[apnic-announce] APNIC 14 – Open Policy Meeting Report

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APNIC 14 – Open Policy Meeting Report

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Dear APNIC members and friends,

APNIC’s 14th Open Policy Meeting, held in Kitakyushu, Japan from 3 to 6
September 2002 was another successful meeting. The meeting was very well
attended, with 168 delegates, including APNIC members, representatives 
from
other RIRs and ICANN, and other associates in the Internet community. We
greatly appreciated the support and participation from the delegates, 
which
again illustrated the strong community interest in APNIC meetings.

A summary of the main meeting outcomes is provided below. All 
presentations
have been posted on the meeting website and can be accessed via the 
meeting
programme page at:

   http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/programme


In this report:
   1. ASO Address Council election
   2. Policy decisions
   3. Apster - Issue 4
   4. Meeting sponsors
   5. Meeting evaluation
   6. Next APNIC Meeting
   7. Call for proposals for APNIC 16


1. ASO ADDRESS COUNCIL ELECTION

Mr. Takashi Arano was re-elected as an Asia Pacific region Address 
Council
representative at the ASO meeting, with his new term to run for three 
years
from 1 January 2003. He has been actively making great contributions to 
the
Internet community, not only in Asia Pacific region but also throughout 
the
world, including his tireless efforts in helping to develop the new IPv6
address allocation and assignment policy that has now been adopted by 
all
three Regional Internet Registries.

Details of the Address Council election are at:

   http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/ac


2. POLICY DECISIONS

At APNIC 14, consensus was reached on the policy developments noted 
below.
APNIC will announce full details of all of these developments as the
documentation is completed and the policies are implemented. Minutes 
from
all meeting sessions, including details of the discussions on these
decisions, will be published shortly.

   * NIR criteria and operational policies accepted subjected to the
     Secretariat providing more clarification of DNS issues
     - APNIC will accept applications for new NIRs from 1 December 2002

   * Assignments to be available for critical infrastructure in both IPv4
     and IPv6
     - Definition includes Root DNS, ccTLD, IANA, RIRs/NIRs, but not IXPs
     - Assignment size is /24 for IPv4 and /32 for IPv6
     - note: in the existing IXP policy, the IPv6 assignment size is to 
be
       increased from /64 to /48

   * ASN policy document accepted in principle subject to a final call
     for comments
     - LIRs will be able to assign non-portable ASNs

   * Experimental Internet resource assignments will be available

   * IPv4 policy will be amended to allow LIRs to make allocations
     - Restricted to LIRs only

   * IPv6 addresses to be set aside for documentation purposes
     - The specific range of addresses to be set aside for use in
       documentation examples will be discussed with other RIRs

   * MAIL-FROM to no longer be available as an authentication
     method in maintainer objects


3. APSTER -  ISSUE 4
The forth issue of APNIC’s newsletter, Apster, was released during 
APNIC 14.
This issue features the deployment and future of IPv6 and updates of 
APNIC
meetings and trainings.

Apster is available at;

   http://www.apnic.net/docs/apster/


4. MEETING SPONSORS
APNIC wishes to thank all those organisations that supported the 14th 
Open
Policy Meeting as sponsors. The meeting could not have achieved such 
success
without their valuable and generous contributions.

  * Gold Sponsors
    - Cisco Systems Japan
    - France Telecom
    - Juniper Networks
    - NTT Communications

  * Silver Sponsors
    - China Telecom
    - Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC)
    - Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)

  * Supporting Sponsor
    - Microsoft

Links to our sponsors are available at:

   http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/sponsors


5. MEETING EVALUATION
Your feedback can help us develop the content and organisation of future
meetings. So please take a few minutes to complete the online evaluation
questionnaire at:

   http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/eval-form.html


6. NEXT APNIC MEETING
We are pleased to invite all members and friends of APNIC to attend the 
15th
APNIC Open Policy Meeting, which will be held in conjunction with
APRICOT2003 in Taipei, Taiwan, from 24 – 28 February 2003.

Details of APRICOT 2003 are at:

   http://www.apricot2003.net

Further details of APNIC 15 will be announced on the APNIC website as 
they
become available.


7. CALL FOR PROPOSAL TO HOST APNIC16
We are pleased to call for proposal to host the 16th APNIC Open Policy
Meeting, if your organisation is interested in hosting this meeting, the
call for proposal document is now available at:

   http://www.apnic.net/meetings/cfp

Please lodge your expression of interest as soon as possible. The 
deadline
for detailed submissions is 1 December 2002. For any further inquires 
about
hosting meetings, please contact us by email at <meetings@apnic.net>.

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If you have any questions about APNIC’s Open Policy Meetings please 
contact
by email at <meetings@apnic.net>.


Best regards,

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APNIC Secretariat                              <secretariat@apnic.net>
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)   Tel: +61-7-3858-3100
PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia            Fax: +61-7-3858-3199
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