<div id="doctitle">
<p class="title">
Global Policy Proposal for Remaining IPv4 Address Space –
Background Report
</p>
<p>
29 November 2007
</p>
</div>
<p> <strong> Introduction </strong></p>
<p> The development of Global Internet Number Resource Policies is the subject
of an <a href="http://aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou2004.html">MoU between ASO/NRO
and ICANN</a>. There are also specific <a href="http://www.icann.org/general/review-procedures-pgp.html">ICANN
Board Procedures</a> for handling global policy proposals in this context. </p>
<p>The Board procedures also state that the Board can request ICANN staff to
undertake an "early awareness" tracking of proposals for global policies under
development in the addressing community. At its meeting on 20 November 2007,
the Board resolved to request such tracking of the development of a global
policy proposal for allocation of remaining IPv4 address space, currently being
discussed in the Regional Internet Registries, or RIRs. The status overview
presented below is compiled in response to this request and will be timely
updated as developments proceed, for information to ICANN entities and the
wider community. </p>
<p><strong> Status Overview </strong></p>
<p> The table below indicates the current status within each RIR for the foreseen
Global Policy for remaining IPv4 address space. Hyperlinks are included for
easy access. </p>
<p>There are two concurrent versions of the Global Policy Proposal for Allocation
of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space in the Regional Internet Registry System: </p>
<ul><li> A version (1) "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4
Address Space", first presented at LACNIC X in May 2007 </li><li> A version (2) "End Policy for IANA IPv4 allocations to RIRs", first presented
at APNIC 24 in September 2007 </li></ul>
<p>Both versions feature the same approach and propose to distribute an equal
number N of /8 IPv4 address blocks to each RIR when the IANA pool is approaching
exhaustion, but differ in the proposed value of N, notably 2 or 1, respectively
(although originally with N proposed as 5 in the first version). Due to their
similarity, both versions are being discussed in parallel in the RIRs and are
regarded essentially as one proposal, with a view to converging on a value
for N. </p>
<p>The proposal will subsequently be handled by the NRO EC and the ASO AC according
to their procedures before being submitted to the ICANN Board. </p>
<p>It should be noted that other proposals have been put forward and are being
discussed regarding IPv4 address space exhaustion, although only the two mentioned
above have been scoped as global policy proposals in the sense of the ASO MoU,
i.e. focusing on address allocation from IANA to the RIRs. </p>
<p align="center">
</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" width="668"><tbody><tr>
<td valign="top" width="100"><p> RIR </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> AfriNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> APNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="82"><p> ARIN </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> LACNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="118"><p> RIPE </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Topic Introduced </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 9 July 2007 </p>
<p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2007/000774.html">afpol-asn200707</a> (1) </p>
<p> 29 Aug 2007 <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2007/000838.html">proposal</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 26 July 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2007/07/msg00006.html">prop-051-v001</a> (1) </p>
<p> 8 August 2007 <a href="http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2007/08/msg00016.html">prop-046-v002</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 28 Aug 2007 <a href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-August/008834.html">prop
2007-18</a> (1) </p>
<p> 28 Aug 2007 <a href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-August/008839.html">prop
2007-23</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 23 April 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://mail.lacnic.net/pipermail/politicas/2007-April/012082.html">LAC-2007-07</a> (1) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 30 July 2007 <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2007/msg00552.html">prop
2007-06</a> (1) </p>
<p> 15 Oct 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2007/msg00647.html">prop
2007-07</a> (2) </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Discussion list </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">Resource
Policy Discussion List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/index.shtml">SIG-Policy</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/index.html">Public
Policy Mailing List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/politicas">Politicas
– Policy Mailing List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/address-policy-wg">Address
Policy WG</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Public Forum </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/index.htm">AfriNIC
7 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/index.htm">23
- 28 Sept 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/presentations/27/AFRINIC7_DidierGlobalpolicy_for_the_allocation_of_the_remaining.pdf">Slides
(1)</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/presentations/27/AFRINIC7_Endpolicy_forIANA_ipv4allocation_to_rirs.pdf">Slides
(2)</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/index.html">APNIC
24 29 Aug – 7 Sept 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/program/sigs/policy/presentations/el-nakhal-prop-051.pdf">Slides</a> (1) </p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/program/sigs/policy/presentations/okutani-prop-046.pdf">Slides </a>(2) </p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XX/index.html">ARIN
XX </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XX/index.html">17-19
Oct 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XX/PDF/wednesday/Gagliano-2007-18.pdf">Slides</a> (1) </p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_23.html">Slides</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lacnic.net/sp/eventos/lacnicx/">LACNIC
X 22-25 May 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/lac200707.pdf">Slides</a> (1) </p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/index.html">RIPE
55 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/index.html">22
- 26 Oct 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/podcast-files/address-policy2.mp3">Podcast</a> (1+2) </p>
<p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Final Call for Comments </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://mail.lacnic.net/pipermail/politicas/2007-June/012232.html">13
June - 28 July 2007</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Next Public Forum </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/index.htm">AfriNIC
8 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/index.htm">24 May - 6 June
2008</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/25/">APNIC 25 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/25/">25 - 29 Feb 2008</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XXI/index.html">ARIN
XXI </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XXI/index.html">6 - 9 April 2008</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lacnic.net/sp/eventos/">LACNIC XI </a></p>
<p><a href="http://lacnic.net/sp/eventos/">to be announced</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-56/index.html">RIPE
56 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-56/index.html">5
- 9 May 2008</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> RIR Board Endorsement </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting Board ratification </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Link to document </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4gp200707.htm">afpol-asn200707</a> (1) </p>
<p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4ep200708.htm">afpol-v4ep200708</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-051-v001.html">Proposal-051-v001</a> (1) </p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-046-v002.html">Proposal-046-v002</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_18.html">Policy
proposal 2007-18</a> (1) </p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_23.html">2007-23</a> (2) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-07-en.pdf">English</a> (1) </p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-07-sp.pdf">Spanish</a> (1) </p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-07-pt.pdf">Portuguese</a> (1) </p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-06.html">Policy
