[sig-db] Fw: APNIC to publish address assignment statistics

[Toshiyuki Hosaka <hosaka@nic.ad.jp>]

Dear DB-sig colleagues,

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Toshi

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From:    Toshiyuki Hosaka <hosaka@nic.ad.jp>
To:      sig-db@apnic.net
Date:    Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:54:30 +0900
Subject: APNIC to publish address assignment statistics
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Dear DB-sig colleagues,

Yesterday I submitted following proposal to sig-chair and APNIC
secretariat for the agenda of coming APNIC meeting in Kyoto.

I would appreciate your comments.

Thanks and best regards,
Toshi

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Toshiyuki Hosaka <hosaka@nic.ad.jp>
IP Department, Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC)
Tel: +81-(0)3-5297-2311  Fax: +81-(0)3-5297-2312

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Your name: Toshiyuki Hosaka

Your email address: hosaka@nic.ad.jp

Co-Authors: 

SIG: db

Title: APNIC to publish address assignment statistics

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"

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