This document outlines the agenda for the APNIC 40 Policy SIG Meeting on September 10, 2015. The agenda includes discussions on policy SIG co-chair elections, the status of APNIC's IPv4 resources, policy documentation consultation, proposals to modify IPv4 and ASN eligibility criteria, a Whois update, addressing and IoT/M2M services, and registering detailed assignment information in the Whois database. The document also provides information on the policy SIG process, translating policy proposals, and preferences to avoid conflicts with other sessions.

1. Open Policy Meeting
Masato Yamanishi
Policy SIG Chair
APNIC 40 Policy SIG Meeting
10 September 2015

2. Agenda Session 1: 09:00 - 10:30
• Policy SIG Co-Chair Election
• SIG Administration
– SIG Chair, Masato Yamanishi
• The Status of APNIC’s IPv4 Resources: Exhaustion &
Transfers
– Geoff Huston
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3. Agenda Session 2: 11:00 - 12:30
• Consultation on Policy Documentation
– Adam Gosling
• IPv4: Mining Strategic Reserves
– Jim Cowie
• prop-114: Modification in the ASN eligibility criteria
– Aftab A. Siddiqui
• prop-113: Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria
– Aftab A. Siddiqui
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4. Agenda Session 3: 14:00 - 15:30
• Whois update from the Secretariat
– Guangliang Pan
• IP addressing and IoT/M2M services
– Tomohiro Fujisaki
• prop-115: Registration of detailed assignment information in
Whois DB
– Tomohiro Fujisaki
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5. Policy SIG Election
Masato Yamanishi
Chair, APNIC Policy SIG
10 September 2015

6. Policy SIG Co-Chair Election
• Nominees
– Sumon Ahmed Sabir

7. 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
• Mailing list
– sig-policy@apnic.net
• Web address
– http://www.apnic.net/policy-sig

8. Action Items
• The action items for the three proposals currently under
discussion.
• All returned to mailing list
– pol-39-01: prop-113: Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria
• Returned to the mailing list for further consideration
– pol-39-01: prop-114: Modification in the ASN eligibility criteria
• Returned to the mailing list for further consideration
– pol-39-01: prop-115: Registration of detailed assignment information
in whois DB
• Returned to the mailing list for further consideration
• Available at
– https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/policy-sig/policy-sig

9. Who’s Who?
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
• Masato Yamanishi - APNIC Policy SIG Chair
NRO NC / ASO AC
• Aftab Siddiqui (apologies)
• Ajay Kumar (Dr.)
• Tomohiro Fujisaki

10. Steps to Implementation
Proposal submission
Mailing list discussion before meeting
• Consensus at Policy SIG Meeting (today)
• Consensus at the AMM (tomorrow)
• Comment Period to confirm consensus
• EC endorsement
• Editorial Comment period
• Implementation

11. Consensus Decision Making
• Consensus =
– “general agreement” taking into consideration comments on the
mailing list and at the meeting.
• Objections
– Minor Objections: some problems may occur for some members of
the group
– Major Objections: major problems will occur for parts of the
community
• Participants should “work together” to resolve objections

12. Gauging Consensus
• Remote Participation is very welcome
• Show of hands is a way of “broadly gauging opinion”
– CONFER is our electronic equivalent
– The Chair may ask for both

13. Confer Registration
• Some minor changes since last meeting
• All previous registrations were cleared
• Please register/re-register now
– confer.apnic.net
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14. Translated summary of proposals
• As part of the 2014 APNIC Survey initiatives, the policy proposals to be
discussed at APNIC 40 have been summarized and translated into the
following languages:
– Chinese Simplified
– Chinese Traditional
– Hindi
– Indonesian
– Japanese
– Korean
– Thai
– Vietnamese
• You can find them at
– https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/proposals
• Summaries and translations of policy proposals will be made available
for future APNIC Conferences.
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15. Other sessions in parallel
• In Fukuoka, Chair got complaints that some technical
sessions were in parallel, in particular for Lightning Talks
• What is your preference?
– No conflicts with any sessions, including tutorials
– No conflicts with any sessions, except tutorials
– Don’t care for any conflicts
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16. References
• APNIC Policy Development Process
– www.apnic.net/policy/policy-development
• SIG Guidelines
– http://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

17. Thank you
Questions?
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