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prop-129-v001: Abolish Waiting list for unmet IPv4 requests

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Proposers: Aftab Siddiqui
           aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com


1. Problem Statement
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The current APNIC IPv4 Policy allows each APNIC account holder to receive 
up to a /22 from the IPv4 Recovered Pool after they have received a /22 from 
the final /8 pool (103/8).  However, the Recovered Pool may not always have 
enough resources for delegation, therefore a waiting list was created. The 
position of a Member on the waiting list is strictly determined by the date 
and time that the Member’s completed request received by APNIC. At the time 
of writing, there are 658 members in the waiting list.  In 2018, APNIC 
received 10 x /24 and 1 x /23 (equal to 3 x /22) from IANA recovered pool. 
In the same year, more than 400 members were added to the waiting list 
where the majority were requesting for /22. IANA recovered address delegations 
are shrinking to a level where it is impossible to provide IPv4 resources to 
current 658 members in the waiting list. 


2. Objective of policy change
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The objective is to remove the waiting list as the IANA or APNIC recovered address 
space is not enough. All the members in the waiting list already have a minimum of 
/22 address space from last /8 (103/8) address block. Whatever is recovered by IANA 
or by APNIC should be left aside to new members ONLY.

3. Situation in other regions
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Please correct if otherwise
ARIN - returned and/or recovered address space is added to the ARIN's free pool
RIPE NCC - returned and/or recovered address space is added to the RIPE NCC’s free pool
LACNIC - returned and/or recovered address space is added to reserve block
AFRINIC - No Clear

4. Proposed policy solution
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Abolish the current waiting list and once the APNIC receives IPv4 recovered address 
space from IANA or recovered by themselves (through closures or returns etc) then 
it should be treated under the same policy as last /8 (103/8). 

A waiting list will be created once APNIC runs out of resources in last /8 and same 
last /8 allocation policy will be applied to the waiting list.

5. Advantages / Disadvantages
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Advantages:
Removing an unnecessary waiting list and able to utilize the recovered address pool 
as part of available IPv4 resources or last /8.

It will also encourage the waiting list members to implement IPv6. 

Disadvantages:
No disadvantages.


6. Impact on resource holders
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No impact on existing resource holders.


7. References
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