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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