[Apologies for duplicate mails] New RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-288 Title: IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region Author: Mirjam Kuehne, Paul Rendek, Sabrina Wilmot, Leo Vegoda Date: 14 June 2002 Format: PDF=90203 TXT=34659 Obsoletes: ripe-104, ripe-105, ripe-136, ripe-140, ripe-159, ripe-185, ripe-234 Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: Short content description ------------------------- The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the publication of the updated RIPE IPv4 policy document, IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region (ripe-288). The revised document includes the following major updates: - Recent policy changes have been incorporated, including the policy allowing assignments for Internet experiments and the sub-allocation policy. - The explanation of how to use the database has been removed as a separate "RIPE Database User Manual: Getting Started" (ripe-253) was published in September 2002. - The document now incorporates the text from "Provider Independent vs Provider Aggregatable Address Space" (ripe-127). - The document now specifies database registration requirements. Following comments from the community, the wording of the document has also been improved to clarify the policy. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE documents in HTML format via our website at the following URL:. http://www.ripe.net/docs/ipv4-policies.html The RIPE Document Store is also 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-288.pdf PDF version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-288.txt plain text version