[sig-policy] The summary report of the Policy SIG at APNIC 24

[Toshiyuki Hosaka <hosaka@nic.ad.jp>]

Dear SIG members,

Here's the summary report of the last Policy SIG held during APNIC 24
last week.

Community Resolution:
 At the beginning of the Policy SIG the following resolution passed
 unanimously.

 http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/program/sigs/policy/resolution.html


Co-chair Election:
 Randy Bush and Jian Zhang were elected as new co-chairs.


Policy Proposals:

 The following proposal reached consensus:

     prop-049: IANA policy for allocation of ASN blocks to Regional
               Internet Registries


 There were two proposals that considered ways to distribute the last
 remaining blocks of the free IANA IPv4 address pool to the RIRs:

    prop-051: Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4
              Address Space

    prop-046: IPv4 countdown policy proposal

 Neither proposal reached consensus; however, there was consensus on
 the following principles:

    - If there is to be a policy on the distribution of the last
      remaining IPv4 blocks to RIRs, then each RIR should be allocated
      one, not two, /8 blocks.

    - Discussion is needed on the policy under which the last /8 would
      be allocated in the APNIC region.


 The following proposal didn't reach consensus:

    prop-050: APNIC transfer policy for IPv4 address holders

 However many of the participants support to discuss further on this
 policy proposal. Author of this proposal will revise the proposal and
 come back to the next APNIC meeting with a proposal reflecting the
 revised input.


 Four open proposals were not presented at the meeting:

    prop-042: Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria
    prop-043: Proposal to remove reference to IPv6 policy document as
              an "interim" policy document
    prop-047: eGLOP multicast address assignments
    prop-048: IPv6 ULA-central


For more information, please see:

     http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals

All presentation material are available at:
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/program/sigs/policy/


Best Regards,

Toshiyuki Hosaka, Randy Bush, Jian Zhang
Chair/Co-chair Policy SIG