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Updated 7 March 2006

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 Luxembourg, for handling global policy proposals in this context.

The above-mentioned 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 were originally 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, since mid October 2005, is that all RIRs are treating the "second version", which has advanced in the RIRs' respective adoption processes, as indicated in the table below.