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Dear colleagues

The APNIC EC (Executive Council) endorsed the following proposals at its meeting on 18 November 2009. Minutes from this meeting will be available after they have been adopted at the December 2009 EC meeting.

prop-050: IPv4 address transfers

prop-073: Simplifying allocation/assignment of IPv6 to APNIC members with existing IPv4 addresses

prop-074: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries

prop-075: Ensuring efficient use of historical AS numbers

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

Once the proposal prop-074, "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks (ASNs) to Regional Internet Registries", has been adopted by all five RIRs, it can proceed to the final stages of the global policy development process. For more information on the global policy development, see:

http://www.nro.net/policy/index.html#global

The three remaining policies in the above list will be implemented by the APNIC Secretariat during the first quarter 2010.

For a detailed history of the endorsed proposals, see:

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

Regards

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