<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi" <<a href="mailto:sunny@apnic.net">sunny@apnic.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">14 April 2011 16:00:11 GMT-03:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">APNIC Policy SIG List <<a href="mailto:sig-policy@apnic.net">sig-policy@apnic.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[sig-policy] APNIC IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8</b><br></span></div><br><div>_______________________________________________________________________<br><br>APNIC IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8<br>_______________________________________________________________________<br><br><br>Dear APNIC community<br><br>We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC<br>pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three<br>of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage<br>Three, please refer to:<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages">http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages</a><br><br><br>Last /8 address policy<br>----------------------<br><br>IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in "Policies<br>for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region":<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10">http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10</a><br><br>APNIC's objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space<br>for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq">http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq</a><br><br> From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled<br>to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address<br>space.<br><br>For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8<br>policy, please refer to:<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/criteria">http://www.apnic.net/criteria</a><br><br><br>Act NOW on IPv6<br>---------------<br><br>We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6<br>within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information<br>regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional<br>policies at:<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/ipv6">http://www.apnic.net/ipv6</a><br><br>To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit:<br><br> <a href="http://www.apnic.net/kickstart">http://www.apnic.net/kickstart</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________________________________<br><br>APNIC Secretariat <a href="mailto:secretariat@apnic.net">secretariat@apnic.net</a><br>Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100<br>PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199<br>6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD <a href="http://www.apnic.net">http://www.apnic.net</a><br>_______________________________________________________________________<br>* Sent by email to save paper. Print only if necessary.<br><br>* sig-policy: APNIC SIG on resource management policy *<br>_______________________________________________<br>sig-policy mailing list<br><a href="mailto:sig-policy@lists.apnic.net">sig-policy@lists.apnic.net</a><br><a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy">http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>