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Policy Development Process

APNIC's policies are developed by the membership and broader Internet community. The major media for policy development are the face-to-face Open Policy Meetings, which are held twice each year, and mailing list discussions.

APNIC's policy development process is:

  • Open
    • Anyone can propose policies.
    • Everyone can discuss policy proposals.
  • Transparent
    • APNIC publicly documents all policy discussions and decisions.
  • Bottom-up
    • The community drives policy development.

APNIC documents all policy discussions and decisions to provide complete transparency of the policy development process.

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