Eligibility for an APNIC portable assignment

Criteria

Availability

Description

Multihoming

IPv4 and IPv6

Organisations seeking an IPv4 multihoming assignment must meet the criteria described in section 11.1 of Policies for Address Space Management in the Asia Pacific Region.

In particular, an organisation is eligible to receive a portable assignment from APNIC if it:

• is currently multihomed with provider-based addresses, or
• demonstrates a plan to multihome within one month; and
• agrees to renumber out of previously assigned address space.

IXP

IPv4 and IPv6

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are eligible to receive a portable assignment from APNIC for use on their IXP transit LAN. IXPs may request the following assignment sizes:

• IPv4 - a minimum assignment of /24
• IPv6 - a minimum assignment of /48

APNIC may make multiple assignments of these sizes, where justified.

Critical infrastructure

IPv4 and IPv6

Organisations seeking assignment for critical infrastructure must be an actual operator of the network infrastructure performing the following functions:

• root domain name system (DNS) server
• global top level domain (gTLD) DNS server
• country code TLD (ccTLDs) DNS server
• Regional Internet Registry (RIRs)
• National Internet Registry (NIRs)

These organisations are entitled to request the following assignment sizes:

• IPv4 - a minimum assignment of /24
• IPv6 - a maximum assignment of /32 per operator

Note: registrar organisations not hosting the network that houses the registry infrastructure are not eligible for an assignment under this policy.