Re: [sig-policy] Question on IPv6 assignment registration
Dear Yi Chu,
Thanks for asking for clarification on Section 5.6, Registration, in the
IPv6 Address Policy:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/ipv6-address-policy#5.6
To answer your questions:
1. LIRs are not required to maintain a local whois entry. The
APNIC Secretariat provides a private/public record management
tool in MyAPNIC for LIRs to use.
2. Yes, LIRs can register assignments publicly on the APNIC Whois
Database, or privately in MyAPNIC. The public whois assignment
record can be useful if the assigned network contacts are
different to the LIR contacts already listed in the whois record
of the parent block.
Assignments of a /48 and larger must be registered, at least in private
records, to calculate space utilization. It is optional to register any
prefix smaller than a /48, or several small prefixes can be merged into
an encompassing /48 record.
If the Policy SIG feels the text in the policy document needs
improvement, the Secretariat would appreciate feedback, so we can
review the text through the policy document editorial process.
http://www.apnic.net/policy/doc-editorial-policy
Regards,
________________________________________________________________________
Sanjaya email: sanjaya at apnic dot net
Services Director, APNIC sip: sanjaya at voip dot apnic dot net
http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100
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On 13/08/2011 6:08 AM, Chu, Yi [NTK] wrote:
I have a question on IPv6 assignment registration. If this is not the
right mailing list, please let me know.
Section 5.6 Registration in
http://www.apnic.net/policy/ipv6-address-policy/text states:
5.6 Registration
When an organization holding an IPv6 address allocation makes IPv6
address assignments, it must register assignment information in a
database, accessible by RIRs as appropriate (information
registered by an RIR/NIR may be replaced by a distributed database
for registering address management information in future).
Information is registered in units of assigned /48 networks. When
more than a /48 is assigned to an organization, the assigning
organization is responsible for ensuring that the address space is
registered in an RIR/NIR database.
My questions are
1.Does this mean LIR will need to maintain a local whois (or some
database that hosts the assignment records), that is publically
accessible, or at least accessible by APNIC?
2.If LIR chooses not to maintain a local whois database or equivalent,
can LIR register assignments between /64 and /48 to APNIC whois?
Any help clarify the requirement is greatly appreciated.
Yi Chu
Sprint
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