[sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active

[Sam Dickinson <sam@apnic.net>]

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New APNIC policies now active
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On 16 February 2008, APNIC implemented three policy proposals that
reached consensus during APNIC 26 in Christchurch, New Zealand in August
2008. The APNIC Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposals during
their November 2008 meeting. The three proposals implemented are:

    prop-062: Use of final /8

        When the total remaining space in the unallocated APNIC address
        pool reaches a threshold of one /8, the following policies will
        come into force:

          - Each APNIC account holder that meets the criteria for
            an IPv4 allocation will be eligible to request and receive a
            single allocation no larger than the minimum allocation
            size.

          - A /16 will be held in reserve for future uses, as yet
            unforeseen.


    prop-064: Change to assignment policy for AS numbers

        From 1 July 2009, networks requesting a two-byte AS number from
        APNIC must demonstrate that a four-byte only AS number is
        unsuitable.


    prop-066: Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources

        The utilization of historical IPv4 address space will now be
        taken into account when any organization holding historical IPv4
        addresses requests more IPv4 from APNIC.



Updated policy documents
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The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies
has ended. The updated documents are now officially active:

    Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific
    region
    http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy.html

    Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois
    Database
    http://www.apnic.net/policy/historical-resource-policies.html
	
    Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia
    Pacific region
    http://www.apnic.net/policy/asn-policy.html


For more information on the history of the policy proposals, see:

    http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals


Regards

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Samantha Dickinson                     email:           sam@apnic.net
Policy Development Manager, APNIC        sip:      sam@voip.apnic.net
http://www.apnic.net                   phone:         +61 7 3858 3100