An action on me from RIPE 19 is to bring up for discussion the issue of training for Local IRs. In fact, this was mentioned at the first meeting of the RIPE NCC Contributors' Forum in September. It was proposed that, as an incentive to get people to pay their dues for the operation of the NCC, they would be entitled to attend a course on the running of a local IP registry. This idea was aimed mainly at new providers in Europe, in order to get them trained up and paid up at roughly the same time. I've spoken to Daniel Karrenberg about this, and he sees no reason why such courses could not be offered to all paid-up contributors to the NCC. If they're anything like the PRIDE courses, they could be of great benefit to many of us. I'd be glad to hear your views on this proposal for training of local IRs. If you think it's a good idea, maybe you could suggest some topic headings and reading materials for the course. One suggestion is that many of the course materials could be consolidated by means of WWW. Is it reasonable to assume that the target audience would have WWW access? Cheers. Mike Norris train