<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">[Apologies for duplicate emails]</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br></span></b></div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>RIPE NCC has initiated a soft launch of phase one of RIPE Policy 563: "Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE Database". </div><div>All facilities to provide abuse contact information for organisations registered in the RIPE Database are be in production state. Please see the announcement sent earlier to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group mailing list (<a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/anti-abuse-wg/2013-March/002226.html">http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/anti-abuse-wg/2013-March/002226.html</a>). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Kaveh Ranjbar</div><div>Database Group Manager</div><div>RIPE NCC</div></body></html>