New Document available: RIPE-234

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement
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A set of new documents is available from the RIPE Document Store:

IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies in the RIPE NCC
Service Region (ripe-234)

IPv4 First Allocation Request Form (ripe-235)

Supporting Notes for the IPv4 First Allocation Request Form (ripe-236)

New Values of the "status:" Attribute for Inetnum Objects
(LIR-PARTITIONED) (ripe-239)

IPv4 Additional Allocation Request Form (ripe-240)

Mergers, Acquisitions, Takeovers and Closures of Organisations
Operating an LIR (ripe-241)


Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures
(ripe-245)


Short content description -------------------------

This set of IPv4 policy documents replaces the now obsolete ripe-185
(European Internet Registry Policies and Procedures). 

Additionally, we have created specific forms for Local Internet
Registries to request a first allocation and additional allocations.



Accessing the RIPE document store
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All documents are on-line at the following URLs:


  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv4-policies.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/first-allocation.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/first-allocation-support.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/lir-partitioned.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/add-allocation.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/mergers.html
  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/asn-assignment.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-234.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-234.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-235.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-235.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-236.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-236.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-239.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-239.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-240.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-240.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-241.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-241.txt  plain text version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-245.ps   PostScript version
  ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-245.txt  plain text version
  
Kind Regards,

RIPE NCC Document Announcement Service