APNIC seeks final editorial comments on the following draft policy document:

----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois Database -----------------------------------------------------------------------

This draft gathers all policies that apply to historical Internet resources into a single document.

The draft document, which is now provisionally active, is available at:

http://www.apnic.net/docs/drafts/draft-historical-resource-policies.txt

The document includes two new policy proposals that were adopted by consensus at APNIC 17 and approved by the Executive Council on 14 May 2004:

- The protection of historical Internet resource records in the APNIC Whois Database [prop-018-v001] - The recovery of unused historical address space [prop-017-v001]

Details of the original proposals and links to discussions are available at:

http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-017-v001.html http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-018-v001.html

The document also integrates two existing policies:

- The "No Questions Asked" prefix return policy (previously documented in APNIC-072) - Policies for the transfer of historical Internet resources (previously documented in APNIC-113)

Nature of the document review ----------------------------- This is an editorial review only. The APNIC community has already reached consensus on the policy issues which are to implemented.

Therefore, during the comment period, interested parties may:

- object to the draft document on the grounds that it does not properly reflect the consensus decision reached in the Policy Review Process; - suggest improvements of any aspect of the document; - request that an additional call for comment be made to allow more consideration of substantial revisions.

Deadline for comments ------------------- Your comments are requested by 14 January 2004. Please send your comments to the sig-db mailing list. Details at:

http://www.apnic.net/community/lists

Regards ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------