prop-144: Reserve pool under Experimental Allocation Policy

In line with the spirit of Experimental RFCs being developed at the IETF, this proposal suggests providing reasonable assurance to the community on the continued availability of IPv4 addresses for experimental allocation requests by reserving a /21 IPv4 address block for the next five years from date of this proposal’s implementation. This reservation will expire five years after the date of the proposal’s implementation.

In addition, this proposal also suggests bringing the current policy text in line with the Membership Fee Schedule by replacing the words “IP resource application fee” with “assessment of a Member’s annual fee” in Section 5.7.5 of the policy document.

prop-144-v002:

APNIC understands this proposal is suggesting reserving a /21 IPv4 address space for the next five years from the date of the implementation of this proposal if reached consensus. This reservation will expire five years after the date of the implementation.

In addition, this proposal also suggests bringing the current policy text in line with the Membership Fee Schedule by replacing the words “IP resource application fee” with “assessment of a Member’s annual fee” under the Section 5.7.5 of the APNIC’s Internet Number Resource Policies document.

Clarification:

It is not clear from the proposal if the Experimental allocations policy for IPv4 requests would continue or deprecates after the expiration of the reserved space?

Recommendation:

May be this data is useful for the proposal discussion to decrease or increase the IPv4 reserved address space.

In the last five years (2017-2021) APNIC delegated six /24s to Experimental allocation requests.

Observations:

Three of the five experimental IPv4 delegations included memorable ranges so they are easy to remember for DNS experiments. If this proposal is implemented, APNIC won’t be able to process any special requests for delegation of a memorable IPv4 address.

Implementation:

This proposal would not require any changes to the systems.

If this proposal reaches consensus, implementation can be completed within 3 months.

End of editorial comment period. Policy published as apnic-127-v011.