Dear Colleagues, As announced by RIPE Chair Rob Blokzijl on 2 July 2003, and per the decisions made by the community at RIPE 45 in Barcelona, changes were made to the RIPE Working Groups including: - the LIR WG being reformed into two new working groups: o the RIPE NCC Services WG o the RIPE Address Policy WG - the Tools WG being merged into the RIPE NCC Services WG New mailing lists were also created for the new WGs. All subscribers to the (old) LIR WG list were subscribed to both of the two new lists and subscribers to the Tools WG list were subscribed to the new RIPE NCC Services list. Please note that on 31 July, this will change. The (old) LIR WG mailing list will be deactivated and cross posting of messages to the new lists will cease. Individuals interested in these new WGs are encouraged to subscribe/unsubscribe to the appropriate list(s) before this date. Subscriptions can be managed from the interface found at: <http://www.ripe.net/mailman/> Regards, -- leo vegoda RIPE NCC Registration Services Manager