Creation of local-ir at ripe.net

Hi all,

This is to notify you that a new mailing list is created:

Local Internet Registries <local-ir at ripe.net>

Administrativia for this list should go to <local-ir-request at ripe.net>. 
All message that are send to this list are archived, and will be put in
the document store on a regular bases. 

Purpose of this list
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The list created currently contains all people who have received blocks
of class C addresses from the RIPE NCC, and people who are interested in
issues related to IP number allocation and the involvement of local
registries. 

There are a few actions that came out of the RIPE meeting in Paris:

- start developing 1 European wide IP number template, including some
documentation.  Bob Day of the JNT has volunteered to compose a first
draft, based on the JANET templates and with input from you all.  He and
Daniel will work together on this issue. 

- start thinking about a model for financing local registries.

- this mailing list could be used to discuss difficult IP assignment cases,
experience with address assignments in general, and any other issue that
may arise with delegated registry.  It should be noted that this list is
not appropriate to discuss confidential issues, since the list is
relatively open.