New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document is available from the RIPE document store. This document is the update to ripe-160 document. Short content description ------------------------- This document aims to provide the necessary information for those who are considering setting up a Local Internet Registry (LIR in short) with the RIPE NCC. In this document, some initial guidelines are given on which organisations usually set up a LIR. Further, the steps necessary to set up a LIR are described. Finally, the RIPE NCC's IP address first assignment and allocation policy is discussed. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- 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-212.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-212.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-212 is not available from the WWW at this moment, but will be soon, at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-212.html