Presentation by Alex Yang at APRICOT 2018 on Tuesday, 27 February 2018.

1. A proposal for
Modify 103/8 IPv4 transfer policy
Alex Yang
APNIC 45 Open Policy Meeting
Kathmandu
2018-2-26

2. Problem statement
• Policy Proposal prop-116-v006:
Prohibit to transfer IPv4 addresses in the final /8 block reached consensus at the APNIC 44 AMM on
14 Sep 2017. Since that APNIC has stopped all the IPv4 transfers from 103/8 block if the
delegation date is less than 5 years.
• Problems:
However, some of the 103/8 ranges were delegated before 14 Sep 2017. Those resources should
not be subjected to 5 years restriction. The community was not aware of the restriction when
they received those resources, some of the resources have been transferred or planning to
transfer. If APNIC is not allow those transfers to be registered, there will be underground transfers.
This will cause incorrect APNIC Whois data.

3. Objective of policy change
• To keep the APNIC Whois data correct.
Data Shared by APNIC from the mailing list on Feb 2018

4. Situation in other regions
• No such situation in other regions.

5. Proposed policy solution
• “Prohibit transfer IPv4 addresses under final /8 address block (103/8)
which have not passed five years after its allocation/assignment”
should only apply to those ranges were delegated from APNIC since
14 Sep 2017.

6. Advantages / Disadvantages
• Advantages
• Allow APNIC to register those 103/8 transfers to keep the APNIC Whois data
correct.
• Disadvantages
• None

7. Impact on APNIC
• Resource holders are allowed to transfer 103/8 ranges if the resources
were delegated before 14 Sep 2017.

8. Summary
• We support the Prop-116 which protect the exhausting IPv4 blocks and
keep the new delegations original in APNIC region , but hope the ranges
delegated from APNIC before 14 Sep 2017 should be allowed to transfer
to keep the whois data correct.

9. Questions?