This document provides a summary of a presentation given by Adam Gosling on policy development at APNIC. It begins with an introduction of APNIC as the regional internet registry for the Asia Pacific region and describes its role and multistakeholder policy development process. It then discusses recent policy proposals that reached consensus, including on distributing returned IPv4 addresses and transferring AS numbers. The presentation concludes with an overview of APNIC's involvement in the broader internet governance landscape and collaborations with organizations like the NRO and engagement with governments.

1. Policy Development Process
& Internet Eco-System
Adam Gosling
Senior Policy Specialist, APNIC
APNIC Regional Meeting Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
29 November 2013
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2. Agenda
• Introduce APNIC
• APNIC Policy
• Policy Report
• Internet Ecosystem
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The NRO
APNIC External Relations
LEA engagement
Recent developments
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3. Introducing APNIC
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4. What is APNIC?
• Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the
Asia Pacific region
– Comprises 56 economies
• Not-for-profit, membership-based
organization
• Governed by the Executive Council
(EC), who are elected by the Members
• Secretariat located in Brisbane,
Australia
– Currently employs around 70 staff
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5. The
Regional
Internet
Registry
for the
Asia Pacific
region
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6. APNIC’s Vision:
A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that
serves the entire Asia Pacific community.
How we achieve this:
• Serving Members
• Supporting the Asia Pacific Region
• Collaborating with the Internet Community
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7. APNIC’s Mission
• Function as the RIR for the Asia Pacific, in the service of the
community of Members and others
• Provide Internet registry services to the highest possible
standards of trust, neutrality, and accuracy
• Provide information, training, and supporting services to
assist the community in building and managing the Internet
• Support critical Internet infrastructure to assist in creating and
maintaining a robust Internet environment
• Provide leadership and advocacy in support of its vision and
the community
• Facilitate regional Internet development as needed throughout
the APNIC community
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8. APNIC Resource Policy
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9. Internet Resource Policies
• Policies evolve to always meet the operational
needs of ISPs and other network operators
• There is a system in place called the Policy
Development Process (PDP)
– Anyone can propose a policy
– Anyone can participate in decisions
– All decisions & policies documented & freely available to
anyone
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10. Multistakeholder policy development
• Open
– Anyone can propose, discuss, and help decide policy
• Transparent
– APNIC publicly documents all policy discussions and decisions
• Bottom up
– The PDP itself and the resource policies are determined by the
community they serve
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11. Policy SIG Charter
• Develop policies and procedures which relate to the
management and use of Internet address resources by APNIC,
NIRs and ISPs within the Asia Pacific region
• APNIC Policy
– www.apnic.net/policy
• APNIC Policy Development Process
– www.apnic.net/policy/policy-development
• APNIC Policy SIG
– www.apnic.net/policy-sig
• SIG Guidelines
– www.apnic.net/community/sigs/sig-guidelines
• Mailing list subscription archive
– mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy
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12. Steps to Implementation
1. Proposal submission
2. Mailing list discussion before Open Policy Meeting
3. Must reach consensus at the OPM
4. Must reach consensus at the APNIC Member Meeting
5. Comment Period to confirm consensus
6. Executive Council endorsement
7. Editorial Comment period
8. Implementation
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13. Policy
development
is a cycle
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14. Consensus Decision Making
• Consensus = “general agreement” taking into consideration
comments on the mailing list and at the meeting.
• Show of hands is a way of “broadly gauging opinion”
• Comments via Remote Participation are welcome
• Example definitions from Tao of IETF:
– a very large majority of those who care must agree
– strongly held objections must be debated until most people are
satisfied that these objections are wrong
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15. Remember
• Minor Objections
– some problems may occur for some members of the group
• Major Objections
– major problems will occur for parts of the community
• Participants should “work together” to resolve objections
• The Secretariat’s role in the PDP is to facilitate the PDP and
implement the policy
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16. APNIC 36 report
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17. Policy SIG Meeting outcomes
• SIG Chair Election
– Andy Linton re-elected as Chair for 2 years
• Masato Yamanishi continues until August 2014
• Leasing discussion
– Chairs to send summary of discussion to list
• SIG Guidelines
– A discussion about SIG Hibernation – see NIR SIG report
• Three Proposals
– Prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address blocks
– Prop-107: AS number transfer policy proposal
– Prop-108: Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy Development Process
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18. Policy discussions at APNIC 36
• The following proposals reached consensus and will
progress to the 8-week comment period:
prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address blocks
prop-107: AS number transfer policy proposal
• The following proposal reached consensus after some
modification and will progress to the 8-week comment
period:
prop-108: Suggested changes to the APNIC Policy
Development Process
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19. prop-105: Distribution of returned
IPv4 address blocks
Aims:
• Make IANA returns available for distribution using a
different policy from “final /8” policy
Proposal:
• Each Member able to justify need for an additional /22
Status:
• Endorsed for implementation by the APNIC EC
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20. prop-107: AS number transfer policy
proposal
Aims:
• This policy would permit the intra- and inter-regional
transfer of ASNs
Proposal:
• Allow transfer of ASNs based on IPv4 transfer policy
Status:
• Endorsed for implementation by the APNIC EC
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21. prop-108: Suggested changes to the
APNIC Policy Development Process
Aims:
• A proposal to optimize and/or disambiguate procedures
carried out under the current APNIC PDP
Proposal:
• The comment period for proposals reaching consensus at
the OPM and AMM will not be shorter than four weeks but
no longer than eight weeks at the sole discretion of the SIG
Chair.
