[sig-policy] New APNIC policies now active
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New APNIC policies now active
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On 16 February 2008, APNIC implemented three policy proposals that
reached consensus during APNIC 26 in Christchurch, New Zealand in August
2008. The APNIC Executive Council (EC) endorsed the proposals during
their November 2008 meeting. The three proposals implemented are:
prop-062: Use of final /8
When the total remaining space in the unallocated APNIC address
pool reaches a threshold of one /8, the following policies will
come into force:
- Each APNIC account holder that meets the criteria for
an IPv4 allocation will be eligible to request and receive a
single allocation no larger than the minimum allocation
size.
- A /16 will be held in reserve for future uses, as yet
unforeseen.
prop-064: Change to assignment policy for AS numbers
From 1 July 2009, networks requesting a two-byte AS number from
APNIC must demonstrate that a four-byte only AS number is
unsuitable.
prop-066: Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources
The utilization of historical IPv4 address space will now be
taken into account when any organization holding historical IPv4
addresses requests more IPv4 from APNIC.
Updated policy documents
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The comment period for the draft documents incorporating these policies
has ended. The updated documents are now officially active:
Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific
region
http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy.html
Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois
Database
http://www.apnic.net/policy/historical-resource-policies.html
Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia
Pacific region
http://www.apnic.net/policy/asn-policy.html
For more information on the history of the policy proposals, see:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals
Regards
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Samantha Dickinson email: sam at apnic dot net
Policy Development Manager, APNIC sip: sam at voip dot apnic dot net
http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100