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This is the final call for comments on policy proposal "prop-097: Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA".

This proposal was presented at APNIC 31 and was accepted by consensus.

The proposal is now being submitted to the Policy SIG mailing list for an eight-week discussion period. At the end of that period, if consensus appears to have been achieved, the Policy SIG Chair will ask the Executive Council to endorse the proposal for implementation.

* Send all comments and questions to: <sig-policy at apnic dot net> * Deadline for comments: 26 April 2011

Proposal summary - ----------------

This proposal describes the process that IANA will follow to allocate IPv4 resources to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) after the central pool of addresses is exhausted.

The processes for how IPv4 space may be placed in the IANA Recovered IPv4 Pool is out of the scope of this proposal.

Proposal details including the full text of the proposal, presentations, links to relevant meeting archives and links to mailing list discussions are available at:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-097

Regards

Guarab, Terence, and Andy