Dear Aftab, 

Good point. Awaiting answer from the EC/ Secretariat. 

I have a whole lot more on this process, I think the power of the EC to endorse 
after it has passed the AMM is ultra vires. It is undermining the power of AMM.

Regards
Anupam

> On 20 Jan 2026, at 10:38 AM, Aftab Siddiqui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Secretariat,
> or if anyone from EC would like to comment on this,
> 
> As per my understanding of the PDP, the EC's Role According to Step 5 clearly 
> states the EC has three options only after the consensus has reached at the 
> OPM and then at AMM/AGM:
> 
> - Endorse the proposal for implementation
> - Do not endorse the proposal and refer back to the Policy SIG for further 
> discussion with clearly stated reasons
> - Do not endorse the proposal and refer the endorsement to a formal vote of 
> adoption by APNIC members
> 
> It can't be endorsed by EC and then ask secretariat to implement some parts 
> of it. It's a binary function and since this policy has been endorsed by the 
> EC as per the meeting minutes then it has to be implemented as written.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Aftab A. Siddiqui
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 13:13, Dave Phelan <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues  
>> 
>> The APNIC Executive Council endorsed the following proposals, at its meeting 
>> on 2-4 December 2025.  
>> 
>> prop-162: WHOIS Privacy 
>> (https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-162/)
>> prop-166: Revocation of Persistently Non-functional RPKI Certification 
>> Authorities (https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-166/)
>> prop-167: Published Statistics on Directory Service Usage 
>> (https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals/prop-167)
>> 
>> prop-167 contained the following notes from the EC (full text available in 
>> the EC Minutes 
>> (https://www.apnic.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/APNIC-EC-Meeting-Minutes-December-2025-Complete-Public.pdf):
>> 
>> "..with respect to publishing real-time or near-real-time statistics about 
>> its directory services usage as set out in the proposal text. Noting that 
>> the text of Prop-167-v002 requests APNIC "Include a feature within the 
>> MyAPNIC portal allowing resource holders to view how many times their 
>> allocated resources (such as IP addresses or ASNs) have been queried in 
>> WHOIS and RDAP, broken down by query type and source ASN if possible...”, 
>> the Executive Council notes that the cost, resourcing, and potential privacy 
>> concerns outweigh the immediate benefit of such functionality and as such 
>> does not consider it feasible at this time. "
>> 
>> Next steps
>> 
>> ---------- 
>> 
>> The Secretariat will begin the implementation process and inform the 
>> community as soon as it is completed.  
>> 
>> Regards
>> Dave Phelan 
>> APNIC Secretariat
>> 
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