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Dear colleagues

The APNIC Secretariat has now implemented the following policy proposals:

prop-032: Four-byte AS number policy prop-038: Amending APNIC's lame DNS reverse delegation policy

------------------------------------ prop-032: Four-byte AS number policy ------------------------------------

APNIC has began the transition to allocating four-byte AS numbers. The policy specifies three important dates:

1 January 2007 Two-byte ASNs assigned by default Four-byte ASNs assigned on request

1 January 2009 Four-byte ASNs assigned by default Two-byte ASNs assigned on request

1 January 2010 No distinction made between two-byte and four-byte ASNs

The comment period for the draft document incorporating this policy has now finished and the updated document is now officially active:

Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia Pacific region http://www.apnic.net/policy/asn-policy.html

For more information on the history of the four-byte AS number policy proposal, please see:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-032-v002.html

------------------------------------------------------------- prop-038: Amending APNIC's lame DNS reverse delegation policy -------------------------------------------------------------

On 1 January 2007, APNIC's lame DNS reverse delegation policy was modified to make the definition of lame DNS consistent with the definitions used by the other RIRs. Under the revised policy, if a delegated nameserver for a domain fails to return a valid authoritative answer for the domain's SOA, it will be considered to be lame. The process for monitoring and removing lame reverse DNS delegations has also been simplified.

APNIC's lame DNS procedures are detailed at:

http://www.apnic.net/services/rev-del/lame-del/

For more information on the history of the lame DNS reverse delegation policy proposal, please see:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-038-v001.html

Regards -------------------------------------------------------------------- Son Tran email: son@apnic.net Policy Development Manager, APNIC sip: son@voip.apnic.net http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100 fax: +61 7 3858 3199 --------------------------------------------------------------------