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Reducing the minimum delegation size for the final /8 policy

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID
prop-093
RIR
APNIC
Official status
Implemented.
Normalized status
Accepted
Introduced
Jan 25, 2011
Last source update
Oct 12, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

6Total participants
UnknownDiscussion contributors
6Formal actors
UnknownDiscussion messages
UnknownEffective participants
UnknownTop-five discussion share
UnknownPeople covering 50%
UnknownPeople covering 80%

BTW Analysis

BTW Analysis

What changed

APNIC prop-093 moved from recorded introduction on 2011-01-25 to an accepted decision on 2011-05-09, an elapsed period of 104 days. The supplied facts do not identify the proposal's substantive provisions, revisions, implementation effects, or any later changes.

What the debate was really about

The subject and substance of the debate cannot be established from the supplied record. There are no recorded discussion messages, participant stances, objections, responses, or intermediate deliberative milestones from which to infer the underlying policy conflict, incentives, or trade-offs.

Arguments that prevailed

  • At the outcome level, adoption of prop-093 prevailed because the sole recorded decision status is accepted; the substantive arguments supporting adoption are not supplied.

Decision vs debate

The decision outcome is clear: the proposal was accepted on 2011-05-09. The discussion record is absent from the supplied dataset: it contains zero messages, zero discussion participants, zero active days, zero stance participants, and zero stance transitions. Acceptance therefore can be reported, but its rationale, consensus quality, voting procedure, and relationship to any debate cannot be reconstructed.

Participation concentration

The dataset records six formal actors and six total participants but zero discussion participants and zero messages. Consequently, the zero message shares, zero HHI, zero effective-participant count, and zero core-participant counts are non-diagnostic. They do not demonstrate either broad participation or low concentration, and they cannot establish how influence was distributed among the formal actors.

Chokepoint analysis

The only visible outcome chokepoint is the recorded decision on 2011-05-09, when the introduced proposal acquired accepted status. The supplied facts do not expose who controlled that chokepoint, how the decision was reached, whether voting or consensus was used, or how the six formal actors were connected to the outcome.

Uncertainties

  • Zero recorded discussion activity may reflect incomplete dataset coverage and does not prove that no debate occurred in meetings, other channels, or omitted records.
  • The identities, roles, overlap, influence, and voting power of the six formal actors are not supplied.
  • The proposal text, revisions, substantive policy change, objections, responses, consensus findings, and implementation consequences are missing.
  • No participant-level support, opposition, compromise, or stance movement can be inferred because no stance observations or transitions are recorded.
  • The coverage and collection methodology underlying the participation metrics are not defined by the supplied facts.
  • No facts establish whether the accepted policy was later implemented, amended, reversed, or superseded.
  • The Doctrine package does not establish a complete official position on APNIC prop-093 and therefore cannot supply missing factual or policy conclusions.

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Introduced

    Introduced

    Source facts ↗
  2. Official decision

    accepted

    accepted

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. Philip Smith · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0
  2. Randy Bush Philip Smith Andy Linton · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0
  3. Randy Bush · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0
  4. Randy Bush Philip Smith Andy Linton Terence Zhang Yinghao · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0
  5. Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0
  6. Discussion messages0
    First activityUnknown
    Last activityUnknown
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies0

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

  • apnic-sig-policy
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  • apnic-sig-policy
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  • www.apnic.net
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  • apnic-afg-community-apnic.foundation
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  • apnic-apnic-foundation-discuss-apnic.foundation
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  • apnic-apnic-services-apnic.net
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  • apnic-apnic-talk-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-apnic-transfers-apnic.net
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  • apnic-bgp-stats-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-community-elections-apnic.net
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  • apnic-diversity-in-leadership-apnic.net
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  • apnic-icp-2review-apnic.net
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  • apnic-measurement-apnic.net
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  • apnic-mvnog-apnic.net
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  • apnic-orbit-discuss-apnic.net
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  • apnic-pngnog-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-cooperation-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-guidelines-review-apnic.net
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  • apnic-sig-nir-lists.apnic.net
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  • apnic-youth4ig-lists.apnic.net
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Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Jun 1, 2001
Latest captured: Oct 12, 2026

Freshness

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh:

Known gaps

  • www.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • conference.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-academy-talk-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-afg-community-apnic.foundation: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apac-ict-women-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-chair-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-secretary-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apix-treasurer-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-alumni-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-announce-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-foundation-discuss-apnic.foundation: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-services-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-talk-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-apnic-transfers-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-bgp-stats-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-community-elections-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-community-events-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-diversity-in-leadership-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-ianaxfer-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-icp-2review-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-measurement-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-mvnog-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-orbit-discuss-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-pngnog-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-security-discuss-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-cooperation-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-guidelines-review-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-nir-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-sig-routingsecurity-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-user-feedback-group-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-wg-pdr-apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • apnic-youth4ig-lists.apnic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.