A successful APNIC meeting

Published on: 2009-09-02

APNIC 28 is now officially over. We would like to thank all those who travelled to Beijing to participate and contribute to this very successful event.

We heard from a number of interesting speakers, and there was plenty of lively debate and policy discussion.

The preliminary event participation statistics are as follows:

• Total number of delegates: 272
• Delegates at APNIC Member Meeting: 101
• Economies represented: 25
• APNIC member organizations represented: 51

APNIC held remote participation events via video conference in KualaLumpur, Malaysia and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Attendance figures for theseevents were:

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 12
• Dhaka, Bangladesh: 86 (TBC)

Web-based online participation options included a choice of video,audio and text chat. Participation figures for online remote delegates based on unique IP address were:

• Online remote participation feeds: 288

To read, watch or listen to archives from the meeting, go to: http://meetings.apnic.net/28

Elections

During the APNIC Member Meeting (AMM) in Beijing on Friday, 28 August 2009, Dr Kenny Huang was elected to the NRO NC.

Elections were held for NIR SIG Chair positions:

• NIR SIG Chair: Izumi Okutani
• NIR SIG Co-chair: Wei Zhao

An election was held for Policy SIG Co-Chair

• Policy SIG Co-chair: Terence Zhang

Congratulations to the successful candidates!

Election details are available at: http://meetings.apnic.net/28/elections

Meeting decisions

Policy SIG

Seven policy proposals were discussed. The following proposals reached consensus:

• prop-050: IPv4 address transfers
• prop-073: Simplifying allocation/assignment of IPv6 to APNIC members with existing IPv4 addresses
• prop-074: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks (ASNs) to Regional Internet Registries
• prop-075: Ensuring efficient use of historical AS numbers

The following proposal was returned to the mailing list for further discussion:

• prop-076: Requiring aggregation for IPv6 subsequent allocations

The following proposals were returned to their authors for further consideration:

• prop-077: Proposal to supplement transfer policy of historical IPv4 addresses
• prop-078: Reserving /10 IPv4 address space to facilitate IPv6 deployment

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

MoU signed

APNIC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNNIC (the China Internet Network Information Center).

Meeting sponsors

APNIC offers its deepest thanks to the sponsors of APNIC 28, whose invaluable contributions allowed APNIC to offer a meeting program of a very high standard:

http://meetings.apnic.net/28/sponsorship

Upcoming APNIC meetings

APNIC 29
1-5 March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (with APRICOT 2010)
http://www.apricot2010.net

APNIC 30
23-27 August 2010
Four Seasons Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
http://meetings.apnic.net

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