[sig-policy]Final call for comments: [prop-006-v001] - Supporting histor
APNIC welcomes comments, questions, and suggestions on the following policy
proposal:
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Final call for comments: [prop-006-v001]
"Supporting historical resource transfer"
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This is the final call for comments on policy proposal [prop-006-v001]
"Supporting historical resource transfer".
This proposal was presented at APNIC 16 and the following consensus was
reached:
"The SIG accepted by consensus the proposal to allow transfers
of historical resources to APNIC members. Under this proposal
there will be no technical review or approval, but the holder
of the historical resource must be verified and the recipient
of the transfer must be an APNIC member. Existing historical
resource holders will still be able to update their information
as previously."
This proposal is now submitted to the sig-policy 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 Address Policy SIG 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: 20 November 2003
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Proposal details
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It is proposed that measures be considered which will, over time, bring
historical resource registrations into the current policy framework. A
specific measure proposed is to allow historical resources which are not
required by their registered holder to be easily transferred to
organisations which hold current agreements with APNIC, on the understanding
that those resources will then be considered "current" and therefore subject
to the appropriate policies and agreements.
Importantly, it is proposed that these resource transfers should be
recognised and registered by APNIC without the requirement for technical
review or approval. The only conditions placed upon a transfer would be:
that the holder of the historical resource is verified and registered; and
that both parties give explicit consent to a transfer.
It is noted that APNIC will not review any agreements between the parties to
a transfer, and will exert no control over the type of agreement which may
be made.
* Implementation
Four specific steps will need to be taken, in sequence, in order to process
a transfer under this policy:
a. validation and registration of the existing holder;
b. verification of their intention to transfer a resource;
c. verification of the recipient's consent to receive a
transfer; and
d. registration of the transferred resource.
APNIC procedures already include well established processes for validating
historical resource registrations, including documentation, request forms,
and statutory declaration/indemnification forms (step a above). An
additional transfer form would be developed for historical resource holders
to request a transfer to a specific party, identified as a current APNIC
member (step b).
It is noted that an organisation wishing to receive a transfer must be a
member of APNIC prior to the lodgement of a transfer request form. This new
member organisation would not be required to pay the "Resource Request
Processing Fee" in order to receive a transfer (however it would have to pay
that fee at a later time in order to submit a conventional resource request
to APNIC).
On receipt of a validated request form (step b above), APNIC will contact
the member organisation named as recipient, to verify that they wish to
receive the resource (step c). An appropriate interface could be developed
within MyAPNIC to support this process, however this is not likely to be
required initially.
Finally, APNIC would register the transferred resource and notify the
registered holder, as it does in the case of any normal resource allocation
(step c).
It is noted that resources transferred under this policy would thereafter be
subject to the provisions of all normal address management policies.
Specifically: the use of transferred resources would need to be documented
as a part of current resource holdings in any future APNIC address requests;
and the transferred resources would be considered in the assessment of the
APNIC membership tier of the organisation, on the renewal of their
membership.
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References
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Proposal details including full text of proposal, presentations, links to
relevant meeting minutes, and links to mailing list discussions are
available at:
http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-006-v001.html
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