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Policy proposals

This page lists all current policy proposals, their status in the APNIC Policy Development Process (PDP), and the Secretariat impact assessment.

To be discussed at APNIC 60

  • prop-162: WHOIS Privacy
  • prop-164: Allocations of IPv6 Resources longer than a /32 with a nibble boundary alignment

Did not reach consensus at APNIC 59

  • prop-163: Enhancing WHOIS Transparency and Efficiency Through Referral Server Implementation

Implemented

On behalf of the APNIC community we would like to acknowledge the proposal authors for their contribution to the bottom-up policy development process.

Proposal Number Proposal Title Author/s Proposed Year OPM Implemented Year

prop-156:

 Assignment of Temporary IP Resources Christopher Hawker 2023 APNIC 57 2025

prop-154:

 Resizing of IPv4 assignment for the IXPs Simon Sohel Baroi and Aftab Siddiqui 2023 APNIC 57 2025

prop-155

 IPv6 PI assignment for associate members Aftab Siddiqui and Simon Sohel Baroi 2023 APNIC 56 2024

prop-151

 Restricting non hierarchical as-set Aftab Siddiqui 2023 APNIC 55 2023

prop-150

 ROA/whois object with Private, Reserved and Unallocated (reserved/available) Origin ASN Aftab Siddiqui 2023 APNIC 55 2023

prop-147

 Historical Resources Management Jordi Palet Martínez 2022 APNIC 54 2023

prop-146

 Aligning the Contrast Anupam Agarwal 2022 APNIC 54 2022

prop-145

 Single Source for Definitions Anupam Agrawal 2022 APNIC 55 2023

prop-144

 Reserve pool under Experimental Allocation Policy Anupam Agarwal, Amirta Choudhury, and Simon Sohel Baroi 2022 APNIC 53 2022

prop-143

 ASN to Customer Jordi Palet Martínez and Anupam Agarwal 2022 APNIC 53 2022

prop-142

 Unify Transfer Policies Text Jordi Palet Martínez and Amrita Choudhury 2022 APNIC 53 2022

prop-140

 Update End-Site Definition Jordi Palet Martínez 2021 APNIC 52 2021

prop-139

 SOR not required Jordi Palet Martínez 2021 APNIC 52 2021

prop-138

 Restricting AS-ID in ROA Aftab Siddiqui 2021 APNIC 52 2021

prop-136

 Registration Requirements Simon Sohel Baroi and Amrita Choudhury 2021 APNIC 52 2021

