assignment policy is documented in:
        
        RIPE NCC members can request AS Numbers using the
form available in the LIR Portal or at:
        
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        Information about the RIPE Database can be found at:
        http://www.ripe.net/db/index.html
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Peering requests: hostmaster@intl.telstra.com
Abuse complaints: abuse@intl.telstra.com
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Customers may set the following communities on prefixes:

1290:150 = Internal backup = paths to this prefix heard
on this session are de-preferred over ones heard
from another session with same customer.

1290:999 = External backup = paths to this prefix heard
from customer are de-preferred over ones heard
from our peers or upstreams.

Prefixes tagged with these communities will not be announced
to upstreams unnless they are only known via this one path.
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Please send reports about UBM to abuse@intl.telstra.com
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Please send peering requests to: peering@intl.telstra.com
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Please send reports about UBM to abuse@intl.telstra.com
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Please send peering requests to: peering@intl.telstra.com
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The above information was collected from whois.ripe.net, using
object "AS1290" on July 15, 2010