Version 3 of prop-113: Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria, reached consensus at the APNIC 40 Open Policy Meeting and later at the APNIC Member Meeting (AMM).
This proposal will now move to the next step in the APNIC Policy Development Process and is being returned to the Policy SIG mailing list for the final Comment Period.
At the end of this period the Policy SIG Chairs will evaluate comments made and determine if the consensus reached at APNIC 40 still holds. The Chairs may extend the Comment Period to a maximum of eight (8) weeks to allow further discussion.
If consensus holds, the Chair of the Policy SIG will ask the Executive Council to endorse the proposal for implementation.
- Send all comments and questions to: <sig-policy at apnic dot net> - Deadline for comments: 23:59 (UTC +10) Sunday, 11 October 2015
Proposal details ----------------
This is a proposal changes the criteria for IPv4 address requests from end-user organizations considering multihoming.
Proposal details, including the full text of the proposal, history, and links to the APNIC 40 meeting archive, are available at:
The current APNIC IPv4 delegation policy defines multiple eligibility criteria and applicants must meet one criteria to be eligible to receive IPv4 resources. One of the criteria dictates that “an organization is eligible if it is currently multi-homed with provider-based addresses, or demonstrates a plan to multi-home within one month” (section 3.3).
The policy seems to imply that multi-homing is mandatory even if there is no use case for the applicant to be multi-homed or even when there is only one upstream provider available, this has created much confusion in interpreting this policy.
As a result organizations have either tempted to provide incorrect or fabricated multi-homing information to get the IPv4 resources or barred themselves from applying.
2. Objective of policy change -----------------------------
In order to make the policy guidelines simpler we are proposing to modify the text of section 3.3.
3. Situation in other regions -----------------------------
ARIN: There is no multi-homing requirement
RIPE: There is no multi-homing requirement.
LACNIC: Applicant can either have multi-homing requirement or interconnect.
- currently utilising provider (ISP) assignment of at least a /24, AND intends to be multi-homed, OR
- intends to be multi-homed, AND advertise the prefixes within 6 months
Organizations requesting a delegation under these terms must demonstrate that they are able to use 25% of the requested addresses immediately and 50% within one year.
Simplifies the process of applying for IPv4 address space for small delegations and delays the immediate requirement for multi-homing as determined to be appropriate within the timeframe as detailed in Section 3.3.
Disadvantages:
There is no known disadvantage of this proposal.
6. Impact on resource holders -----------------------------