Noah,
1. You clearly have not read the proposal text. You state that the proposal does not put a timeframe on when the temporary assignment must be returned however under "5.8.1.1 Scope and Goal" it clearly reads "This section describes the policies for the temporary assignment of IPv4 address space, IPv6 address space, as well as Autonomous System numbers for temporary short-term use periods not exceeding 6 months". If you wish to comment on a policy proposal, please read the text first. 2. What you are describing as potential abuse sure smells like what is currently taking place within the AFRINIC service region. Having said that, this policy is not for the purposes you've described and I would be surprised if the Secretariat decided to allow for resources to be temporarily assigned for the purposes you've mentioned. Regards, Christopher Hawker ________________________________ From: Noah <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 9:30 AM To: Shaila Sharmin <[email protected]> Cc: sig-policy <[email protected]> Subject: [sig-policy] Re: Final comments: prop-156: Assignment of Temporary IP Resources Hi Shaila, The proposal does not put a time frame on when the said temporary assignment must be returned... Is there a chance that the proposal could create a loophole for an entity to not return the said temporary assignment due continued need for the resouece for 5 or even 10 years..? I have a problem with the " other purposes as APNIC deems appropriate where a long-term assignment may not be feasible" The purposes that are not defined open room for abuse... imagine a temporary assignment that an entity refuses to return and goes to Court to tell the judge that if APNIC was to recover the resource, millions of people will loose connectivity which is against human rights and the said Judge decides to issue an interim order against APNIC since they dont have an idea what APNIC is or what is the whole thing all about. In fact an entity could claim APNIC is illegally recovering the temporary resource which will cause total outage of the VPN server where people are using as VPN jumpbox to avoid censorship from some government... and recovery will expose those people to the said authoritarian government. Folks have become to creative and subtle that its extremely important to be specific when it comes to drafting of policies. Lots of dishonest folks out there. Cheers Noah On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, 10:40 Shaila Sharmin, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear colleagues, Version 2 of prop-156: Assignment of Temporary IP Resources , reached consensus at the APNIC 57 Open Policy Meeting and later at the APNIC General Meeting (AGM). This proposal will now move to the next step in the APNIC Policy Development Process and is being returned to the Policy SIG mailing list for the final Comment Period. - Deadline for comments: 23:59 (UTC +10) Wednesday, 3 April 2024 Proposal details, including the full text of the proposal, history, and links to previous versions are available at: https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-156/ Regards, Bertrand, Shaila and Anupam Policy SIG Chairs _______________________________________________ SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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