New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-160 Title: Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE NCC Author: P. Caslav, R. Muit Date: 11 March, 1998 Format: PS=242055 TXT=49624 Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: Updated by: See also: Short content description ------------------------- This document aims to provide the necessary information for those who are considering setting up a Local Internet Registry (IR) with the RIPE NCC. In this document, first some guidelines are given on which organisations usually set up a Local IR set up a Local IR 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-160.ps PostScript version ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-160.txt plain text version You can also access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW. RIPE-160 at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-160.html Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to <mail-server@ripe.net> with "send HELP" in the body text.