APNIC policy proposals

How policies are developed

Policy development
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How to submit your own policy proposal

  1. Submit your proposal via the online policy proposal form.
  2. The APNIC Secretariat assigns your proposal a tracking number.
  3. The Chair of the appropriate APNIC SIG sends your proposal to the SIG's mailing list.

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Status of recent proposals

To be discussed at APNIC 26 [prop-059] Using the Resource Public Key Infrastructure to construct validated IRR data
Endorsed by all RIRs
Awaiting approval by the ASO AC and the ICANN Board
[prop-049] IANA policy for allocation of ASN blocks to RIRs
Awaiting EC endorsement
[prop-053] Changing minimum IPv4 allocation size to /22
[prop-054] NIR operational policy document revision
[prop-057] Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria
Returned to the mailing list for further discussion [prop-055] Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space
To be revised by the author [prop-050] IPv4 address transfers
Abandoned [prop-058] Proposal to create IPv4 shared use address space among LIRs
[prop-052] Cooperative distribution of the end of the IPv4 free pool
Withdrawn [prop-056] IPv4 soft landing

Past proposals