Dear NIC people, some of our local registries are getting confused about recent direct network number assignments from nic.ddn.mil. Below you see the third message of the kind this week. I have sent you a list of the countries we cover on July 24th. Is there any special reason for this? In order to clarify things even further I append two lists. The first is the list of countries we definitely cover. Please do not assign network numbers for use in these countries! This defeats route aggregation (CIDR) and causes considerable confusion. The second list is a list of countries which have ties to RIPE or countries within RIPE. These ties very frequently cause common networking activities in these countries and countries within RIPE. In such cases RIPE and the RIPE NCC will be happy to coordinate and provide service if so requested. In short: we are willing to help with these on request either from you or someone within those countries. We will coordinate any registry activity concerning countries in the second list with you. If you have any questions about the list or the procedures or any particular case, please contact us at <ncc@ripe.net>. We would also like to hear quickly if users have problems with local registries in our rewgion. Regards Daniel Karrenberg NCC Manager ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 13:47:43 +0100 From: Nandor Horvath <horvath@sztaki.hu> To: ncc@ripe.net Subject: Class C net number requests Dear Daniel and Marten, As far as I know the NIC told, that all the European IP number requests would be handeld by RIPE, and/or the appropriate national NIC. I get more and more requests to register domain names, but then they state, that they do not need network numbers, because they got it already. It turned out, that they all got it directly from the US NIC, the last such a response was signed by Jean Gallagher. Obviously the system, that if the US NIC gets a request from Europe, they would send it to the RIPE NCC, does not work properly. Any ideas? Nandor ------- End of Forwarded Message List of RIPE countries: AD ANDORRA AL ALBANIA AM ARMENIA AT AUSTRIA AZ AZERBAIJAN BA BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA BE BELGIUM BG BULGARIA BY BELARUS CH SWITZERLAND CS CZECHOSLOVAKIA CY CYPRUS DE GERMANY DK DENMARK EE ESTONIA ES SPAIN FI FINLAND FR FRANCE GB UNITED KINGDOM GE GEORGIA GI GIBRALTAR GR GREECE HR CROATIA (local name: Hrvatska) HU HUNGARY IE IRELAND IL ISRAEL IS ICELAND IT ITALY KZ KAZAKHSTAN LI LIECHTENSTEIN LT LITHUANIA LU LUXEMBOURG LV LATVIA MC MONACO MD MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF MS MONTSERRAT MT MALTA NL NETHERLANDS NO NORWAY PL POLAND PT PORTUGAL RO ROMANIA RU RUSSIAN FEDERATION SE SWEDEN SI SLOVENIA SM SAN MARINO SU USSR TJ TAJIKISTAN TR TURKEY UA UKRAINIAN SSR UZ UZBEKISTAN VA VATICAN CITY STATE (HOLY SEE) YU YUGOSLAVIA List of countries we are willing to help with: AE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AN NETHERLANDS ANTILLES AW ARUBA BH BAHRAIN CI COTE D'IVOIRE DZ ALGERIA EG EGYPT FK FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) FO FAROE ISLANDS GF FRENCH GUIANA GL GREENLAND IO BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY KW KUWAIT LB LEBANON MA MOROCCO OM OMAN PF FRENCH POLYNESIA QA QATAR SA SAUDI ARABIA SR SURINAME TF FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES TN TUNISIA VG VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH)