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Draft documents review:

- IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy - APNIC guidelines for IPv6 allocation and assignment requests ________________________________________________________________________

Dear SIG members

APNIC seeks final editorial comments on the following draft documents:

- IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy http://www.apnic.net/docs/drafts/draft-ipv6-address-policy- v005.html

- APNIC guidelines for IPv6 allocation and assignment requests http://www.apnic.net/docs/drafts/draft-ipv6-guidelines-v001.html

These documents have been updated to reflect the implementation of policy proposal prop-057, "Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria".

The changes are as follows:

- In section 5.1.1.1 of "IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy", criteria d) has been changed to:

d) meet one of the two following criteria:

- Have a plan for making at least 200 assignments to other organizations within two years OR

- Be an existing LIR with IPv4 allocations from an RIR/ NIR which will make IPv6 assignments or sub-allocations to other organizations and announce the allocation in the inter-domain routing system within two years

- In "APNIC guidelines for IPv6 allocation and assignment requests":

- A new section 7.1.2 has been added, "Existing LIRs with IPv4 allocations from APNIC or an NIR"

- The previous section 7.1.2 has been renumbered 7.1.3 and renamed "Justifying an initial allocation larger than /32"

These drafts are intended to implement the consensus decision reached at APNIC 25 and endorsed by the Executive Council on 15 May 2008. Details of the original proposal and links to discussions are available at:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-057-v002.html

Associated web pages and forms will be updated on 4 August 2088, the day the policy is implemented.

Nature of the document review -----------------------------

This is an editorial review only. The APNIC community has already reached consensus on the policy issue that is to be implemented.

Therefore, during the comment period, interested parties may:

- Object to the draft document on the grounds that it does not properly reflect the consensus decision reached in the Policy Review Process - Suggest improvements of any aspect of the document - Request that an additional call for comment be made to allow more consideration of substantial revisions

Deadline for comments ---------------------

Your comments are requested by 28 July 2008. Please send your comments to the sig-policy mailing list. Details at:

http://www.apnic.net/community/lists

Regards

_____________________________________________________________________ Samantha Dickinson email: sam@apnic.net Policy Development Manager, APNIC sip: sam@voip.apnic.net http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100