prop-135

 Documentation Amrita Choudhury and Simon Sohel Baroi 2021 APNIC 52 2021

prop-133

 Clarification on Sub-Assignments Jordi Palet Martínez 2020 APNIC 49 2021
prop-132 RPKI ROAs for unallocated and unassigned APNIC address space (was: AS0 for
Bogons)		 Aftab Siddiqui 2019 APNIC 48 2020
prop-131 Editorial changes in IPv6 Policy Jordi Palet Martínez 2019 APNIC 48 2020
prop-129 Abolish Waiting list for unmet IPv4 requests Aftab Siddiqui 2019 APNIC 47 2019
prop-128 Multihoming not required for ASN Jordi Palet Martínez 2019 APNIC 47 2019
prop-125 Validation of “abuse-mailbox” and other IRT emails Jordi Palet Martínez and Aftab Siddiqui 2018 APNIC 46 2019
prop-127 Change maximum delegation size of 103/8 IPv4 address pool to a /23 Ching-Heng Ku, Aftab Siddiqui, Yen-Chieh Wang 2019 APNIC 47 2019
prop-122 Updating “Subsequent IPv6 allocation” policy Jordi Palet Martínez 2017 APNIC 44 2017
prop-121 Updating “Initial IPv6 allocation” policy Jordi Palet Martínez 2017 APNIC 44 2017
prop-117 Returned IPv4 address management and Final /8 exhaustion Tomohiro Fujisaki 2017 APNIC 43 2017
prop-116 Prohibit to transfer IPv4 addresses in the final /8 block Tomohiro Fujisaki 2016 APNIC 42 2017
prop-114 Modification in the ASN eligibility criteria Aftab Siddiqui, Skeeve Stevens 2015 APNIC 39 2016
prop-113 Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria Aftab Siddiqui, Skeeve Stevens 2015 APNIC 39 2016
prop-109 Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 to APNIC Labs as Research Prefixes Geoff Huston 2014 APNIC 37 2014
prop-108 Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy Development Process Dean Pemberton, Izumi Okutani 2013 APNIC 36 2014
prop-107 AS number transfer policy proposal Tomohiro Fujisaki 2013 APNIC 36 2014
prop-105 Distribution of returned IPv4 address (Modification of prop-088) Tomohiro Fujisaki 2013 APNIC 35 2014
prop-104 Clarifying demonstrated needs requirement in IPv4 transfer policy Shin SHIRAHATA, Norisuke HIRAI, Akira NAKAGAWA 2012 APNIC 34 2013
prop-102 Sparse allocation guidelines for IPv6 resource allocations Dean Pemberton, Ren-Hung Hwang 2012 APNIC 33 2012
prop-101 Removing multihoming requirement for IPv6 portable assignments David Woodgate 2012 APNIC 33 2013
prop-097 Global policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA Alejandro Acosta, Nicolas Antoniello, S. Moonesamy, Douglas Onyango,
Medel Ramirez, Masato
Yamanishi		 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-096 Maintaining demonstrated needs requirement in transfer policy after the
final /8 phase		 Tomohiro Fujisaki, Co-authors Masaru Akai, Fuminori Tanizaki, Toshio
Tachibana, Akira Nakagawa		 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-095 Inter-RIR IPv4 address transfer proposal Tomohiro Fujisaki, CO AUTHOR: Fuminori Tanizaki, Masaru Akai, Toshio
Tachibana, Akira Nakagaw		 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-094 Removing renumbering requirement from final /8 policy Izumi Okutani, Terence Zhang Yinghao 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-093 Reducing the minimum delegation size for the final /8 policy Randy Bush, Andy Linton, Philip Smith, Terence Zhang Yinghao 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-088 Distribution of IPv4 addresses once the final /8 period starts Randy Bush, Philip Smith 2010 APNIC 31 2011
prop-083 Alternative criteria for subsequent IPv6 allocations Skeeve Stevens 2010 APNIC 29 2011
prop-082 Removing aggregation criteria for IPv6 initial allocations Tomohiro Fujisaki, Akira Nakagawa ,Fuminori Tanizaki, Masaru Akai , Toshio
Tachibana		 2010 APNIC 29 2010
prop-080 Removal of IPv4 prefix exchange policy Guangliang Pan 2010 APNIC 29 2010
prop-079 Abuse contact information Tobias Knecht 2010 APNIC 29 2010
prop-075 Ensuring efficient use of historical AS numbers Guangliang Pan 2009 APNIC 28 2010
prop-074 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN
Blocks (ASNs) to Regional
Internet
Registries Ratified by the ICANN Board Executive Committee and implemented by the
IANA		 Andrew de la Haye, Stacy Hughes 2009 APNIC 28 2009
prop-073 Simplifying allocation/assignment of IPv6 to APNIC members with existing
IPv4 addresses		 Terry Manderson,Andy Linton 2009 APNIC 28 2010
prop-066 Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources Brenda D. Tarimel, Philip Smith, James Spenceley 2008 APNIC 26 2009
