Policy for IPv6 — Background Report
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
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"First version" presented at APNIC 18 (issued in Sept 2004)
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"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.
RIR | AfriNIC | APNIC | ARIN | LACNIC | RIPE |
Topic Introduced | 1 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 |
AfriNIC 3, 12-14 December 2005 - Agenda (Second version) - Slides (Second version) |
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 VII 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) RIPE 51 10-14 Oct 2005 - Agenda and slides (Second version) |
Final Call for Comments | 9 - 24 Feb 2006 |
17 Sept - 12 Nov 2004 (first version) 21 Sept - 16 Nov 2005 (second version) |
16 May - 1 June 2005 |
10 Aug - 24 Sept 2005 | 28 Feb — 27 March 2006 |
Next Public Forum (N/A - this stage is passed for all) | |||||
RIR Board Endorsement | Foreseen for first half of March 2006 |
Endorsed by Executive Committee 19 Nov 2004 (first version) 25 Nov 2005 (second version) |
Board of Trustees 16 June 2005 | LACNIC Board ratification on 17 October 2005. | WG chairs to judge consensus. No Board decision called for, according to RIPE PDP. |
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", final call closed, awaiting Board adoption. | "Second version" adopted. | "Second version" adopted. | "Second version" adopted. | "Second version" in final call for comments. |