1. Public Policy Forum Foro Público de Políticas Fórum Público de Políticas co-Chairs: Max Larson Henry Nicolás Antoniello

2. Public Policy Forum Open to any person interested in the subject matter. Analysis of the discussions considered at the Public Policy List (draft published in the list at least 4 weeks prior to the Public Policy Forum ). Decisions made based on consensus.

3. What does Consensus means here? In LACNIC, a policy proposal reaches consensus, when a significant majority supports it after a wide discussion and, there are no unanswered technical objections.

4. Public Policy Forum Following the Public Policy Forum, the Public Policy Forum Chairs may take three different actions in relation to each policy proposal presented at the Forum: If consensus is attained, the policy shall be published on the Public Policy List for the reception of public comments during a period of 45 days. If consensus is not attained, the policy may be returned to the Public Policy List for further discussion. If consensus is not attained, the policy may be abandoned and removed from the list of policies under discussion by the LACNIC community.

5. Public Policy Forum A policy that is returned to the Public Policy List for further discussion and that is not reviewed nor presented at the following Public Policy Forum will be automatically abandoned after the Public Policy Forum. Opportunities will be offered for presenting issues of interest to the Public Policy Forum.

6. Remote participation Remote participation information Video/Audio streaming & chat: http://www.lacnic.net/sp/eventos/lacnicxv/participacion.html Twitter: #LACNICXV

7. Who can participate? Everyone in this room or chat room can participate in the discussion with their opinion. Alternatively, you can post your questions in the chat room. Everyone in this room or chat room can show support or not, for a given proposal when asked by the chairs. Everyone in this room may vote (in favor or against) a policy when asked by the chairs.

8. When speaking at the microphone Form a line. Please state your name and affiliation. Speak slowly; the session is been translated. Translation equipment is available at the entrance.

9. Today agenda (May 18, 2011) 11:00 am - Forum Opening and General Agenda 11:05 am - Policy Chairs Update 11:15 am - Policies under discussion at other RIRs / Sofía Silva - LACNIC 11:30 am - RIPE Update / Andrew de la Haye 11:40 am - ARIN Update / John Curran 11:50 am - APNIC Update / Germán Valdez 12:00 pm - AfriNIC Update / Hisham Ibrahim (video conference) 12:10 pm - ASO Update / Francisco Obispo 12:20 pm - NRO Update / Raúl Echeberría - Chair NRO

10. Policy Update co-Chairs: Max Larson Henry Nicolás Antoniello

11. Since last forum… (LACNIC XIV, Sao Paulo, BR) Policies that reached consensus and were then ratified by LACNIC board: LAC-2009-09 Modification: 2.3.3.3. Direct Allocations to Internet Service Providers LAC-2010-03 Inclusion of ASN in the Whois when available LAC-2010-05 Initial allocation and assignment of IPv4 addresses for ISPs LAC-2010-06 Assignment to End Users with need of interconnection Policies that did not reached consensus and returned to the PPML: LAC-2010-04 Global Policy for IPv4 Allocation by the IANA post exhaustion