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Dear APNIC members and friends,

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22nd APNIC Open Policy Meeting report

4-8 September 2006 Kaohsiung, Taiwan _____________________________________

Thank you to everyone who contributed to APNIC 22. APNIC particularly thanks the local host, TWNIC for its considerable efforts in ensuring the success of the meeting.

APNIC 22 Open Policy Meeting attendance statistics:

Total number of delegates 157 Delegates at APNIC Member Meeting 104 Economies represented 20 APNIC member organisations represented 25

To read, watch or listen to archives from the meeting, go to:

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22

1. NRO Number Council election ------------------------------ During the APNIC 22 Annual Member Meeting (AMM) in Kaohsiung on Friday 8 September 2006, an election was held for one vacant position on the NRO Number Council. Congratulations to the successful candidate:

Hyun-Joon Kwon

Election details are available at:

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22/nc

2. Meeting decisions --------------------

* Policy SIG

Eight policy proposals were discussed. The following proposals reached consensus and were subsequently approved at the APNIC Member Meeting. These proposals are now subject to a "last call" for comments:

prop-033-v001: End site assignment policy for IPv6 prop-035-v002: IPv6 portable assignment for multihoming prop-038-v001: Modified lame DNS policy proposal prop-041-v001: IPv6 assignment size to critical infrastructure

The following proposal reached partial consensus. Consensus elements of this proposal were approved at the APNIC Member Meeting and are now subject to a "last call" for comments.

prop-039-v001: A proposal to improve reachability of new IANA blocks

The following proposals did not reach consensus:

prop-034-v001: IPv6 portable assignment for end user organisations prop-036-v001: Proposal to allow end sites to receive IPv6 allocations prop-037-v001: Deprecation of email updates for APNIC Registry and whois data

- A working group will be created to further discuss the issues raised in prop-037-v001.

For more information, please see:

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

* AMM

Revisions to both member and non-member account fees were discussed. It was decided to continue discussions on APNIC fee structures in the APNIC fees working group.

4. Meeting sponsors ------------------- APNIC thanks the sponsors of APNIC 22, whose valuable contributions allowed APNIC to offer a meeting programme of a very high standard:

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22/sponsors

5. Upcoming APNIC meetings --------------------------

APNIC 23/APRICOT 2007 27 February - 2 March 2007 Bali, Indonesia

APNIC 24/SANOG 1 3-7 September 2007 New Delhi, India

APNIC 25 25-29 February 2008 Taipei, Taiwan

APNIC 26 Call for proposals now open http://www.apnic.net/meetings/cfp

_______________________________________________________________________ Savenaca Vocea email: save@apnic.net Policy Development Manager, APNIC sip: save@voip.apnic.net http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100