[sig-policy] Report on APNIC 27 Policy SIG decisions

[Sam Dickinson <sam@apnic.net>]

Dear SIG members

Below is a summary report of the status of proposals following the 
Policy SIG held during APNIC 27 today.


The following proposals were abandoned following a lack of community 
support:

    prop-060: Change in the criteria for the recognition of NIRs in
              the APNIC region

    prop-063: Reducing timeframe of IPv4 allocations from twelve to
              six months

    prop-070: Maximum IPv4 allocation size


The following proposals were withdrawn:

    prop-067: A simple transfer proposal

    prop-068: Inter-RIR transfer policy


The following proposals reached consensus:

    prop-050: IPv4 address transfers (with modifications to be detailed
              in a subsequent email to this list)

    prop-069: Global policy proposal for the allocation of IPv4 blocks
              to Regional Internet Registries


Next steps
----------

1. The SIG Chairs report on the status of proposals at the APNIC Member
   Meeting (AMM).

2. Proposals that reach consensus at both the Policy SIG and the AMM
   are then returned to the Policy SIG mailing list for an eight-week
   comment period.

3. If no substantial objections are received during the final comment
   period, the proposals are deemed to have reached consensus at each
   stage of the policy development process. At this point, the SIG
   Chairs forward the proposals to the APNIC Executive Council (EC) for
   endorsement.

4. If the APNIC EC endorses the proposals, the APNIC Secretariat begins
   work on implementation of the proposals. Implementation usually
   takes a minimum of three months, but may take more depending on the
   implementation complexity.


For more information, please see:

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

All presentation material from today's Policy SIG are available at:

    http://www.apnic.net/meetings/27/program/policy

For more information on the policy development process, see:

    http://www.apnic.net/policy/policy-development.html


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