prop-065 Format for delegation and recording of 4-byte AS numbers James Spenceley 2008 APNIC 26 2008
prop-064 Change to assignment policy for AS numbers James Spenceley 2008 APNIC 26 2009
prop-062 Use of final /8 Philip Smith, Jonny Martin, Randy Bush 2008 APNIC 26 2009
prop-061 32-bit ASNs for documentation purposes Philip Smith, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Tomoya Yoshida 2008 APNIC 26 2008
prop-057 Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria Toshiyuki Hosaka, Izumi Okutani 2008 APNIC 25 2008
prop-055 Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space Roque Gagliano, ANTEL, Francisco Obispo, CENIT, Haitham EL Nakhal, MCIT,
Didier Allain Kla, ISOC
Cote
d’Ivoire, JPNIC IPv4 countdown policy team: Akinori Maemura, Akira Nakagawa, Izumi Okutani,
Kosuke
Ito,
Kuniaki Kondo, Shuji Nakamura, Susumu Sato, Takashi Arano, Tomohiro Fujisaki, Tomoya Yoshida,
Toshiyuki
Hosaka		 2008 APNIC 25 2009
prop-054 NIR operational policy document revision Sanjaya, Terry Manderson 2008 APNIC 25 2008
prop-053 Changing minimum IPv4 allocation size to /22 Rajesh Chharia 2008 APNIC 25 2008
prop-050 IPv4 address transfers Geoff Huston, Philip Smith 2007 APNIC 24 2010
prop-049 IANA policy for allocation of ASN blocks to RIRs AfriNIC, APNIC,ARIN,LACNIC,RIPE NCC 2007 APNIC 24 2007
prop-041 IPv6 assignment size to critical infrastructure APNIC 2006 APNIC 22 2006
prop-038 Amending APNIC’s lame DNS reverse delegation policy Terry Manderson 2006 APNIC 22 2007
prop-035 IPv6 portable assignment for multihoming Katsuyasu Toyama, Takashi Arano, Tomohiro Fujisaki, Toshinori Ishii,
Kosuke Ito, Dai Nishino,
Noriaktsu
Ohishi, Izumi Okutani		 2006 APNIC 22 2007
prop-033 End site assignment policy for IPv6 Geoff Huston, Randy Bush 2006 APNIC 22 2007
prop-032 4-byte AS number policy proposal Adopted by all RIRs Geoff Huston 2005 APNIC 21 2007
prop-031 Proposal to amend APNIC IPv6 assignment and utilisation requirement
policy		 Stephan Millet, Geoff Huston 2005 APNIC 20 2007
prop-030 Deprecation of ip6.int reverse DNS service in APNIC Sanjaya 2005 APNIC 20 2006
prop-027 The second phase of Large Space IPv4 Trial Usage Program for Future IPv6
Deployment		 Kosuke Ito, Yoshiyuki Ezura, Tsukasa Ogino, Gaku Hashimoto 2005 APNIC 19 2005
prop-026 APNIC to publish address assignment statistics Toshiyuki Hosaka 2005 APNIC 19 2005
prop-025 Proposal on IPv6 IRR service at APNIC Toyama Katsuyasu 2004 APNIC 18 2006
prop-022 A proposal to abolish redundant charges in IPv6 allocations Izumi Okutani 2004 APNIC 18 2005
prop-021 Expansion of the initial allocation space for existing IPv6 address space
holders		 Tomohiro Fujisaki 2004 APNIC 18 2005
prop-018 Protecting historical records in the APNIC Whois Database APNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2004
prop-017 Recovery of unused address space APNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2005
prop-016 IPv6 allocations to IPv4 networks APNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2004
prop-015 Should APNIC allocate global unicast IPv6 address space to ‘unconnected’
networks?		 APNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2004
prop-014 A proposal to lower the IPv4 minimum allocation size and initial
allocation criteria in the Asia
Pacific
region		 APNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2004
prop-012 Improving reliability of IRR database Masasi Eto 2003 APNIC 16 2003
prop-011 IXP assignments Consensus elements of proposal were
implemented		 Bill Woodcock 2003 APNIC 16 2004
prop-010 Protecting resource records in APNIC Whois Database APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2004
prop-008 IANA IPv4 resource request procedures Adopted by all RIRs Randy Bush 2003 APNIC 16 2003
prop-007 Privacy of customer assignment records Joint RIRs 2003 APNIC 16 2005
prop-006 Supporting historical resource transfers APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2004
prop-005 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) policy for allocation of IPv6
blocks to Regional Internet
Registries Adopted by all RIRs		 APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2004
prop-004 Lame delegation cleanup revised APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2006
prop-002 Documentation policy APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2004
prop-001 Policy process modification APNIC 2003 APNIC 16 2003

