1. Issue Date:
Revision:
APNIC Policy Update
May, 2014
Vivek Nigam
bdNOG1
[19 May 2014]
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2. Overview
• How are policies
developed?
• Why is policy
development
important?
• Policy updates
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“Function as the
Regional Internet
Registry for the Asia
Pacific, in the service
of the community of
Members and others”

3. How Are Policies Developed?
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Open, transparent, bottom-up
Consensus based
Policy SIG mailing list

4. Policy Cycle
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5. Why is Policy
Development Important?
• Fair and consistent distribution of
Internet Number resources
• Anyone can participate in how
Internet number resources are
managed
– How much Internet number resources
you can get
– How IP addresses are transferred
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Policy SIG Charter:
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

6. Policy Development
• APNIC Policy Development Process
www.apnic.net/policy/policy-development
• SIG Guidelines
www.apnic.net/community/sigs/sig-guidelines
• Mailing list archive
mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy
• Mailing list subscription
mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy
• Mail to list
sig-policy@apnic.net
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7. Recently Implemented Policies
Implemented
• prop-108: Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy
Development Process
- Changes the duration of comment period from 8 weeks to
no shorter then 4 weeks but no longer then 8 weeks
• prop-107: AS Number transfer policy proposal
- Permits the transfer of Autonomous System Numbers
(ASNs)
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8. Recently Implemented Policies
• prop-109: Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 to APNIC Labs
as Research Prefixes
- Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 to APNIC Labs as
Research Prefixes to be used as passive traffic collectors
Pending Implementation
• prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address
(Modification of prop-088)
- Permits the delegation of an additional /22 IPv4 address to
APNIC account holders
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9. Policy Proposals at APNIC 37
• prop-111: Request-based expansion of IPv6 default
allocation size
– Proposal did not reach consensus at the Policy SIG and was
returned to the author for further development
• prop-110: Designate 1.2.3.0/24 as Anycast to support DNS
Infrastructure
– The proposal reached consensus at the Policy SIG, but failed to
reach consensus at the AMM
• Returned to mailing list for further consideration, but later withdrawn by the author
and abandoned
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10. You’re Invited!
• APNIC 38: Brisbane, Australia, 9-19 Sep 2014
• APRICOT 2015: Fukuoka, Japan, 24 Feb-6 Mar 2015
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11. THANK YOU
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