Issue Date:

Revision:

IPv4 Address Transfers

and Policies

HKNOG 1.1

Zen Ng

[17 April 2015]

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HK Membership growth

2

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

2011 2012 2013 2014 Total

Total HK Members

HK Membership growth

3

0

50

100

150

200

250

2012 2013 2014

Hong Kong

Japan

Australia

Agenda

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• APNIC Policy Updates

• Recent policy implementation

• Policy discussion in 2015

• Transfer Policies and Procedures

• Transfer policies

• Transfer procedures (IPv4 and ASN transfer between members)

• Transfer services

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APNIC Policy Updates

Policy Development Process (PDP)

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Why is Policy Development

Important?

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• Fair and consistent distribution of Internet number

resources

• Anyone can participate in how Internet number resources

are managed

– How much Internet number resources you can get

– How IP addresses are transferred

Policy Implementations in 2014

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prop-107: AS number transfer proposal16 April

7 May

27 May

prop-109: Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24

to APNIC Labs as Research Prefixes

prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4

address blocks (Modification of prop-088)

Prop-105: Distribution of returned

IPv4 address block

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• What does it mean?

– Members are eligible to receive an additional /22 IPv4 (non 103/8)

block from APNIC

• Where does this /22 block come from?

– IPv4 blocks returned by RIR to IANA

• Spirit of this policy?

– To help Members with their organization needs and move forward

to IPv6 address

HK Members who received additional

/22 under prop 105

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197

377

HK members who have receivedadditional /22 (non103/8) underprop105

HK members who have notreceived additional /22(non103/8) under prop105

Total HK Members: 574

Proposal discussed at APNIC 39

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Abandoned

• prop-112 - On demand expansion of IPv6 address allocation size in

legacy IPv6 space

• More information on APNIC Policy Development:

– https://www.apnic.net/policy

- Returned to the mailing list for further discussion

• prop-115 - Registration of detailed assignment information in whois

DB

• prop-114 - Modification in the ASN eligibility criteria

• prop-113 - Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria

Prop-112: On demand expansion of IPv6

address allocation size in legacy IPv6 space

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• Legacy IPv6 space delegated before the first APNIC IPv6

address policy implemented

• Initially a /35, upgraded to /32

• When legacy IPv6 space is delegated, a /29 is reserved

• Author is proposing that members are entitled to the

remaining /29 without demonstrating the needs

• Community did not want to remove demonstrated need for

a small subset

• Author has abandoned the proposal

Prop-113: Modification in the IPv4

eligibility criteria

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• To remove the multi-home requirement in order apply for

IPv4 assignment

• Helpful for ISPs that are not multi-homed and does not

meet the requirement for /22 allocation

• Consequence? Would finish the final /8 much more

quicker. E.g. ARIN and LACNIC

• Returned to the mailing list for further discussion

Prop-114: Modification in the ASN

eligibility criteria

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• Eases the requirement for multi-homing

• Operators should be allowed to build their network like

how they want it to be

• Argument: Network operators could use a private ASN for

this purpose and there is no strong technical reason for

this requirement

• Returned to the mailing list for further discussion

Prop-115: Registration of detailed

assignment information in Whois DB

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• Adding more specific assignment data (port range

information) into the APNIC Whois Database.

• To enable more specific filtering of harmful traffic

• Made available only to operators for security reason.

– Flexibility of APNIC Whois handling this information?

• Did not reach consensus, and returned to the mailing list

for further discussion

More on Policy

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• Single policy document

– To make it easier for users to consult the policy documentation,

APNIC Secretariat has recently merged seven different policy

documents in a single policy manual.

– www.apnic.net/policy/resources

• Policy Champions program

– A campaign to encourage NOGs to participate in the Policy

Development Process

Improvement to PDP

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APNIC Confer tool

Live Demo of Confer Tool

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• HKNOG 2015 is a successful event?- Strongly agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly disagree

• To test:

• Browse to www.confer.apnic.net

• Register email address, password, display name and start voting!

