New/Revised Document available: "Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE NCC"

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement
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A new/revised document is available from the RIPE document store:

"Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE
NCC" (ripe-230)

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The "Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE
NCC" aims to provide the necessary information for those who are
considering setting up a Local Internet Registry (LIR) with the RIPE
NCC. In this document, some initial guidelines are given on which
organisations usually set up an LIR. Further, the steps necessary to
set up an LIR are described. Finally, the RIPE NCC IP address
allocation and assignment policies are discussed.


Accessing the RIPE document store
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The RIPE document store is available via anonymous FTP to
ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. 
The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are:

  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-230.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-230.txt  plain text version

You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW.
RIPE-230 is available from the WWW at the following URL:


  http://www.ripe.net/docs/new-lir.html