Introduction
The development of Global Internet Number Resource Policies is the subject of an MoU between ASO/NRO and ICANN. There are also specific ICANN Board Procedures for handling global policy proposals in this context.
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.
Status Overview
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.
There are two concurrent versions of the Global Policy Proposal for Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space in the Regional Internet Registry System:
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 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.
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.
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.
This ICANN announcement originally appeared on the ICANN website at icann.org/announcements/proposal-ipv4-report-29nov07.htm
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