[ga] FW: Global Policy Proposal for Remaining IPv4 Address Space - Background Report - Updated 8 September 2008

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Global Policy Proposal for Remaining IPv4 Address Space - Background Report - 
Updated 8 September 2008

29 November 2007
(Updated 10 January 2008)
(Updated 5 March 2008)
(Updated 11 July 2008)
(Updated 8 September 2008)
(Updated 2 December 2008)

Introduction

Global Internet Number Resource Policies are defined by the ASO MOU - between 
ICANN and the NRO - as "Internet number resource policies that have the 
agreement of all RIRs according to their policy development processes and 
ICANN, and require specific actions or outcomes on the part of IANA or any 
other external ICANN-related body in order to be implemented". Attachment A of 
this MOU describes the Development Process of Global Internet Number Resource 
Policies, including the adoption by every RIR of a global policy to be 
forwarded to the ICANN Board by the ASO, as well as its ratification by the 
ICANN Board. In this context, the ICANN Board adopted its own Procedures for 
the Review of Internet Number Resource Policies Forwarded by the ASO for 
Ratification.



Among other features, these Procedures state that the Board will decide, as and 
when appropriate, that ICANN staff should follow the development of a 
particular global policy, undertaking an "early awareness" tracking of 
proposals in the addressing community. To this end, staff should issue 
background reports periodically, forwarded to the Board, to all ICANN 
Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees and posted at the ICANN Web 
site.

At its meeting on 20 November 2007, the Board resolved to request tracking of 
the development of a global policy proposal for allocation of remaining IPv4 
address space, under discussion in the Regional Internet Registries. The status 
overview presented below is compiled in response to this request and will be 
further updated as developments proceed, for information to ICANN entities and 
the wider community. This is the fifth issue of the tracking of this policy.

Status Overview

Originally, two slightly different global policy proposals were introduced for 
allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space:

A version (1) "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address 
Space", first presented at LACNIC X in May 2007
A version (2) "End Policy for IANA IPv4 allocations to RIRs", first presented 
at APNIC 24 in September 2007
Both featured the same approach, distribution of an equal number N of /8 IPv4 
address blocks to each RIR when the IANA free pool would reach the threshold 
value of 5xN, but differed in the proposed value of N, notably 2 or 1, 
respectively. The proposals were discussed in parallel in the RIRs and regarded 
essentially as one proposal, with a view to converging on a value for N. In 
February 2008, agreement was reached for a unified proposal (3). The current 
proposal is thus:

Version (3) "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address 
Space", first presented at APNIC 25 in February 2008
The proposal was introduced at the subsequent meetings of all other RIRs. It 
has now been adopted in ARIN, AfriNIC, LACNIC, RIPE and APNIC. The proposal 
will next be handled by the NRO EC and the ASO AC according to their procedures 
before being submitted to the ICANN Board for ratification. The table below 
outlines the steps taken within each RIR for the current proposal. Hyperlinks 
are included for easy access. An additional table shows the history of previous 
proposals.

It should be noted that other policy proposals have been put forward and are 
being discussed regarding IPv4 address space exhaustion, although only those 
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, and 
recognized by the ASO AC as global policy proposals in that meaning.

Status of current proposal (3) - for previous proposal history see separate 
table
(Please open the link directly to view the table)
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/proposal-ipv4-report-29nov07.htm


Glen de Saint Géry
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