Hi All, Under “What we do”section , apnic describes itself as , "APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, pronounced A-P-NIC) is an open, member-based, not-for-profit organization, whose primary role is to distribute and manage Internet number resources (IP addresses and AS numbers) in the Asia Pacific region’s 56 economies.” So clearly, APNIC is not for profit and shouldn't see things with an eye on profit.
Blog talks about the Dollar’s ($$$) apnic can earn if members join APNIC directly, instead of coming via NIRs. Why APNIC is seeing this as business loss and why they are not understanding that NIRs are doing great job in expanding the Internet in their economies, and which according to me should be the primary role of both APNIC and NIRs. If we can expand the membership base of APNIC by extending membership to NIR members, then we can minimise the hostile takeover possibilty , which AFRINIC is facing today. As mentioned in my blog also, LACNIC has 2 NIRs and the members of NIR's have the voting rights in the LACNIC , so it’s just in APNIC where NIR’s members don’t have voting rights. I had submitted a policy for this with an intention of soughting the members opionion but unfortunately the policy was sent to EC instead of posting it to policy sig mailing list. You can refer my original write up on this subject here - https://blog.gauravkansal.in/2022/07/is-apnic-policy-of-members-voting.html <https://blog.gauravkansal.in/2022/07/is-apnic-policy-of-members-voting.html> Regards, Gaurav Kansal > On 13-Jul-2022, at 09:58, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all > > For those following this discussion, there's a now related post on the APNIC > Blog: > https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/13/the-nir-structure-annual-fees-and-voting-entitlement%ef%bf%bc/ > > <https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/13/the-nir-structure-annual-fees-and-voting-entitlement%ef%bf%bc/> > > Thanks > Tony > > > On 6/7/2022, 6:55 pm, "Bertrand Cherrier" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello Gaurav, > > Any NIR member can participate in APNIC Policies, in fact anyone can > participate ! > The first step is to subscribe to the policy-sig mailing list > (https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/participate/), then (or before) > read the PdP (https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/process/) And then > submit a proposal ! > > Looking forward to reading you soon on the policy-sig mailing list ;-) > > > -- > Bertrand Cherrier > Policy SIG Chair > > > > Le jeudi 23 juin 2022 à 15:26 +0530, Gaurav Kansal a écrit : >> APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional >> Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region, service >> 56 economies, including India, Bangladesh, China, Australia, Japan >> and others. APNIC is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the >> Number Resource Organization (NRO). >> As of date, the following 7 NIRs (National Internet Registries) are >> registered with APNIC for serving the local community[i] [ii] [iii]-- >> NIR >> >> >> >> I think it’s a high time to update APNIC membership and voting policy >> rules and guidelines, and allow NIR members also to participate in >> APNIC policies. This will also help APNIC in expanding the user base >> and can be helpful in avoiding the hostile takeover type of >> situation, which we have recently saw in AFRINIC. >> >> Thanks, >> Gaurav Kansal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> apnic-talk - [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]><https://mailman.apnic.net >> <https://mailman.apnic.net/>/<a >> href=>/">https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ >> <https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk - [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]><https://mailman.apnic.net > <https://mailman.apnic.net/>/<a > href=>/">https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > <https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > <https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>
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