Dear All, As announced earlier, the 28th RIPE meeting will be held in Amsterdam from 24 untill 26 September 1997 at the Park Plaza in Amsterdam, the Netherlands . Included below is some info on hotels and obtaining VISA. HOTELS ------ We would like to inform you that the hotels in Amsterdam usually get booked quite fast in September, so you should be quick to make a reservation. More information on finding hotels in Amsterdam and Amsterdam in general can be found at: http://www.bookings.nl/cgi-bin/homepage.pl http://www.xxlink.nl/cities/amsterdam http://channels.nl/index2.html http://www.agenda.nl/medialink/amsterdam/hotelguide.html http://www.nbt.nl/NBT-amst-index.html http://city.net/countries/netherlands/amsterdam/ VISA: ----- Getting visa generally takes more time then one expects, we would therefore like to suggest you apply for a visa as fast as possible. On request, we can send you an invitation. If you want us to send an invitation, please tell us how many days and which days you are planning to stay. If, after the RIPE meeting, you want to stay some additional days we can invite you for some 'technical meetings' after the RIPE meeting ;-). Furthermore, please also give us your full name, birth date and passport number. If we mention these data in our invitation to you, it could facilitate getting the visa. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE NCC Meeting Registrations