______________________________________________________________ Proposal: APNIC to publish address assignment statistics ______________________________________________________________ Author: Toshiyuki Hosaka Version: 1.0 Date: 19 January 2005 Introduction ------------ This is a proposal requesting the APNIC secretariat to collect the number of assignments registered in APNIC whois database on a monthly basis, sorted by country and by address prefix(size). This will help to keep track of the total IP address consumption in the region and should be made publicly available on the APNIC website or on the ftp server. Summary ------- + In order to study the IP address consumption, it is necessary to keep track of not only the allocation data(date of allocation, allocated country, allocation size), but also how much assignments are actually made from those allocations. + However no data regarding assignments are currently made pubic by APNIC. + It is not no longer able to obtain assignment data by querying the APNIC whois database since "Privacy of customer assignment records" had been implemented by the APNIC secretariat last year. + APNIC Whois query result provides information such as the name of the assigned organization, contact, etc, but these information are not necessary for studying the trend of the address consumptions Details ------- - allocation data is already made publicly available by APNIC, therefore, it is out of scope of this proposal - the information to be collected is defined as follows + registry(APNIC) + country code + type of IP address(IPv4/IPv6) + prefix size of the assignment(/24, /23 ..., etc) + data sorted by prefix size of the assignment - All assignment data which fall into either one of the following categories should be collected: + data registered as "Assigned non-portable" + data registered as "Assigned portable" (Note:sub-allocation data, i.e, "allocated non-portable" will not be the target of the data collection in order to avoid double counts of assignments registered under such allocations) - Add up the total of the above mentioned data, sorted by country and by prefix size. - the following is a proposed data format, but this can be changed. registry|cc|type|prefix|value registry ... APNIC cc ... country code(2 letters) registered in the assignment type ... IPv4 or IPv6 prefix ... address prefix value ... the number of assignments registered under the specified prefix (EX) APNIC|JP|ipv4|24|2678 APNIC|JP|ipv4|25|3789 APNIC|JP|ipv6|48|800 APNIC|JP|ipv6|64|2300 .. APNIC|KR|ipv4|23|3450 .. Pros/Cons --------- - It enables speculation of the volumes of address stocks within LIRs and the scale of deployment among end users by comparing the volume of allocations and assignments - Especially in terms of IPv6 which is still under diffusion period, it can be used as a basis for future policy development by seeing how much assignments are actually being made - Those who needs access to such data do not need to make whois queries and does not conflict with "Privacy of customer assignment records" Effect on APNIC --------------- APNIC members can access to the assignment data without conflict with "Privacy of customer assignment records"