[sig-db] Final call for comments: [prop-026-v001] "APNIC to publishaddress assignment statistics"

[APNIC Secretariat <secretariat@apnic.net>]

Dear colleagues

APNIC welcomes comments, questions, and suggestions on the following 
policy proposal:

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Final call for comments: [prop-026-v001]
APNIC to publish address assignment statistics
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This is the final call for comments on policy proposal [prop-026-v001] 
"APNIC to publish address assignment statistics".

This is a proposal for APNIC to publish address assignment statistics.

This proposal was presented at APNIC 19 and the following consensus was 
reached:

    "Following approval at each remaining step of the policy
     development process, the APNIC Secretariat will implement
     proposal prop-026-v001, APNIC to publish address assignment
     statistics."

This proposal is now submitted to the sig-db mailing list for an eight 
week discussion period. At the end of that period, if consensus appears 
to have been achieved, the Chair of the Database SIG will ask the 
Executive Council to endorse the proposal for implementation.


* Send all comments and questions to: <sig-db@apnic.net>
* Deadline for comments: Friday 29 April 2005


Proposal details
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Proposal: APNIC to publish address assignment statistics
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Author:     Toshiyuki Hosaka
Version:    1.0
Date:       19 January 2005


Introduction
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This is a proposal requesting the APNIC secretariat to collect the
number of assignments registered in APNIC whois database on a monthly
basis, sorted by country and by address prefix(size).

This will help to keep track of the total IP address consumption in the
region and should be made publicly available on the APNIC website or on
the ftp server.


Summary
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+ In order to study the IP address consumption, it is necessary to keep
  track of not only the allocation data(date of allocation, allocated
  country, allocation size), but also how much assignments are actually
  made from those allocations.

+ However no data regarding assignments are currently made pubic by
  APNIC.

+ It is not no longer able to obtain assignment data by querying the
  APNIC whois database since "Privacy of customer assignment records"
  had been implemented by the APNIC secretariat last year.

+ APNIC Whois query result provides information such as the name of the
  assigned organization, contact, etc, but these information are not
  necessary for studying the trend of the address consumptions


Details
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- allocation data is already made publicly available by APNIC, therefore,
  it is out of scope of this proposal

- the information to be collected is defined as follows
   + registry(APNIC)
   + country code
   + type of IP address(IPv4/IPv6)
   + prefix size of the assignment(/24, /23 ..., etc)
   + data sorted by prefix size of the assignment

- All assignment data which fall into either one of the following
  categories should be collected:
   + data registered as "Assigned non-portable"
   + data registered as "Assigned portable"

   (Note:sub-allocation data, i.e, "allocated non-portable" will not be
   the target of the data collection in order to avoid double counts of
   assignments registered under such allocations)

- Add up the total of the above mentioned data, sorted by country and by
  prefix size.

- the following is a proposed data format, but this can be changed.

   registry|cc|type|prefix|value

   registry ... APNIC
   cc       ... country code(2 letters) registered in the assignment
   type     ... IPv4 or IPv6
   prefix   ... address prefix
   value ... the number of assignments registered under the specified 
prefix

   (EX)  APNIC|JP|ipv4|24|2678
         APNIC|JP|ipv4|25|3789
         APNIC|JP|ipv6|48|800
         APNIC|JP|ipv6|64|2300
         ..
         APNIC|KR|ipv4|23|3450
         ..


Pros/Cons
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- It enables speculation of the volumes of address stocks within LIRs
  and the scale of deployment among end users by comparing the volume of
  allocations and assignments

- Especially in terms of IPv6 which is still under diffusion period, it
  can be used as a basis for future policy development by seeing how
  much assignments are actually being made

- Those who needs access to such data do not need to make whois queries
  and does not conflict with "Privacy of customer assignment records"


Effect on APNIC
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APNIC members can access to the assignment data without conflict with
"Privacy of customer assignment records"

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References
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Proposal details including full text of proposal, presentations, links
to relevant meeting minutes, and links to mailing list discussions are
available at:

    http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-026-v001.html


Regards


APNIC Secretariat


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