Orbit

Hi

You are probably aware by now that the exhaustion of IPv4 address space is likely to occur in the next few years.

You might be interested to know that a proposal to deal with IPv4 exhaustion has been put forward for discussion in the APNIC region.

The proposal suggests five main principles:

(1) Global synchronization:

All five RIRs will proceed at the same time for measures on IPv4 address exhaustion.

(2) Some Blocks to be left:

Keep a few /8 stocks instead of distributing all.

(3) Keeping current practices until the last moment:

Maintain the current policy until the last allocation.

(4) Separate discussions on "recycle" issue:

Recovery of unused address space should be discussed separately

For more information on the proposal, see:

http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-046-v001.html

This proposal affects the whole Internet community. I encourage you to read the proposal and have your say on the APNIC Policy SIG mailing list, or at the upcoming APNIC 23 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, 26 February - 2 March 2007. If you can't attend the meeting in person, you can still have your say by participating remotely via live chat.

APNIC Policy SIG mailing list information:

http://www.apnic.net/community/lists

APNIC 23:

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/23/

Kind regards, Elly APNIC