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Welcome to the Policy SIG

6 Sep 2006APNIC 22, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Policy SIG

• Charter– To develop policies and procedures which

relate to the management and use ofInternet address resources by APNIC,NIRs, and ISPs within the Asia Pacificregion

• Chairs:– Kenny Huang– Toshiyuki Hosaka– Eugene Li

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Policy documentation

• Current policies– http://www.apnic.net/policy/

• Policy proposals– http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals– At APNIC 22

• 8 policy proposals for this SIG• Submission to Mailing list by 7 August

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Facilitating the process

• Policy development facilitation– APNIC secretariat is first contact– SIG chairs check suitability– Discussion in appropriate mailing list– Discussion in upcoming SIG and AMM

• Want a policy change?– Discuss with peers– Submit a proposal using the form

• Don’t need to be a member to participate• Secretariat happy to assist if needed

– http://www.apnic.net/cgi-bin/policy_proposal.pl

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Your involvement

• Awareness of current policy discussion– http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/– Subscribe to post comments to the list– Attend APNIC meetings– Access via remote participation– Read minutes and meeting report

• Seek secretariat assistance

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Housekeeping

• Speakers - please speak slowly andclearly

• Session is being Webcast• Remote participation is possible (jabber

chat)• Open participation• Please use the mic to speak• Decisions by consensus (not a vote)• Approach common agreement and

compromise

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Open action - Policy SIG

pol-21-001• Chair to move the discussion of the HD-ratio for IPv4

networks proposal (prop-020-v001) to the mailing list for afurther month to seek consensus and make a decision.

pol-21-002• Pending approval at each remaining stage of the policy

proposal process, APNIC Secretariat to implement theproposal establishing a transition timeline for assigning 4-byte AS numbers (prop-032-v002)

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Open action - DB SIG

db-21-001• Database SIG Chair to post an item to the Database

mailing list giving the status of proposal prop-019-v001, "A proposal for whois database query", andasking for community input on whether to close theproposal or continue with it.

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Open action - DNS SIG

dns-20-003• Secretariat to gather statistics about the extent of

undelegated domains and report back to the DNS SIGat APNIC 21.

dns-20-001• Pending approval at each remaining stage of the

policy proposal process, Secretariat to implementproposal [prop-030-v001].