[sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active

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Subject: [sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active
From: Sam Dickinson <sam at apnic dot net>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:00:38 +1000
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New APNIC policies now active
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On February 2010, APNIC implemented three policy proposals that reached
consensus during APNIC 28 in Beijing, China in August 2009. The APNIC
Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposals during their November
2009 meeting. The three policies implemented are:

    prop-050: IPv4 address transfers

       Policy restrictions on the transfer of registration of IPv4
       address allocations and IPv4 portable address assignments
       between current APNIC account holders have now been removed.


    prop-073: Simplifying allocation/assignment of IPv6 to APNIC
    members with existing IPv4 addresses

       There is now alternative simplified criteria that allows a
       Member with existing IPv4 space to qualify for an appropriately
       sized IPv6 block under the matching IPv6 policy and request that
       IPv6 block through a simple online form.


    prop-075: Ensuring efficient use of historical AS numbers

       APNIC now has the ability to recover unused historical AS
       numbers for eventual reassignment to other APNIC account holders.


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

The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies
ended on 8 February 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
	
    Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia
    Pacific region
    http://www.apnic.net/policy/asn-policy

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


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

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


Regards

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Samantha Dickinson                     email:           sam at apnic dot net
Senior Policy Specialist, APNIC          sip:      sam at voip dot apnic dot net
http://www.apnic.net                   phone:         +61 7 3858 3100