[sig-policy] APNIG 22 Policy SIG report

["Kenny Huang" <huangk@alum.sinica.edu>]

Dear SIG members,

Here's the chair's summary report of the last Policy SIG held during APNIC
22 last week.


The Policy SIG had three sessions with 90 people attending the SIG in room.
The jabber chat had 17 participants online.

Open action items from APNIC21 include:
1 pol-21-001
Chair to move the discussion of the HD-ratio for IPv4 networks proposal
(prop-020-v001) 
to the mailing list for a further month to seek consensus and make a
decision.
2 pol-21-002
Pending approval at each remaining stage of the policy proposal process, 
APNIC Secretariat to implement the proposal establishing a transition
timeline 
for assigning 4-byte AS numbers (prop-032-v002)


Eight policy proposals were discussed. The following proposals reached
consensus and were subsequently approved at the APNIC Member Meeting.
These proposals are now subject to a "last call" for comments:
   prop-033-v001:  End site assignment policy for IPv6
   prop-035-v002:  IPv6 portable assignment for multihoming
   prop-038-v001:  Modified lame DNS policy proposal
   prop-041-v001:  IPv6 assignment size to critical infrastructure

 The following proposal reached partial consensus. Consensus elements
 of this proposal were approved at the APNIC Member Meeting and are now
 subject to a "last call" for comments.

    prop-039-v001: A proposal to improve reachability of new IANA blocks

 The following proposals did not reach consensus:

   prop-034-v001: IPv6 portable assignment for end user organisations
   prop-036-v001: Proposal to allow end sites to receive IPv6
                    allocations
   prop-037-v001: Deprecation of email updates for APNIC Registry and
                    whois data
                    - A working group will be created to further discuss
                      the issues raised in prop-037-v001.
                      Shin Yamasaki volunteered to chair the working group
      
Four informational presentations were made, include 
Comment from JP on end site allocation policy for IPv6 prop-033-v-001 (Izumi
Okutani) 
IP policy update - Comparative status in all RIR regions  (Save Vocea ) 
Large Space IPv4 Trial Usage Program for Future IPv6 Deployment activities
update vol.11 (Takashi Nakamura) 
Experimental assignment for four-byte AS Numbers (Akinori Maemura)

For more information, please see:
     http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals

All presentation material "and transcripts" are available in 
 http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22/program/sigs/policy.html

Final minutes of this Policy SIG will be available soon.

Best Regards


Kenny Huang, Toshiyuki Hosaka, Eugene li 
Chair/Co-chair Policy SIG