proposal 2007-06</a> (1) </p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-07.html">2007-07</a> (2) </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Link to Policy Development Process </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/pdp.htm">Policy Development
Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/dev/index.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html">Internet
Resource Policy Evaluation </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html">Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lacnic.net/en/politicas/desarrollo.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Status </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> In discussion </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> In discussion </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> In discussion </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> In discussion </p></td></tr></tbody></table><br><div id="doctitle">
<p class="title"><b>
Global Policy Proposal for Autonomous System Numbers –
Background Report</b></p>
<p><b>
29 November 2007</b>
</p>
</div>
<p> <strong> Introduction </strong></p>
<p> The development of Global Internet Number Resource Policies is the subject
of an <a href="http://aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou2004.html">MoU between ASO/NRO
and ICANN</a>. There are also specific <a href="http://www.icann.org/general/review-procedures-pgp.html">ICANN
Board Procedures</a> for handling global policy proposals in this context. </p>
<p>The Board procedures also state that the Board can request ICANN staff to
undertake an "early awareness" tracking of proposals for global policies under
development in the addressing community. At its meeting on 20 November 2007,
the Board resolved to request such tracking of the development of a global
policy proposal for allocation of Autonomous System Numbers, or ASNs, that
is already well advanced towards adoption in the Regional Internet Registries,
or RIRs. The status overview presented below is compiled in response to this
request and will be timely updated as developments proceed, for information
to ICANN entities and the wider community. </p>
<p><strong> Status Overview </strong></p>
<p> The table below indicates the current status within each RIR for the proposed
Global Policy for ASNs. Hyperlinks are included for easy access. </p>
<p>The proposal was originally presented at the RIPE-54 meeting in March 2007,
inter alia to formalize the transition from 2-byte (16 bits) to 4-byte (32
bits) ASNs. The proposal has since been introduced in all RIRs, following their
respective policy development processes. </p>
<p>Once adopted by all RIRs, the proposal will subsequently be handled by the
NRO EC and the ASO AC according to their procedures before being submitted
to the ICANN Board for ratification. </p>
<p align="center">
</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" width="668"><tbody><tr>
<td valign="top" width="100"><p> RIR </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> AfriNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> APNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="82"><p> ARIN </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="94"><p> LACNIC </p></td>
<td valign="top" width="118"><p> RIPE </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Topic Introduced </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 20 Aug 2007 </p>
<p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2007/000837.html">afpol-asn200708</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 23 July 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2007/07/msg00002.html">prop-049-v001</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 28 Aug 2007 <a href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-August/008835.html">prop
2007-19</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 15 May 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-08-en.pdf">LAC-2007-08</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> 1 May 2007 <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-04.html">prop
2007-4</a></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody><col width="100">
<col width="94">
<col width="94">
<col width="82">
<col width="94">
<col width="118">
<tbody><tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Discussion list </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">Resource
Policy Discussion List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/index.shtml">SIG-Policy</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/index.html">Public
Policy Mailing List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/politicas">Politicas
– Policy Mailing List</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/address-policy-wg">Address
Policy WG</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Public Forum </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/index.htm">AfriNIC
7 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/index.htm">23
- 28 Sept 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-7/presentations/28/AFRINIC7_GlobalPolicyASN.pdf">Slides</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/index.html">APNIC
24 29 Aug – 7 Sept 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.apnic.net/meetings/24/program/sigs/policy/presentations/pawlik-prop-049.pdf">Slides</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XX/">ARIN XX </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XX/">17-19 Oct 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XX/PDF/wednesday/2007-19_Pawlik.pdf">Slides</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicx/">LACNIC
X 22-25 May 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/lac200708.ppt">Slides</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/">RIPE
54 </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/">7-11 May 2007</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/presentations/Global_Policy.pdf">Slides</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Final Call for Comments </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2007/000890.html">2
- 17 Oct 2007</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2007/09/msg00041.html">25
Sept – 23 Nov 2007</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-October/009610.html">23
Oct - 6 Nov 2007</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://mail.lacnic.net/pipermail/politicas/2007-June/012232.html">13
June - 28 July 2007</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2007/msg00541.html">17
July – 14 August 2007</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Next Public Forum (N/A - this stage is passed for
all) </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> RIR Board Endorsement </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption by the Board </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting endorsement by Executive Committee </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption by Board of Trustees </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting Board ratification </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/policy-announce/2007/msg00032.html">Final
adoption by consensus on 5 September 2007.</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Link to document </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-asn200708.htm">Proposal
afpol-asn200708</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-049-v001.html">Proposal-049-v001</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_19.html">Policy
proposal 2007-19</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-08-en.pdf">In
English</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-08-sp.pdf">In
Spanish</a></p>
<p> - <a href="http://lacnic.net/documentos/lacnicx/LAC-2007-08-pt.pdf">In
Portuguese</a></p>
<p> </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-416.html">Policy
document RIPE-416</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Link to Policy Development Process </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/pdp.htm">Policy Development
Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/dev/index.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html">Internet
Resource Policy Evaluation </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html">Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://lacnic.net/en/politicas/desarrollo.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html">Policy
Development Process</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p> Status </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption. </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption. </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption. </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Awaiting adoption. </p></td>
<td valign="top"><p> Adopted. </p></td></tr></tbody></table><br>