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prop-146-v001: Aligning the Contrast

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Proposer: Anupam Agrawal (anupamagrawal.in@gmail.com)


1. Problem statement
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Section 3 of APNIC 127 - APNIC Internet Number Resource Policies have two broad sections. Section 3.1 talks about Goals of Resource Management and Section 3.2 talks about Policy Environment. Section 3.1 has currently eight sub sections which essentially are the eight goals of Resource Management. 

Section 3.1.4 is titled as No Guarantee of contiguous delegation. The description in the section is about making an effort for contiguous delegation. Additionally, as an exception, it has been noted that there is no guarantee that it can be adhered all the time. The title of the section appears to be in contrast to the goal described in the section.


Section 3.1.8 is titled as Conflict of Goals. The subheading appears contradictory to the intent of section 3.1 as Conflict of Goals appears to be one of the goals of Resource Management. Herein, the intention is to provide a way out by balancing the needs wherein the goals appears to be in conflict with each other.


2. Objective of policy change
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The objective is to align the contrasting headings and descriptions therein.

3. Situation in other regions
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Not relevant


4. Proposed policy solution
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Section 3.1.4 heading be changed from No Guarantee of contiguous delegation to Contiguous Delegation. 

Section 3.1.8 heading be changed from Conflict of Goals to Balancing the goals. Another policy option herein can be to completely deprecate the section. The reasons are mentioned below.

There are three paragraphs in the  section. The first paragraph – “The goals described above will often conflict with each other, or with the needs of individual IRs or end-users. All IRs evaluating requests for address space must make judgments, seeking to balance the needs of the applicant with the needs of the Internet community as a whole.” Is already covered in the opening paragraph of Section 3.0 wherein it states “responsible management involves balancing a set of sometimes competing goals.” As such the first paragraph can be completely removed. 

The second paragraph states that – “This document is intended to help IRs perform their role in consistent and equitable ways. IRs must maintain full documentation of and transparency within the decision-making process.” This can be moved to the opening statement of Section 3.0.

The third paragraph states that – “In IPv6 address policy, the goal of aggregation is considered to be the most important.”. This can be moved to section 3.1.3.


5. Advantages / Disadvantages
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Advantages:
The contrasting heading and explanations in the paragraphs if corrected will allow to remove the contradictions and present a seamless document.

Disadvantages:
None.


6. Impact on resource holders
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None.


7. References
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None.