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RIR Policy Update

NIR SIG5 September 2007

APNIC 24 / SANOG 10, New Delhi, IndiaGuangliang Pan

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RIR New policies comparison

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IPv4 policy proposals

AbandonedLACNICWhois privacy

AdoptedRIPEIncrease AW to /21 to LIRafter 6 months

AdoptedAbandonedUnder discussion

AfriNICARINRIPE

PI Assignment Size (/24minimum for multi-homingnetwork)

AdoptedAdoptedAdopted

AfriNICLACNIC

RIPE

12 Month Allocation Period

StatusRIRPolicy

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IPv4 policy proposals

Discussion at APNIC 24AbandonedAbandonedUnder discussion

APNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

IPv4 count down

Under discussionRIPEChange in assignment forany casting DNS

Discussion at APNIC 24AbandonedAbandoned

APNICARIN

LACNIC

eGLOP Multicast addressspace

Under discussionRIPEDirect assignments to enduser

StatusRIRPolicy

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IPv4 policy proposals

Discussion at APNIC 24Under discussion

APNICARIN

IPv4 soft landing

Under discussionDiscussion at APNIC 24Under discussionReached consensusUnder discussion

AfriNICAPNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

Global policy for theallocation of the remainingIPv4 address space

StatusRIRPolicy

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IPv6 policy proposals

AdoptedAdoptedAbandonedUnder discussion

APNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

Amend IPv6 assignment andutilisation requirements (/56)

Discussion at APNIC 24AdoptedReached consensus

APNICARIN

LACNIC

Removal of “Interim” frompolicy document

AdoptedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedUnder discussion

AfriNICAPNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

HD-ratio to 0.94StatusRIRPolicy

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IPv6 policy proposals

“Show a reasonable plan”Discussion at APNIC 24Under discussion“Documented details plan”Removal 200* /48 & end site

AfriNICAPNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

Change initial allocationcriteria

Under discussionDiscussion at APNIC 24Under discussionWaiting for IETF

AfriNICAPNIC

LACNICRIPE

ULA central

Adopted (/48)Adopted (/48)Reached consensus (/32)Under discussion (/32)

AfriNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

Provider-independentassignments for endusers

StatusRIRPolicy

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Autonomous System numbers

Discussion at APNIC 24Under discussionReached consensusUnder discussionUnder discussion

APNICARIN

LACNICRIPE

AfriNIC

IANA policy for allocation ofASN blocks to RIRs

StatusRIRPolicy

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APNIC recent policy implementations

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prop-041: IPv6 assignment size tocritical infrastructure• Changed from “minimum /32” to “maximum

/32”.• Implemented 18 Dec 2006.

• Note: Critical infrastructures include rootDNS, gTLD, ccTLDs, IANA, RIRs andNIRs.

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prop-032: Four-byte ASNs

• 1 January 2007– APNIC delegates 4-byte AS numbers when requested.– Else, a 2-byte only AS number will be allocated by

default.• 1 January 2009

– APNIC delegates 2-byte only AS numbers whenrequested.

– Else, a 4-byte only AS number will be allocated bydefault.

• 1 January 2010– No distinction between 2-byte and 4-byte AS numbers.

• Assigned 2 and allocated 10

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prop-038: Amending APNIC's lameDNS reverse delegation policy• Implemented 1 Jan 2007.• Modifies APNIC's existing method for

identifying and removing lame DNS reversedelegations by adopting a definition oflameness that is consistent with generally-accepted best practice and other RIRs(where relevant).

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prop-033: End site assignment policy forIPv6prop-031: APNIC IPv6 utilisationrequirement• Implemented 9 Mar 2007.• Now you can assign /64 to /48 to your

customer network depends on theirrequirement.

• Measurement unit changed from /48 to /56.• HD ratio changed from 0.8 to 0.94

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prop-035: IPv6 portable assignment formultihoming• Implemented 9 Mar 2007.• An organisation is eligible to receive a

portable assignment from APNIC if it:- is currently multihomed with provider-based

addresses, or demonstrates a plan tomultihome within three months and,

- agrees to renumber out of previously assignedIPv6 address space.

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Thanks!