New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Short content description ------------------------- "Temporary Special Guidelines for Allocation and Assignment of former class A addresses": In order to encourage a transition to the classless use of former class A address space, the RIPE NCC proposes a temporary test period during which Local Registries and their customers can start to use parts of these addresses. Additional allocation and assignment procedures will apply during this test period. Accessing the RIPE document store --------------------------------- You can access the RIPE document store via the World Wide Web; RIPE-155 is not available from the WWW at this moment, but will be soon, at the following URL: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-155.html The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs. The full filenames of the new documents on the FTP-server are: ripe/docs/ripe-155.ps for the PostScript version ripe/docs/ripe-155.txt for the plain text version 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.