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Dear colleagues

The APNIC EC (Executive Council) endorsed the following proposals at its meeting on 20 November 2008. Minutes from this meeting will be available after they have been adopted at the December 2008 EC meeting.

prop-055: Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space

prop-062: Use of final /8

prop-064: Change to assignment policy for AS numbers

prop-066: Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources

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

The first proposal in the list above, "Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space", has now been adopted by all five RIRs. It is now in 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 2009.

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