Policy Series: Community-led policy process stands the test of time
Anne Lord helps answer a question that is often asked about APNIC Policy: how was the current policy process created in the first place?
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Policy Series: Seamless transition down to effective collaboration
With 2-byte ASN exhaustion rapidly approaching, Geoff Huston helped develop a policy and plan that successfully transitioned the Internet to 4-byte ASNs.
Policy Series: A smarter minimum allocation
Rajesh Chharia’s 2008 policy proposal to lower the minimum IPv4 allocation to a /22 helped startup ISPs across the region begin their Internet journey.
ITU Plenipotentiary Conference sees little middle ground
APNIC’s Adam Gosling reports from the halfway point of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Policy Series: Making it easier to get IPv6
Akinori Maemura was one of a group of policy trailblazers from the APNIC region that helped create the first global IPv6 policy.
Policy Series: Ensuring newcomers can connect to a dual-stack Internet
Philip Smith, Jonny Martin and Randy Bush’s policy to ration the final /8 of IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific provided a vital soft landing in the transition to IPv6.
Policy Series: Community discussion shapes IPv4 exhaustion global policy
Izumi Okutani tells the story behind the global policy that would change how the remaining IPv4 addresses were distributed by IANA to the RIRs.
Policy proposal prop-125 reaches consensus at APNIC 46
The Open Policy Meeting at APNIC 46 in Noumea, New Caledonia, reached consensus on prop-125: Validation of “abuse-mailbox” and other IRT emails.
Exploring tech/IG collaboration at the APrIGF
Guest Post: With complicated issues on the Internet landscape, we need greater collaboration between the tech and Internet governance community.
Four policy proposals up for community discussion at APNIC 46
Have your say (either in person or online) on the policy proposals under discussion at the APNIC 46 Open Policy Meeting on 13 September 2018.