_______________________________________________________________________ New APNIC policies now active _______________________________________________________________________ Today, the APNIC Secretariat has implemented two policy proposals that reached consensus during APNIC 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2010. The APNIC Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposals during its May 2010 meeting. The two policies implemented are: - prop-080: Removal of IPv4 prefix exchange policy The policy that previously permitted resource holders to return three or more non-contiguous IPv4 address blocks and have the prefixes replaced with a single, larger, contiguous block has been removed. - prop-082: Removing aggregation criteria for IPv6 initial allocations The initial allocation criteria that required an LIR to advertise its IPv6 connectivity as a single aggregated address allocation has been removed and replaced by a stronger recommendation with regard to the aggregation of IPv6 routes. A third proposal that reached consensus at APNIC 29 will not be implemented until November 2010 due to its complexity: - prop-079: Abuse contact information Updated policy documents ------------------------ The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies ended on 21 June 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 For more information, see the history of these policy proposals at: http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals Regards Sunny ____________________________________________________________________ Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi email: sunny(a)apnic.net Senior Community Engagement Specialist sip: sunny(a)voip.apnic.net South Asia Liaison Officer msn: sunn3(a)hotmail.com http://www.apnic.net ph/fx: +61 7 3858 3189/99 ____________________________________________________________________ Join us for APNIC 30 Gold Coast. Visit - http://meetings.apnic.net/30