A presentation given at the APNIC AGM session during APRICOT 2015 on Friday, 6th March 2015.

1. APNIC Policy SIG report:
Open Policy Meeting
Policy SIG Report
Masato Yamanishi, Chair
APNIC 39 Fukuoka, Japan

2. Policy SIG Meeting outcomes
• SIG Chair / Co-Chair Election
• Considered Four Policy Proposals
• Three informational presentations
• One Community Consultation
• Confer version 0.2

3. Chair Elections
• Chair
– Masato Yamanishi
• Co-Chair
– No candidate. One expression of interest
– Election at APNIC 40
– If Acting Chair required
• Secretariat to appoint from NRO NC
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4. prop-112: On demand expansion of IPv6
address allocation size in legacy IPv6 space
Problem Statement:
• IPv6 blocks reserved for subsequent delegations to Legacy
holders prior to the introduction of Sparse Allocation may
remain inaccessible and unused.
Proposal:
• Modify eligibility criteria for these Legacy IPv6 block
holders.
Outcome:
• Abandoned

5. prop-113: Modification in the IPv4
eligibility criteria
Problem Statement:
• Multi-homing is mandatory for small IPv4 delegations to end-sites
(assignments). Requesters might obtain multi-homing when it is
not required, fabricate multi-homing information in their request,
or not apply for the space they need.
Proposal:
• New text submitted after proposal returned to mailing list.
• Remove the ‘mandatory’ multi-homing requirement from IPv4
assignment policy.
Outcome:
• No consensus, returned to mailing list

6. prop-114 - Modification in the ASN
eligibility criteria
Problem Statement:
Organizations have either provided incorrect information to get an
ASN, or barred themselves from applying where they still have a
valid justification for obtaining an ASN.
Proposal:
• New text proposed at lunch break
• An organization is eligible for an ASN assignment if:
– they are currently multi-homed OR
– have previous allocated provider independent address space by APNIC
AND intend to multi-home in the future
Outcome:
• No consensus, returned to mailing list

7. prop-115 - Registration of detailed
assignment information in whois DB
Problem Statement:
• Use of IPv4 address sharing technologies and IPv6, make it
difficult to filter out a specific address range. This leads
operators to 'over-filter' (i.e. filtering whole ISP's address
range).
Proposal:
• IPv4 - add 'port range' information to IP address entries
• IPv6 - provide 'assignment prefix size’ for specific
addresses
Outcome:
• No consensus, returned to mailing list.

8. Informational presentations
• Reporting Network Abuse and APNIC Whois Database
Accuracy
– Aftab Siddiqui
• From Policy to Practice: Addressing and Routing in 2014
– Geoff Huston
• APNIC IPv6 pools and delegation practice
– Guangliang Pan

9. whois DB discussion in Policy SIG
Policy SIG Charter
The charter of the Policy SIG is to develop policies and
procedures which relate to the management and use of
Internet address resources by APNIC, NIRs, and ISPs within
the Asia Pacific region.
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• Policy SIG agreed to cover whois DB also
• Questions to AGM
– Is it acceptable?
– Can current Charter cover it, or should be changed?

10. Community Consultation
• Update on RIPE NCC Inter-RIR Transfers Proposal
– Andrea Cima (RIPE NCC)
• Proposal in final stages of PDP.
– New version will apply needs base if source RIR requires it
– APNIC policy does not currently require needs outgoing
– RIPE will apply needs base for the transfer from ARIN, but not for from
APNIC
• ARIN Secretariat advice
– APNIC -> RIPE NCC not currently relevant to ARIN policy
• Current APNIC EC moratorium
– EC to review if RIPE NCC proposal progresses
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11. New Version of Confer
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12. Program & Participation
• Negative feedback for session schedule
– Lightning talk was in parallel with 1st session
• History
– Initially scheduled two sessions (2nd and 3rd)
– Heavy workload required additional session
– Conflict with Lightning Talks
• Proposed solution
– Assume 3 sessions at the beginning
– Reduce later if not needed
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13. Thank you
Questions?
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