A presentation given at APNIC 38 during the Policy SIG session.

1. Policy Documentation
Adam Gosling
APNIC 38 Policy SIG Meeting
18 September 2014

2. Implementations since APNIC 37
• prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address
(Modification of prop-088)
• prop-107: AS number transfer policy proposal
• prop-109: Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 to APNIC Labs
as Research Prefixes
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3. Single Policy Document
• Combine 7 Policies into one document
– Policy environment for Internet number resource distribution in the
Asia Pacific
– Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific
region
– IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy
– Experimental allocations policy
– Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia
Pacific region
– APNIC transfer, merger, acquisition, and takeover policy
– Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois
Database

4. Why?
• Significantly reduced maintenance overhead
• Increased accessibility and ease-of-use
• Removal of duplicate content
• Easier analysis
• Easier to provide a change log
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5. Editorial Review
• Document Editorial Policy calls for 1 month comment period
• Is this sufficient? Or would you prefer more time?
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6. Policy Store
• Store of active Official Documents
– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/docs/
Metadata listing of documents
– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/docs/README.txt
• Archival Versioning of all Official Documents
– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/archive/
Metadata listing of archival documents
– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/archive/readme.txt

7. Thank you
Questions?
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