On 3/08/11 7:34 AM, Andy Linton wrote:
> Dear SIG members
>
> The proposal "prop-100 National IP Address Plan - Allocation of
> country-wide IP address blocks " has been sent to the Policy SIG for
> review. It will be presented at the Policy SIG at APNIC 32 in Busan,
> Korea, Sunday, 28 August until Thursday, 1 September 2011.
>
> We invite you to review and comment on the proposal on the mailing list
> before the meeting.
>
> The comment period on the mailing list before an APNIC meeting is an
> important part of the policy development process. 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 and other policy proposals is available from:
>
>
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals
>
> Andy and Terence
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> prop-100-v001: National IP Address Plan - Allocation of country-wide IP
> address blocks
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> Author: Rakesh Mohan Agarwal
> <
ddgnt-dot at nic dot in>
>
> Version: 1
>
> Date: 2 August 2011
>
>
>
> 1. Introduction
> ---------------
>
> Right now IPv6 addresses are being allocated by APNIC to individual
> telecom Service Providers/internet service providers and other
> organisations just like allocation of IPv4 addresses in which telecom
> Service Providers/internet service providers and other organisations
> specially in India are not having contiguous IP address blocks.
>
> This causes inefficiencies in routing table as well as creating problems
> to Indian law enforcement agencies in tracing out the IP address of the
> end users.
>
> So taking cue from this problem Government of India (Department of
> Telecommunications) set up a committee for formulation of the National
> IPv6 address policy. This committee is a 15 members body having national
> and international members from all stakeholders. In the 2nd meeting of
> the committee held on 18th July 2011 in New Delhi members were of the
> opinion that India as a whole should ask for a bigger block of IPv6
> address from APNIC.
>
> However the exact requirement of this block will be worked out on the
> basis of IPv6 address allocated to various organisations such as telecom
> Service Providers/internet service providers and other organisations and
> new entrants like other central Government departments, State Government
> departments, public sector units, universalities, colleges, hospitals
> and other sectors in the country and their future requirement of IP
> addresses for next 20 years at least (as Ipv6 addresses are not going to
> be exhausted in these years).
>
> As right now APNIC policy does not allow address block to be allocated
> country wise so through this paper, we are seeking a change in the
> policy for allocation of IPv6 address country wise rather than
> individual organisations wise.
>
>
> 2. Summary of current problem
> -----------------------------
>
> Right now IP addresses are being allocated to the individual
> organizations and for their future requirements only IP address block
> for 1 year (approx) is being kept reserved, this is as per prevailing
> practices of allocation of IPv4 addresses. so again
>
> 1. Same problem of fragmented Addresses will be there as is in case
> of IPv4 Addresses, if contiguous addresses are not allocated to
> organisations and in turn to geographical locations.
>
> 2. In the current scenario it is very difficult for law enforcing
> agencies to identify miscreants timely.
>
>
> 3. Situation in other RIRs
> --------------------------
>
> Countries in other RIRs would be having same problems.
>
>
> 4. Details of the proposal
> --------------------------
>
> While in case of IPv6 Addresses there is huge availability of IP
> addresses so in India we want to have one big block of IPv6 Addresses
> say e.g./17 wanted to be reserved for us and allocated to Indian NIR
> when it becomes operational, this Address space will take care of
> requirement of all TSPs/ISPs industries and other organizations.
>
> The requirement of this block will be worked out on the basis of IPv6
> address allocated to various organisations such as telecom Service
> Providers/internet service providers and other organisations and new
> entrants like other central Government departments, State Government
> departments, public sector units, universalities, colleges, hospitals
> and other sectors in the country and their future requirement of IP
> addresses for next 20 years at least (as Ipv6 addresses are not going to
> be exhausted in these years).
>
> 5. Advantages and disadvantages of the proposal
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Advantages:
>
> 1.In addition to effective and efficient routing table all
> economies will be in a position to plan their IP address
> requirement on long term basis and accordingly they can reflect
> their requirement and get the suitable address block allocated
> either to their NIRs or get their block reserved in the APNIC.
>
> This would avoid discrepancies in address allocation country
> wise as happened in the case of IPv4 address allocation where
> most of the developing geographies could not get their due
> share, as in the case of India, where we are having only 18.5
> million IPv4 addresses for population of 1.2 billion and more
> than 360 million data users.
>
> 2. Workload of RIRs would come down drastically and they will be
> able to concentrate on more productive job compared to this
> routine job.
>
> Disadvantages:
>
> No disadvantage appears to be there right now.
>
>
> 6. Effect on APNIC Members
> --------------------------
>
> All APNIC members will get advantage out of the bigger address block
> allocated to them.
>
>
> 7. Effect on NIRs
> -----------------
>
> NIRs can allocate IP addresses to individual member in its geographical
> area as per their actual/focused plans.
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