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Dear colleagues

This is the final call for comments on policy proposal "prop-049: IANA policy for allocation of ASN blocks to RIRs".

This proposal was presented at APNIC 24 and was accepted by consensus.

The proposal is now 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 Chair of the Policy SIG will ask the Executive Council to endorse the proposal for implementation.

* Send all comments and questions to: sig-policy@apnic.net * Deadline for comments: 23 November 2007

Proposal details ----------------

This is a proposal to have a global policy for the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to receive blocks of Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

This codifies existing practice and the IANA was supportive of it.

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

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-049-v001.html

Toshi, Jian, and randy