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Transfer Policies and

Procedures

Transfer Policies

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• IPv4 and ASN Transfer

• Transfer due to merger/ acquisition

• Transfer of historical internet resources

IPv4 and ASN Transfer

(prop50 + prop107)

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• Transfer of IPv4 and AS Numbers between

– APNIC members (✓)

– APNIC and NIR (✓)

– APNIC and RIR (✓)

• Spirit of this policy:

– Allow members to transfer unused IPv4 and ASN to members who

still need them

Transfer of IPv4 and AS Numbers

between APNIC Members

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• Most common transfer request from HK Members

• How to initiate such transfer request?

– Source account to initiate transfer and recipient account to accept

transfer via MyAPNIC

– Recipient account to justify the needs of the resources that will be

transferred

• Is there any transfer fees involved?

– www.apnic.net/fees

Transfer of IPv4 and AS Numbers

between APNIC and NIR

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• What does it mean?

– Transfer from NIR member to APNIC member or vice versa

• Source account to initiate transfer request

• IR of source account to contact IR of recipient account

• Who will be evaluating the request?

– IR of the recipient account to evaluate transfer request

• How long the whole process will take?

– Depends on how long correspondence is between the recipient and

IR

Transfer of IPv4 and AS Numbers

between APNIC and RIR

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• Similar to transfer between NIR and RIR

• Transfer from RIR Member to APNIC Member, or vice

versa

• Source account to initiate transfer request

• IR of the recipient account to evaluate transfer request

• More information on: www.apnic.net/transfer

Total number of IPv4 transfer

over the years

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0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Total

HK

How many IPv4 transfers involved in

final /8 (103/8)

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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

2011 2012 2013 2014 Total

non-103/8

103/8

(Not including the

recycle pool)

Transfer Policies

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• IPv4 and ASN Transfer

• Transfer due to merger/ acquisition

• Transfer of historical internet resources

Transfer due to merger/ acquisition

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• Due to organization restructure/ acquisition of one

organization by another

• What documentation are required?

– e.g. sales/ transfer agreement issue by local authorities

• Transfer Condition: recipient account needs to become an

APNIC Member

• No transfer fees are involved

• Next renewal fee is calculated based on total resource

holding

Transfer Policies

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• IPv4 and ASN Transfer

• Transfer due to merger/ acquisition

• Transfer of historical internet resources

Transfer of historical Internet resources

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• What are historical resources?

– Resources delegated before APNIC was established, or had management

authority over the ranges in question

• If you are managing historical resources, you will have the

option to transfer them

• Once transferred, the renewal fee of the resources will be

calculated based on the normal membership renewal fee

• www.apnic.net/services/manage-resources/historical

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Transfer Procedures

IPv4 and ASN transfer between APNIC members

Submit transfer via MyAPNIC

(source account)

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Submit transfer request via MyAPNIC

(source account)

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Submit transfer request via MyAPNIC

(recipient account)

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Transfer Services

• IPv4 pre-approval

• IPv4 transfer listing service

• APNIC registered IPv4 brokers

IPv4 Transfer Pre-approval

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• To allow recipient account to demonstrate the need for the

IPv4 block that will be transferred in advance

• Assure recipient account of a certain amount of IPv4

addresses

• Recipient account to complete the “Transfer pre-approval”

form via MyAPNIC

• For more information, please visit:

– http://www.apnic.net/pre-approval

Transfer Pre-approval form in MyAPNIC

(recipient account)

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IPv4 Transfer listing service

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• List Members who have received pre-approval from

APNIC, and have given APNIC permission to make their

needs on a public website

• To help source account make contact with recipient

account that requires more IPv4 address

• For more information, please visit:

– http://www.apnic.net/pre-approval-listing

IPv4 Transfer listing service

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APNIC Transfers Mailing List

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• Facilitate discussion on topics related to IPv4 transfer

• Share availability of unused IPv4 address

• Discuss your requirement of IPv4 address

• To subscribe to the mailing list, please go to:

– www.apnic.net/mailing-lists

You’re Invited!

• APNIC 40: Jakarta, Indonesia from 3 - 10 Sept 2015

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