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Re: [sig-nir] prop-054: NIR operational policy document revision
Do you have further comments on Terry's response, Shin?
Comments on other NIR are also welcome.
Feel free to express questions, comments, or even a simple expression
of support is also a useful input :-).
izumi
Terry Manderson wrote:
> Hi Shin,
>
>> Shin wrote:
>> - Do you support moving the technical descriptions of managing
>> reverse DNS zone out of 'Operational policies for National Internet
>> Registries in the APNIC region' and onto the APNIC website?
>> Currently I cannot find the equivalent part of section 3.4 of
>> APNIC-103-v001 in the web page stated in the proposal:
>> http://www.apnic.net/services/dns_guide.html
>> Unless APNIC clearly describes all required procedures in the page
>> before Policy SIG in APNIC 25, it is difficult to support this part.
>> The best I could bend backward is that APNIC posts the content of
>> the addendum to the web page to this mailing list.
>> Without that, it could be blind approval for non-existent procedure.
>
> I will endeavour to create a draft of that page, or furnish the
> information that will be provided on that url to the list before the
> meeting.
>
> However you can expect that it would simply reflect the preferred
> methods for updating the DNS, those being MyAPNIC and the XML/REST
> API. We clearly need to be careful about releasing the API information
> as it isn't yet a member wide service.
>
>> In the Disadvantages: part in the Pros/Cons section, | To ensure
>> that NIRs have enough time to adapt to the changes, | the APNIC
>> Secretariat will commit to a six-month notice period | between
>> announcing changes to the system and expected | implementation
>> by NIRs.
>> I prefer to change this to: To ensure that NIRs have enough time to
>> adapt to the changes, the APNIC Secretariat will commit to at least
>> six-month notice period between announcing changes to the system
>> and expected implementation by NIRs.
>
> Given that our development process is transparent, such that we are
> quite overt about upcoming work in the secretariat that may affect the
> NIRs. I'm guessing that your concern directly relates to your ability
> implement in 6 months assuming that you hadn't heard of it previously.
> So in applying this to future (not already scheduled) changes..
>
> How does this sound as an alternative?
> -----
> To ensure that NIRs have enough time to be both aware of the changes
> and adapt their systems to the changes, the APNIC Secretariat will
> commit to the following notice periods:
> 1) Notification of development or work-in-progress of three(3) to
> Six(6) months, prior to:
> 2) A six(6) month notice period to implementation by the NIR.
> -----
>
>> The notice period can be extended upon request from APNIC or an NIR.
>
> I think I would find this acceptable if the request came with
> supporting reasons why the request needs to be extended, such that the
> reason for extension is in the best interests of the common good for
> continuous improvement or a direct conflict with another APNIC
> operational change at that time.
>
> Cheers
> Terry
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