On behalf of the APNIC community we would like to acknowledge the proposal authors for their contribution to
the bottom-up policy development process.

Abandoned and Withdrawn

Proposal Number Proposal Title Author/s Proposed Year OPM Abandoned Year
prop-160 Change IPv6 Initial assignment to /44 for Organizations Eligible for multihoming Md. Rafeeun Noby Babir and Muhammad Redwanul Karim 2024 APNIC 58 2025
prop-161 Using IPv6 for Internet of Things (IoT) Guangliang Pan (Benny), Wei Wong (Wesley), Qiang Li, Yaling Tan 2024 APNIC 58 2024
prop-159 Reduction of minimum IPv6 allocation size form /32 to /36 Christopher Munz-Michielin 2024 APNIC 58 2024
prop-158 IPv6 auto-allocation for each IPv4 request David Aditya Yoga Pratama and M. Andri Setiawan 2024 APNIC 57 2024
prop-157 Temporary IPv4 Transfers Jordi Palet Martinez 2024 APNIC 57 2024
prop-153 Proposed changes to PDP Bertrand Cherrier 2023 APNIC 56 2023
prop-152 Reduce the IPv4 delegation from /23 to /24 Rajesh Chharia and Vivek Narayan 2023 APNIC 56 2023
prop-149 Change of maximum delegation for less than /21 total IPv4 holdings Shubham Agarwal and Gaurav Kansal 2023 APNIC 55 2023
prop-148 Leasing of Resources is not Acceptable Jordi Palet Martinez, Amrita Choudhury, and Fernando Frediani 2022 APNIC 54 2023
prop-141 Change maximum delegation size of IPv4 address from 512 ( /23 ) to 768 (/23+/24) addresses Simon Sohel Baroi and Aftab Siddiqui 2021 APNIC 52 2022
prop-137 IPv6 assignment for associate members Simon Sohel Baroi and Aftab Siddiqui 2021 APNIC 52 2023
prop-130 Modification of transfer policies Jordi Palet Martínez 2019 APNIC 48 2021
prop-134 PDP Update Jordi Palet Martínez 2020 APNIC 49 2020
prop-126 PDP Update Jordi Palet Martínez 2018 APNIC 46 2019
prop-124 Clarification on Sub-Assignments Jordi Palet Martínez 2018 APNIC 46 2019
prop-118 No need policy in APNIC region Heng Lu 2017 APNIC 43 2019
prop-123 Modify 103/8 IPv4 transfer policy Alex Yang 2018 APNIC 45 2018
prop-120 Final /8 pool exhaustion plan Tomohiro Fujisaki 2017 APNIC 44 2018
prop-119 Temporary transfers David Hilario 2017 APNIC 44 2018
prop-115 Registration of detailed assignment information in whois DB Ruri Hiromi, Tomohiro Fujisaki 2015 APNIC 39 2016
prop-112 On demand expansion of IPv6 address allocation size in legacy IPv6 space Tomohiro Fujisaki 2015 APNIC 39 2015
prop-111 Request-based expansion of IPv6 default allocation size Tomohiro Fujisaki 2014 APNIC 37 2014
prop-110 Designate 1.2.3.0/24 as Anycast to support DNS Infrastructure Dean Pemberton, Geoff Huston 2014 APNIC 37 2014
prop-106 Restricting excessive IPv4 address transfers under the final /8 block Shin SHIRAHATA, Tomohiro Fujisaki 2013 APNIC 35 2013
prop-103 A Final IP Address Policy Proposal Randy Bush 2012 APNIC 34 2012
prop-100 National IP Address Plan – Allocation of country-wide IP address blocks Rakesh Mohan Agarwal 2011 APNIC 32 2012
prop-099 IPv6 Reservation for Large Networks Xing Li, Song Jiang, Xiaomin Zhou, Haijin Li 2011 APNIC 32 2012
prop-098 Optimizing IPv6 allocation strategies (simplified) Owen DeLong 2011 APNIC 32 2012
prop-092 Distribution of additional APNIC IPv4 address ranges after IANA exhaustion David Woodgate 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-091 Limiting of final /8 policy to specific /9 David Woodgate 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-090 Optimizing IPv6 allocation strategies Owen DeLong 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-089 Additional criterion for final /8 allocations (and assignments) David Woodhouse 2011 APNIC 31 2011
prop-087 IPv6 address allocation for deployment purposes Tomohiro Fujisaki 2010 APNIC 30 2011
prop-086 Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion Steve Bertrand, Chris Grundemann, Aaron Hughes, Louie Lee, Matt Pounsett, Jason Schiller 2010 APNIC 30 2011
prop-085 Eligibility for critical infrastructure assignments from the final /8 Terence Zhang Yinghao, Wendy Zhao Wei 2010 APNIC 30 2011
prop-084 Frequent whois information update request Tobias Knecht 2010 APNIC 30 2011
prop-081 Eligibility for assignments from the final /8 Terence Zhang Yinghao, Jane Zhang, Wendy Zhao Wei 2010 APNIC 29 2010
prop-078 Reserving /10 IPv4 address space to facilitate IPv6 deployment Terence Zhang Yinghao, Jane Zhang, Wendy Zhao Wei 2009 APNIC 28 2010
