To reduce confusion over ISP/LIR/etc terminology, perhaps the charter could be stated more simply, along these lines:
“The Policy SIG charter is to develop policies which relate to the management and use of Internet address resources within the Asia Pacific region. …”
My 2c, with best regards,
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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC dg@apnic.net http://www.apnic.net @apnicdg
On 9 May 2019, at 19:53, Sumon Ahmed Sabir wrote:
Thank you very much Aftab and Owen for your constructive feedback. We will definitely consider those views.
If any one has any different perspective please jump in and share your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Sumon
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:52 AM Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Aftab, I think you misread the proposed language.
First, neither the current version nor the proposed version refer to members at all, but to the actions of the APNIC, NIRs, and ISPs. The one change I think should be made there is to replace ISPs with LIRs since not all LIRs are technically ISPs, though
that is certainly the most common case.
As to your “not limited to” or “services related to resources”, I fail to see how that is not addressed by the proposed “…and related services”.
I support the language proposed by Sumon whether or not he chooses to take my NIR suggestion.
Revised text suggest that all members/resource holders in APNIC are ISPs only, I would suggest to make it "APNIC and NIR members or resource holders in Asia Pacific region". Because not all members are resource holders.
Secondly, when you start mentioning topics in the charter then it may create confusion moving forward that only these topics can be covered so how about adding "not limited to" or "services related to resources" or something like that.
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Regards,
Aftab A. Siddiqui
On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 4:31 PM Sumon Ahmed Sabir <sasabir@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Members,
In the last APNIC meeting in Daejoan there was a discussion that there is a perception
That Policy SIG discusses only about “Address Policy”. On the other hand there is a understanding
that Policy SIG covers a wider range of registry issues, RPKI or any other topics that requires a
procedures and rules.
To avoid confusion and to bring clarity in the Policy Charter few proposals came in. That either we can change the Name of the Policy SIG to cover
wider range or to amend the Policy-SIG Charter to bring clarity about the scope of Policy SIG.
After discussions chairs feels that we can make some changes in the SIG Charter to bring clarity:
‘The Policy SIG charter is to develop policies and procedures which relate to the management and
use of Internet address resources by APNIC, NIRs, and ISPs within the Asia Pacific region.”
And here is the possible changes proposed:
“The Policy SIG charter is to develop policies which relate to the management and use of Internet address resources by APNIC, NIRs, and ISPs within
the Asia Pacific region. These include policies for resource allocation, recovery and transfer, and for resource registration within whois, reverse DNS, RPKI and related services.”
Please share your views, comments or suggestions in this regard.