[sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active

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Subject: [sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active
From: Sam Dickinson <sam at apnic dot net>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:46:04 +1000
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New APNIC policies now active
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Today, the APNIC Secretariat has implemented two policy proposals that
reached consensus during APNIC 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February
2010.

The APNIC Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposals during its May
2010 meeting.

The two policies implemented are:

    - prop-080: Removal of IPv4 prefix exchange policy

          The policy that previously permitted resource holders to
          return three or more non-contiguous IPv4 address blocks and
          have the prefixes replaced with a single, larger, contiguous
          block has been removed.


    - prop-082: Removing aggregation criteria for IPv6 initial
                allocations

          The initial allocation criteria that required an LIR to
          advertise its IPv6 connectivity as a single aggregated
          address allocation has been removed and replaced by a
          stronger recommendation with regard to the aggregation of
          IPv6 routes.


A third proposal that reached consensus at APNIC 29 will not be
implemented until November 2010 due to its complexity:

    - prop-079: Abuse contact information


Updated policy documents
------------------------

The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies
ended on 21 June 2010. The updated documents are now officially active:

    - Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific
      region
      http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy

    - IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy
      http://www.apnic.net/policy/ipv6-address-policy

    - Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois
      Database
      http://www.apnic.net/policy/historical-resource-policies


For more information, see the history of these policy proposals at:

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


Regards
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_____________________________________________________________________
Samantha Dickinson                     email:           sam at apnic dot net
Senior Policy Specialist, APNIC          sip:      sam at voip dot apnic dot net
http://www.apnic.net                   phone:         +61 7 3858 3100