prop-077 Proposal to supplement transfer policy of historical IPv4 addresses Terence Zhang Yinghao, Jane Zhang, Wendy Zhao Wei 2009 APNIC 28 2010
prop-076 Requiring aggregation for IPv6 subsequent allocations Tomohiro Fujisaki,Akira Nakagawa, Toshio Tachibana, Fuminori Tanizaki 2009 APNIC 28 2010
prop-072 Reapplication limits when transferring address space Philip Smith 2009 APNIC 28 2009
prop-071 Justifying receiving IPv4 address space Philip Smith 2009 APNIC 28 2009
prop-070 Maximum IPv4 allocation size James Spenceley, Jonny Martin 2009 APNIC 27 2009
prop-069 Global policy proposal for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries Adiel A. Akplogan, AfriNIC Raul Echeberria, LACNIC, Maemura Akinori, APNIC, Geoff Huston, APNIC,
Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC, Ray Plzak, ARIN, Oscar A. Robles-Garay, LACNIC, Nigel Titley, RIPE NCC,
Paul
Wilson, APNIC		 2009 APNIC 27 2011
prop-068 Inter-RIR transfer policy Geoff Huston 2009 APNIC 27 2009
prop-067 A simple transfer proposal Randy Bush, Philip Smith 2008 APNIC 27 2009
prop-063 Reducing timeframe of IPv4 allocations from twelve to six months Philip Smith, Randy Bush, Jonny Martin 2008 APNIC 26 2009
prop-060 Change in the criteria for the recognition of NIRs in the APNIC region Kusumba Sridhar 2008 APNIC 26 2008
prop-059 Using the Resource Public Key Infrastructure to construct validated IRR data Randy Bush 2008 APNIC 26 2008
prop-058 Proposal to create IPv4 shared use address space among LIRs Shirou Niinobe, Takeshi Tomochika, Jiro Yamaguchi, Dai Nishino, Hiroyuki Ashida, Akira Nakagawa,
Toshiyuki Hosaka		 2008 APNIC 25 2008
prop-056 IPv4 Soft Landing David Conrad 2008 APNIC 25 2008
prop-052 Cooperative distribution of the end of the IPv4 free pool Tony Hain 2007 APNIC 25 2008
prop-051 Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space Roque Gagliano , ANTEL, Francisco Obispo, CENIT, Haitham EL Nakhal, MCIT, Didier Allain Kla,
ISOC
Cote d’Ivoire		 2007 APNIC 24 2007
prop-048 IPv6 ULA-central Jordi Palet Martinez 2007 APNIC 24 2007
prop-047 eGLOP multicast address assignments Marshall Eubanks, David Meyer 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-046 IPv4 countdown policy proposal JPNIC IPv4 countdown policy team 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-045 Proposal to modify “end site” definition and allow end sites to receive IPv6 allocations Jordi Palet Martinez 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-044 Proposal to remove requirement to document need for multiple /48s assigned to a single end site Jordi Palet Martinez 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-043 Proposal to remove reference to IPv6 policy document as an “interim” policy document Jordi Palet Martinez 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-042 Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria Jordi Palet Martinez 2007 APNIC 23 2007
prop-040 Proposal for APNIC non-member annual service fee APNIC 2006 APNIC 22 2006
prop-039 A proposal to improve reachability of new IANA blocks Tomoya Yoshida 2006 APNIC 22 2006
prop-037 Deprecation of email updates for APNIC Registry and whois data Terry Manderson 2006 APNIC 22 2007
prop-036 Proposal to modify allocation criteria in the “IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy” Jordi Palet Martinez 2006 APNIC 22 2006
prop-034 IPv6 portable assignment for end user organisations Jordi Palet Martinez 2006 APNIC 22 2006
prop-029 Proposal for discrete networks and national peering Uchenna N Ibekwe, Vu, Baokhanh N (Beth), Jason Schiller 2005 APNIC 20 2005
prop-028 Abolishing IPv6 per address fee for NIRs NIR fee WG 2005 APNIC 19 2005
prop-024 Changing NIR fee structure Toshiyuki Hosaka 2004 APNIC 18 2004
prop-023 A proposal to prevent the routing of “dark” address space Gordon Bader 2004 APNIC 18 2004
prop-020 Application of the HD ratio to IPv4 APNIC 2004 APNIC 18 2006
prop-019 A proposal for whois database query Jeng-jr Li 2004 APNIC 21 2006
prop-013 LIRs to manage multiple discreet networks under a single APNIC membership Dawn Martin 2003 APNIC 17 2003
prop-009 Delegation of 2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa Synopsis Randy Bush 2003 APNIC 16 2003
prop-003 Policy for mirroring on IRR JPNIC 2004 APNIC 17 2005