<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <tt>Dear Colleagues, </tt> <tt>At the RIPE 59 Meeting in Lisbon in October 2009, the RIPE NCC announced that it would undertake a project to improve the language of various RIPE Policy Documents, without changing their substance or meaning. This project is aimed at improving the clarity and readability of RIPE Documents. For more information, see: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/">http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/ </a></tt> <tt> </tt> <tt>The first RIPE Document to be revised was "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures". The revised document is now available at: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html">http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-496.html</a></tt> <tt> </tt> <tt>The second document for review will be ripe-481, “IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy”. More information about this will follow shortly </tt> <tt> </tt> <tt>Kind Regards Emilio Madaio Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC</tt> </body> </html>