Christopher, I read the text, I just missed the 6 months part... thanks for spelling it out.
As for "other purposes" that is not a clear objective as its open ended putting a burden on secretariat and could create room for abuse or dishonest applications. Noah On Fri, 8 Mar 2024, 02:16 Christopher Hawker, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > 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] > >
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