Hi Gaurav,

 

Thank you for offering your assistance, much appreciated. Unfortunately the details of unclaimed historical prefixes are not public, as this could make them vulnerable to hijacks.

 

However, if there are any unclaimed historical resources delegated to R&D entities in India, we will contact you off-list.

 

Thanks,

Vivek

 

From: Gaurav Kansal <gaurav.kansal@nic.in>
Date: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 at 8:42 pm
To: Vivek Nigam <vivek@apnic.net>
Cc: Sunny Chendi <sunny@apnic.net>, andrew@rwts.com.au <andrew@rwts.com.au>, jordi.palet@consulintel.es <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>, sig-policy@lists.apnic.net <sig-policy@lists.apnic.net>
Subject: Re: [sig-policy] prop-147-v001: Historical Resources Management

Hi Vivek,

 

Do we have public information available for 581+44 prefixes (which are under ’No response’ and ‘yet to contact’ category) ?

If it is available, then I (and other community member also) can try to contact the resource holders in my geographic area.

 

If not, then can we think of sharing this so that community can help APNIC in contacting the resource holders.

 

Thanks,

Gaurav Kansal



On 26-Aug-2022, at 13:15, vivek@apnic.net wrote:

 

Hi Andrew,

 

Please see my responses below.

 

> a) the number of legacy resources currently in use (as in, visible in the global table), but not yet claimed through this process

 

We started this project in February this year and identified 3932 historical IPv4 prefixes that were not managed under an APNIC account. 885 of these prefixes are currently visible in the routing table. Following if the breakdown of these 885 prefixes.

 

Retained by custodian: 81

These prefixes have successfully been claimed and are managed under active APNIC accounts now.

 

Being claimed by custodian: 175

We are in contact with the potential custodians and they are in the process of claiming these prefixes.

 

No response: 581

We have sent emails to the custodians but have not got a response as yet. We are in the process to find alternate contacts by contacting the ASN announcing these prefixes.

 

Yet to contact: 44

No valid contact information available in whois. We are in the process to look for alternate contacts via publicly available searches as well as contacting the ASN announcing these prefixes.   

 

No longer needed: 4

The custodians have informed us they no longer need these prefixes. We are in the process to contact the ASN announcing these prefixes to check why they are announcing them.

 

> b) the number of legacy resource claims that have been attempted but not successfully justified

 

So far we have not formally rejected any claims. Where a claimant does not provide sufficient information to support their claim, we do not reject the claim but rather advise them we will need more information in order to properly assess it. We have 3 pending cases where we have requested additional supporting information and one case where the custodian has refused to setup an APNIC account. We will continue to assist them with their claims through the year.

 

Thanks

Vivek

 

From: Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi <sunny@apnic.net>
Date: Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 6:02 pm
To: Andrew Yager <andrew@rwts.com.au>, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Cc: sig-policy@lists.apnic.net <sig-policy@lists.apnic.net>
Subject: [sig-policy] Re: prop-147-v001: Historical Resources Management

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for requesting data.
We will do our best to provide it as soon as possible.

Regards,
Sunny
APNIC Secretariat

On 24/08/2022 4:03 pm, Andrew Yager wrote:

Is there any data indicating:

 

a) the number of legacy resources currently in use (as in, visible in the global table), but not yet claimed through this process

b) the number of legacy resource claims that have been attempted but not successfully justified

 

I am aware that this has remained a topic of concern for a number of APNIC members and technical engineers, and many have been working with APNIC to try and resolve resource allocations with various degrees of success.

 

Andrew

 

 

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 09:36, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via sig-policy <sig-policy@lists.apnic.net> wrote:

Hi Sunny, all,

 

Just summited a new proposal version amending the editorial inputs and also adding the following text:

Furthermore, from 1st January 2023, all historical resources need to be maintained in a current APNIC account. In the event of an account closure, the historical resource will be placed in a quarantine period and then made available for re-delegation similar to current resources.

 

Also, in order to facilitate the job, I agree that will be safer to move to a single option with 12 months, so I’ve deleted the “2 choices” in the new version.

 

 

Regards,

Jordi

@jordipalet

 

 

 

El 23/8/22, 6:51, "Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi" <sunny@apnic.net> escribió:

 

Hi all, 

This is the secretariat's impact assessment for prop-147-v001, which is also 
available on the proposal page.

    http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-147

APNIC understands that this proposal suggests that historical IPv4 resources be justified and claimed, or that they be made available to other organizations that require them.

APNIC also notes the deletion of Section 4.2.1. Recovery of unused historical resources. As reported to the community at APNIC 50, this may no longer be applicable once the project is completed, possibly by the end of 2022.

https://conference.apnic.net/50/assets/files/APCS790/Reclaiming-unused-IPv4.pdf

Recommendations:

For consistency of language and to align with the current policy document, the reference to "available pool" could be changed to "free pool". Also the reference to "original resource holder" and "original custodians" could be changed to "custodian/s".

