[AusNOG] New APNIC policies now active

[Srinivas Chendi]

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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
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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
Sunny
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Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi                 email:       sunny at apnic.net
Senior Community Engagement Specialist  sip:    sunny at voip.apnic.net
South Asia Liaison Officer              msn:       sunn3 at hotmail.com
http://www.apnic.net                    ph/fx:    +61 7 3858 3189/99
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