1. 1 Welcome to the Policy SIG 6 Sep 2006 APNIC 22, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2. 2 Policy SIG Charter –To develop policies and procedures which relate to the management and use of Internet address resources by APNIC, NIRs, and ISPs within the Asia Pacific region Chairs: –Kenny Huang –Toshiyuki Hosaka –Eugene Li

3. 3 Policy documentation Current policies –http://www.apnic.net/policy/http://www.apnic.net/policy/ Policy proposals –http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposalshttp://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals –At APNIC 22 8 policy proposals for this SIG Submission to Mailing list by 7 August

4. 4 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.plhttp://www.apnic.net/cgi-bin/policy_proposal.pl

5. 5 Your involvement Awareness of current policy discussion –http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/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

6. 6 Housekeeping Speakers - please speak slowly and clearly 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

7. 7 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 a further 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 the proposal establishing a transition timeline for assigning 4- byte AS numbers (prop-032-v002)

8. 8 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", and asking for community input on whether to close the proposal or continue with it.prop-019- v001

9. 9 Open action - DNS SIG dns-20-003 Secretariat to gather statistics about the extent of undelegated domains and report back to the DNS SIG at APNIC 21. dns-20-001 Pending approval at each remaining stage of the policy proposal process, Secretariat to implement proposal [prop-030-v001].