policy documentation adam gosling apnic 38 policy sig meeting 18 september 2014
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Policy Documentation
Adam Gosling
APNIC 38 Policy SIG Meeting
18 September 2014
Implementations since APNIC 37
• prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address (Modification of prop-088)
• prop-107: AS number transfer policy proposal
• prop-109: Allocate 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 to APNIC Labs as Research Prefixes
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Single Policy Document
• Combine 7 Policies into one document– Policy environment for Internet number resource distribution in the
Asia Pacific– Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific
region– IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy– Experimental allocations policy– Policies for Autonomous System number management in the Asia
Pacific region– APNIC transfer, merger, acquisition, and takeover policy– Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois
Database
Why?
• Significantly reduced maintenance overhead
• Increased accessibility and ease-of-use
• Removal of duplicate content
• Easier analysis
• Easier to provide a change log
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Editorial Review
• Document Editorial Policy calls for 1 month comment period
• Is this sufficient? Or would you prefer more time?
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Policy Store
• Store of active Official Documents– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/docs/
Metadata listing of documents– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/docs/README.txt
• Archival Versioning of all Official Documents– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/archive/
Metadata listing of archival documents– ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/archive/readme.txt
Thank you
Questions?
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