Policy SIG report

AMM, APNIC 27 Manila, Philippines

Policy Development Process

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Co-chair election

• Two nominees: – Ching-Heng Ku – David Woodgate • Congratulations and sympathies to the new Policy SIG Co-chair, Ching-Heng Ku

7 proposals discussed at APNIC 27

• prop-50: IPv4 address transfers • prop-60: Change in the criteria for the recognition of NIRs in the APNIC region • prop-63: Reducing timeframe of IPv4 allocations from twelve to six months • prop-67: A simple transfer proposal • prop-68: Inter-RIR transfer policy • prop-69: Global policy proposal for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries • prop-70: Maximum IPv4 allocation size

Proposals abandoned

• prop-60: Change in the criteria for the recognition of NIRs in the APNIC region • prop-63: Reducing timeframe of IPv4 allocations from twelve to six months • prop-70: Maximum IPv4 allocation size

Proposals withdrawn by authors

• prop-67: A simple transfer proposal • prop-68: Inter-RIR transfer policy In favour of prop-050 as modified by consensus at the meeting

Action items on consensus proposals

pol-027-001:

Pending approval at each remaining stage of the policy development process, the APNIC Secretariat to implement prop-50, "IPv4 address transfers” based on the revisions below: – APNIC will process IPv4 address transfer requests involving current account holders following the adoption of this proposed policy, subject to the following conditions:

• The minimum transfer size accepted will be a /24.

• APNIC is to maintain a public log of all transfers.

• Address transfers should be permitted between APNIC account holders and NIR members, if and when individual NIRs implement the transfer policy.

• Address transfers are permitted between APNIC account holders and other RIR account holders, following the policies of all the respective RIRs.

• This proposal to take effect as soon as the APNIC Secretariat can implement the mechanisms of the policy.

Action items on consensus proposals

pol-027-002:

Pending approval at each remaining stage of the policy development process, the APNIC Secretariat to implement prop-69, "Global policy proposal for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries” with the following clarifications: – The minimum size for redistributions by IANA to be explicitly documented – Examples of how IANA would redistribute space to the RIRs to be added