I also agree with this. I have no problems with policy proposals coming from APNIC Secretariat especially as they are uniquely in a position to identify conflicts between policies and help us as a community to resolve those conflicts for the betterment of the entire community.
For me the only concern is that any proposal from anyone needs to be in that person/organisations name. This helps us as a community understand the motivation behind the policy. This is paramount to a proper democratic process. I would be strongly against APNIC lodging proposals via someone else. 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I very much support this idea and acknowledge the precedent of the allocation of 1.1.1.0/24<http://1.1.1.0/24> 1.0.0.0/24<http://1.0.0.0/24> which originated from Geoff Huston cooperating with Cloudflare on gathering data on DNSSEC adoption. Given the community is engaged and consulted on any and all proposals, there is safety and diligence in formally making it possible for the APNIC Secretariat to use the same process to help clarify and optimize policy for the APNIC community. Let the discussion begin :) [https://thumbs.about.me/thumbnail/users/t/e/r/terry.sweetser_emailsig.jpg?_1524055396_143]<https://about.me/terry.sweetser?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb> Terry Sweetser about.me/terry.sweetser<https://about.me/terry.sweetser?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb>
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