Given the number of uncontactable resource holders, the 12-month option would be safer for APNIC to implement, as some historical resource holders may not be aware of the changes to the treatment of historical resources until they are placed into reserved status on January 1, 2023.

Clarification:

This proposal only addresses historical resources that have not been claimed by January 1st, 2023. It does not specify what happens to the historical resources that are claimed, but the Member or Non-Member account is not renewed after January 1, 2023. These resources will be considered historical and may remain in reserve status indefinitely. 

Regards,
Sunny
APNIC Secretariat

On 11/08/2022 4:59 pm, chku wrote:

Dear SIG members,
 
The proposal "prop-147: Historical Resources Management" has been 
sent to the Policy SIG for review.
 
It will be presented at the Open Policy Meeting (OPM) at APNIC 54 on 
Thursday, 15 September 2022.
 
    https://conference.apnic.net/54/program/schedule/#/day/8
 
We invite you to review and comment on the proposal on the mailing list 
before the OPM.
 
The comment period on the mailing list before the OPM is an important 
part of the Policy Development Process (PDP). We encourage you to 
express your views on the proposal:
 
  - Do you support or oppose this proposal?
  - Does this proposal solve a problem you are experiencing? If so,
    tell the community about your situation.
  - Do you see any disadvantages in this proposal?
  - Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?
  - What changes could be made to this proposal to make it more effective?
 
Information about this proposal is appended below as well as available at:
 
    http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-147
 
Regards,
Bertrand, Shaila, and Ching-Heng
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
 
 
 
---------------------------------------------------------------
 
prop-147-v001: Historical Resources Management
 
----------------------------------------------------------------
 
Proposer: Jordi Palet Martinez (jordi.palet@theipv6company.comAnupam)
          Anupam Agrawal (anupamagrawal.in@gmail.com)
 
 
1. Problem statement
--------------------
Section 4.2.1 is outdated and only looking for very old non-routed resources.
 
The recent EC resolution (22nd February 2022), imply that historical resource holders in the APNIC region would need to become Members or Non-Members by 1st January 2023 in order to receive registration services. Failing this, historical resource registration will no longer be published in the APNIC Whois Database and said resources will be placed into reserved status.
 
Given the continued need for IPv4 addresses, it would seem illogical to keep these unused historical resources in reserve indefinitely. Alternatively, these resources can be used in a way that is sufficiently justified in accordance with existing policies, allowing other organizations to benefit from them during the IPv6 transition.
 
 
2. Objective of policy change
-----------------------------
Ensure that historical IPv4 resources are justified and claimed, or that they are available for other organizations that require them.
 
If the resources are marked as reserved, the original holders may reclaim them with a valid justification, when APNIC failed to contact them for whatever reason.
 
One example of a valid justification is the case where an organization is actually using them internally and there are valid reasons to instead use RFC1918 space, however the space is not routed.
 
To give the original resource holders more time to reclaim them, we propose two time-frames for the community discussion and consideration: 6 months and 12 months.
 
 
3. Situation in other regions
-----------------------------
In other RIRs legacy resources lose their legacy status when the RSA is signed (upon receiving other resources), so they become under the regular monitoring. In other cases, there is nothing specified by policies.
 
 
4. Proposed policy solution
---------------------------
Proposed policy solution (option 6-months):
 
Actual text:
4.2.1. Recovery of unused historical resources   (remove)
To recover these globally un-routed resources and place them back in the free pool for re-delegation, APNIC will contact networks responsible for historical address space in the APNIC region that has not been globally routed since 1 January 1998. 
 
To recover un-routed historical AS numbers, APNIC will contact networks responsible for resources not globally used for a reasonable period of time.    
 
Proposed text:
4.3. Historical Resources Management
Historical resources that have not been claimed by the original resource holder will be deleted from the APNIC Whois database after 1st January 2023, and marked as reserved.
 
Historical resources marked as reserved have an additional six (6) months to be claimed by their original custodians. After that, APNIC will add these resources to the available pool for re-delegation.
 
Proposed policy solution (option 12-months):
Actual text:
4.2.1. Recovery of unused historical resources   (remove)
To recover these globally un-routed resources and place them back in the free pool for re-delegation, APNIC will contact networks responsible for historical address space in the APNIC region that has not been globally routed since 1 January 1998. 
 
To recover un-routed historical AS numbers, APNIC will contact networks responsible for resources not globally used for a reasonable period of time.    
   
Proposed text:
4.3. Historical Resources Management
Historical resources that have not been claimed by the original resource holder will be deleted from the APNIC Whois database after 1st January 2023, and marked as reserved.
 
Historical resources marked as reserved have an additional twelve (12) months to be claimed by their original custodians. After that, APNIC will add these resources to the available pool for re-delegation.
 
 
5. Advantages / Disadvantages
-----------------------------
Advantages:
Fulfilling the objective above indicated.
 
Disadvantages:
None.
 
 
6. Impact on resource holders
-----------------------------
None.
 
 
7. References
-------------
None.
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