Dear people, There seems to be some misunderstanding between the usage of assign@ripe.net and ripe-dbm@ripe.net. Please use these two addresses as follows: assign@ripe.net - only for NEW assignments made out of your 193.x block (so, they should not be in the RIPE or NIC database yet) ripe-dbm@ripe.net - all other nets new to the database, and all updates. x.193.in-addr.arpa requests should be send to hostmaster@ripe.net, because there is some additional action on behalf of the NCC needed. We will then forward the objects to ripe-dbm, when all set up. The reason we have a difference between the two is that assign@ripe.net has some additional consistency checking before it will forward to the database, since we found that many people made 192/193 typos, and also we are planning with InterNIC to automatically forward NEW 193 assignments directly to them in exchange format in the future. If a network send in to assign@ripe.net is already present in the NIC or RIPE database, the update is bounced back to the NCC for manual review. In most cases it will be forwarded to ripe-dbm after, but it would be nice if we could keep these kinds of "assignment errors" as we call them, to a minimum. PS contact people send in to either address are not checked, so you can simply include them in assign or ripe-dbm together with the network numbers they belong to. Cheers, -Marten