IPv4 resource guide

Quick start guide

Address policy

Updating your information

• How to apply for Internet number resources
• APNIC guidelines for IPv4 allocation and assignment requests
• Requesting a second opinion on a sub-allocation

• Address space management in the Asia Pacific region
• IPv4 allocations for African economies within the APNIC region
• Policies for historical resources in the APNIC Whois Database
• Translated documents
• More

• Updating information in the APNIC Whois Database
• Transferring membership and resources
• IP and ASN records transferred to APNIC

Recently implemented policies

Data and statistics

Other

• prop-017-v001 - Recovery of unused address space
• prop-018-v001 - Protecting historical records in the APNIC Whois Database
• prop-026-v001 - APNIC to publish address assignment statistics
• Policy development process

• APNIC IPv4 allocation sizes
• APNIC allocation and assignment reports [ftp]
• Allocation of IPv4 space to Regional Internet Registries

• APNIC membership information
• IP address space FAQs
• References
• Using Network Address Translation (NAT)

APNIC IPv4 ISP Request Form

Format

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Use this form to request IPv4 allocations.

APNIC account name holders only.

See also: ISP checklist

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APNIC Portable Assignment Request Form

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Use this form to request IPv4 or IPv6 assignments for Internet Exchange Points.

• Multihoming (IPv4 or IPv6)
• Internet Exchange Points (IPv4 or IPv6)
• Critical infrastructure (IPv4 or IPv6)

APNIC account name holders only.

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APNIC Second Opinion Request Form

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Use this form to request a second opinion for:

• Customer address assignments
• Customer address sub-allocations

APNIC account name holders only.

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Historical maintain form

Format

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Use this form to request updates to information about historical Internet resources registrations in the APNIC Whois Database. This includes IP address ranges and AS numbers that were transferred to the APNIC Whois Database as part of the ERX and AUNIC transfer projects. 

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Historical resource transfer form

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Use this form to transfer historical Internet resources to an APNIC account holder under the policies for the transfer of historical Internet resources described in section 6 of Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois Database.

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IP Address Request Form for Confederations

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APNIC confederations should use this form to request additional IP address space.

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Provider Independent IP Address Return Form

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Use this form to :

• Return historically allocated or assigned Provider Independent IP addresses
• Exchange three or more non-contiguous Provider Independent address blocks for one contiguous address block under the historical prefix exchange policy described in section 7 of Policies for historical Internet resources in the APNIC Whois Database.

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APNIC Reverse DNS Delegation Form

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Use this form to request in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa reverse DNS delegations.

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