APNIC policy proposals
How policies are developed
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How to submit your own policy proposal
- Submit your proposal via the online policy proposal form.
- The APNIC Secretariat assigns your proposal a tracking number.
- The Chair of the appropriate APNIC SIG sends your proposal to the SIG's mailing list.
Related links
- Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
- Working Groups (WGs)
- Birds of a Feather (BOFs)
- Policy proposals
Status of recent proposals
| To be discussed at APNIC 26 | [prop-059] Using the Resource Public Key Infrastructure to construct validated IRR data |
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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 |
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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| Withdrawn | [prop-056] IPv4 soft landing |

