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Dear All,

Please find the summary report of APNIC 18 Policy-SIG as below. For those who could not attend the onsite meeting (and for those could also), the proposals/presentations are available on APNIC website.

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/18/programme/sigs/policy.html

The formal minutes that will be posted to this mailing list soon will contain the list of action items.

Thanks and best regards, Toshi -- Toshiyuki Hosaka / JPNIC

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1. Overview

There were 3 sessions to cover 10 presentations including 4 proposals. 93 attendees in Session 1, 92 in Session 2, 70 in Session 3. Yong Wan Ju stepped down from co-chair, and Toshiyuki Hosaka was elected to the new co-chair.

Several rough consensus were reached as described in section 2. in this summary.

2. Proposals

(1) prop-023-v001: proposal to prevent the routing of "dark" address space

- Proposal summary: To withdraw address space from LIR who routes "dark" prefix.

- Consensus was not reached.

(2) prop-020-v001: Application of the HD ratio to IPv4

- Proposal summary: To apply HD ratio as IPv4 subsequent allocation criteria.

- There was no clear consensus.

- Consensus is to keep this proposal open. APNIC secretariat and NIRs to do a small survey on ISP address management problems.

(3) prop-021-v001: Expansion of the initial allocation space for existing IPv6 address space holders

- Proposal summary: To expand IPv6 address space for existing IPv6 address holders without satisfying the subsequent allocation requirements, with IPv6 deployment plan and/or with IPv4 infrastructure information.

- Consensus was reached.

(4) prop-005-v003: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) policy for allocation of IPv6 blocks to Regional Internet Registries

- Proposal summary: IPv6 Policy from IANA to RIRs

- Consensus reached for the revised proposal, with some flexibility of parameters. Flexibility is left for consensus of other regions

- Specific number of parameters will be discussed in ML

3. Informational Presentations

6 informational presentations were made. - IPv6 address space management - IPv6 policy status from ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE and APNIC communities - Unique Local IPv6 unicast addresses - Large space IPv4 trial usage program for future IPv6 deployment activities update vol.7 - Status report on APNIC policy implementations from APNIC 17 - IPv6 address assignment size for end-users

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