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New APNIC policies now active _______________________________________________________________________

Today, 9 August 2011, APNIC implements two policy proposals that reached consensus during APNIC 31 in Hong Kong during February 2011.

The two policy proposals implemented are:

prop-083 Alternative criteria for subsequent IPv6 allocations

This proposal enables current APNIC account holders with existing IPv6 allocations to receive subsequent IPv6 allocations from APNIC under additional criteria.

prop-095 Inter-RIR IPv4 address transfer proposal

This is a proposal to allow and define a mechanism for the transfer of IPv4 address space between APNIC account holders and organizations in other RIR region(s), providing that the counterpart RIR has a policy that allows transfers of address space with APNIC account holders.

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

The two policy changes required edits to three documents. The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies ended on 8 August 2011. The following updated documents are now officially active:

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

APNIC transfer, merger, acquisition, and takeover policy http://www.apnic.net/policy/transfer-policy

APNIC guidelines for IPv6 allocation and assignment requests http://www.apnic.net/criteria/ipv6-guidelines

For more information on the history of the policy proposals, see:

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

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