Global Policy for IPv6 - Background Report

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, adopted by the Board on 15 July 2005 at the ICANN meeting in Luxemburg, for handling global policy proposals in this context.

The abovementioned 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 16 August 2005, the Board resolved to request such tracking of the development of a global policy proposal for allocation of IPv6 address space, already well advanced 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 IPv6. Hyperlinks are included for easy access.

There are two version of the proposal of Allocation of IPv6 Address Space by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy to Regional Internet Registries

• "First version" presented at APNIC 18 (issued in Sept 2004)
• "Second version" elaborated after further discussion (issued in February 2005).

The current situation, as of mid October 2005, is that all RIRs are treating the "second version", which is in different phases of the RIRs' respective adoption processes, as indicated in the table below.

RIR	AfriNIC	APNIC	ARIN	LACNIC	RIPE
Topic Introduced	2 Aug 2005	1 Sept 2004 (orig. 22 July 2003)	20 Sept 2004	2 Sept 2004	4 August 2004
Discussion list	Policy WG Mailing List (subscription)	SIG - Policy	Public Policy Mailing List	Politicas - LACNIC Policy Mailing List	Address Policy WG
Public Forum		APNIC 18, 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2004 - Slides (First version) APNIC 20, 6 - 9 Sept. 2005 - Slides (Second version)	ARIN XIV, 19-22 Oct 2004 - Slides (First version) ARIN XV, 17-21 April 2005 - Slides (Second version)	LACNIC VI, 26-28 Oct 2004 - Slides (First version) LACNIC VIII, 27-30 June 2005 - Slides (Second version)	RIPE 49, 20-24 Sept 2004 - Slides (First version) RIPE 50, 1-6 May 2005 - Slides (Second version)
Final Call for Comments		17 Sept - 12 Nov 2004 (first version) 21 Sept - 16 Nov 2005 (second version)	16 May - 1 June 2005	10 Aug - 24 Sept 2005	Open for discussion 5 Oct - 1 Nov 2005
Next Public Forum	AfriNIC 3, 12 -14 Dec 2005 Cairo Egypt		- None unless text changes
RIR Board Endorsement		Endorsed by Executive Committee 19 Nov 2004 (first version)	Board of Trustees 16 June 2005	LACNIC Board ratification on 17 October 2005	Not applicable according to RIPE PDP procedure
Link to document	AfriNIC proposed policy	Proposal-005-v005	Policy proposal 2004-8	- In English - In Spanish - In Portuguese	RIPE Draft Document (First Version) Policy proposal 2005-09 (Second version)
Link to Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development	Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process
Status	"Second version" to be presented at AfriNIC 3 (December 2005)	"First version" adopted. "Second version" got consensus at APNIC 20, in final call for comments	"Second version" adopted.	"Second version", final call for comments ended.	"Second version" presented at RIPE 51. Open for discussion 5 Oct - 1 Nov 2005