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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear ARIN Community Members,</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Section 6.1 (and more particularly section 6.1.1) of the NRPM does not contain any policy per se.
 Rather, it provides some background related to the development of the policies for the allocation and assignment of IPv6 space that are contained in the balance of Section 6. This background is now well known. For this reason, the NRPM Working Group is of
 the view that section 6.1 (and section 6.1.1, which is the only section within section 6.1) could be retired.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We now seek input from the Community regarding whether there is support for such a change.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kind regards,</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chris Tacit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NRPM Working Group Chair</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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