APNIC policy proposals

How policies are developed

Policy development
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How to submit your own policy proposal

  1. Submit your proposal via the online policy proposal form.
  2. The APNIC Secretariat assigns your proposal a tracking number.
  3. The Chair of the appropriate APNIC SIG sends your proposal to the SIG's mailing list.

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Status of recent proposals

In eight-week final call for comments
Reached consensus at Policy SIG and AMM 		[prop-055] Global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space
[prop-061] Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) for documentation purposes
[prop-062] Use of final /8
[prop-064] Change to assignment policy for AS numbers
[prop-065] Format for delegation and recording of 4-byte AS numbers
[prop-066] Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources
Returned to the mailing list for further discussion
Did not reach consensus at Policy SIG 		[prop-063] Reducing timeframe of IPv4 allocations from twelve to six months
[prop-050] IPv4 address transfers
To be revised by author
Did not reach consensus at Policy SIG 		[prop-060] Change in the criteria for the recognition of NIRs in the APNIC region
Endorsed by all RIRs
Ratified by ICANN Board of Directors 		[prop-049] IANA policy for allocation of ASN blocks to RIRs
Implemented 4 August 2008 [prop-053] Changing minimum IPv4 allocation size to /22
[prop-054] NIR operational policy document revision
[prop-057] Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria
Withdrawn [prop-059] Using the Resource Public Key Infrastructure to construct validated IRR data

Past proposals