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APNIC Document identity

 Title:       Policies for the transfer of historical Internet 
              resources
 
 Short title:			  historical-transfer-policy
 Document ref:  		  APNIC-113  
 Version:   			  001
 Date of original publication:    19 March 2004     
 Date of current version:         19 March 2004
 Review scheduled:  		  n/a                
 Obsoletes: 			  n/a
 Status:  			  Obsolete                       
 Comments:  			  Obsoleted by APNIC-116
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    Policies for the transfer of historical Internet resources


1	Introduction
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This document describes the policies and procedures for voluntary 
transfer of historical resource registrations to current APNIC 
account holders. Resources transferred under this policy will become
subject to the current APNIC policy framework.



2	Definitions
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2.1	Current resources

	Current resources are Internet resources registered by APNIC
	under explicit policies and agreements. Resources include 
	public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, Autonomous System numbers, 
	and reverse DNS delegations.
	
	
2.2	Historical resources

	Historical resources are Internet resources registered under
	early registry policies without formal agreements and include
	registrations transferred to APNIC as part of the AUNIC to
	APNIC migration and the Early Registration Transfer (ERX) 
	project, as well as historical APNIC resources. For more 
	information, see "Guide to the transfer of historical 
	Internet resources" at:
	
        http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/historical-transfer-guide.html 



3	Application of this policy is optional
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If historical resources are transferred to an APNIC member, there is 
the option to make the transfer under the conditions described in 
this policy. Transfers of Internet resources to current APNIC account
holders are purely optional. For information on the different types 
of transfers available, please see "Guide to the transfer of 
historical Internet resources".



4	Transfer procedure
--------------------------

All transfers of historical resources to current APNIC account 
holders made under this policy are recognised and registered by 
APNIC. APNIC does not require any technical review or approval of the
resource?s current use to approve the transfer. In addition, APNIC 
does not review any agreements between the parties to a transfer and
does not exert any control over the type of agreement between the 
parties.

To transfer historical resources, the following steps take place:

	1.  The APNIC member submits the Historical transfer 
	    application form; 
	    
	2.  APNIC verifies the existing holder of the resources;
	
	3.  The existing holder of the resources provides documents
	    confirming the transfer to the APNIC member;
	    
	4.  APNIC transfers the resources to the APNIC member?s 
	    account.

Detailed information on these steps is available in "Guide to the
transfer of historical Internet resources".



5	Policies applicable to transferred resources
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All resources transferred under this policy are subject to the 
provisions of all normal address management policies. In particular,
the following conditions will apply:

	*  Future address requests from the member must document the
	   use of transferred resources as a part of the member?s 
	   current resource holdings.
	   
	*  Transferred resources will be considered when assessing 
	   the APNIC membership tier at the time of the member?s
	   annual renewal.