Status:
• Endorsed for implementation by the APNIC EC
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22. Other policy changes in 2013
• Implemented:
– prop-104: Clarifying demonstrated needs requirement in IPv4 transfer
policy (Feb 2013)
– prop-101: Removing multihoming requirement for IPv6 portable
assignments (Feb 2013)
• Did not reach consensus at APNIC 35:
– prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address (modification of
prop-088)
• Developed further by the author. Reached consensus at APNIC 36
– prop-106: Restricting excessive IPv4 address transfers under the
final /8 block
• Abandoned
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23. Transferring IP Addresses
• Transfers, Mergers, Acquisitions are possible
• There are transfer policies exists to transfer IP addresses
– In the APNIC region
– Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfers
• Conditions on the source and recipient RIR will apply
• APNIC will review the status of IP allocations
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24. Internet Ecosystem
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26. The Number
Resource
Organization
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28. The Number Resource Organization
• Celebrating 10 years
• The Vision: To be the flagship and global leader for
collaborative Internet number resource management as a
central element of an open, stable, and secure Internet.
• The Mission: To actively contribute to an open, stable, and
secure Internet, through:
– Providing and promoting a coordinated Internet number registry
system
– Being an authoritative voice on the multistakeholder model and
bottom-up policy process in Internet governance
– Coordinating and supporting the activities of the RIRs
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29. Number Resource Organization
• Paul Wilson is serving as the Chair of the NRO EC in 2013
• Joint activities with the other four RIRs
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Resource Certification
Global statistics and report publication
Internet governance
Global policy development (ICANN Address Supporting Organization)
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30. External
Relations
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31. External Relations
• Network Operator Groups (NOG)
– MyNOG, SGNOG, PACNOG, SANOG, etc.
• NIR Open Policy Meetings (OPM)
– IRINN, TWNIC, VNNIC
• Outreach on security
– 4th APT Cybersecurity Forum
– Engagement with Law Enforcement Agencies
• Collaboration with Internet (I*) organizations
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ICANN
ISOC
NRO
IETF
IAB
W3C
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32. External Relations
Regional engagements:
• APT
– APNIC has become an affiliate member
– Preparatory processes for upcoming ITU conferences
• APEC – TEL
– Development Steering Group (DSG)
– IPv6 promotion and security
• Regional and National IGF initiatives
– NetHui
– APrIGF
– AuIGF
• Pacific
– PITA
– PICISOC
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33. External Relations
• ITU World Telecommunications Development Conference – 14
• ITU Plenipotentiary – 14
• OECD - Study on IPv6
– Geoff Huston on public policy implications of CGNs and NATs
• Montevideo Statement
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Warned against Internet fragmentation at a national level
Expressed concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence
Need for ongoing effort to address Internet Governance challenges
Accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions
Transition to IPv6 is a top priority globally
• http://www.nro.net/news/montevideo-statement-on-the-future-of-internet-cooperation
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34. LEA Engagement
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35. Assisting LEAs
• APNIC has a fundamental role to play in the stability and security
of the Internet, ensuring that the services we provide such as the
APNIC Whois Database and Reverse DNS zone delegations are
accurate, reliable, and up-to-date.
• LEAs are an important segment of the APNIC community. We
collaborate, cooperate, and work together with them to ensure
the Internet remains an open, secure, and stable platform
• Data from the Whois may be a source of information for the LEAs
in our community.
• APNIC encourages the LEAs to participate in the APNIC Policy
Development Process, and have your voices heard on issues
that are important to you!
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36. Training and capacity building
APNIC provides
training and capacity
building to law
enforcement
agencies in the
APNIC service
region, in
collaboration with
country-code top
level domain name
managers in region
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37. Recent
Developments
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38. Internet governance landscape
• During the last thirty years, we have seen the Internet and
its coordination structures develop in an open, bottom-up,
and multistakeholder environment
• It is just in the last few years that the Internet has received
increased attention from governments
– Internet seen as a critical infrastructure
– Growing concerns about the consequences of cybercrime
• Some recognize the current successes, others support an
intergovernmental model
– Ongoing discussions
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39. Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
Internet Governance
• 23 - 24 April Sao Paulo, Brazil
– The meeting will aim to produce universal internet principles and an
institutional framework for multistakeholder Internet governance. The
framework will include a roadmap to evolve and globalize current
institutions, and new mechanisms to address the emerging Internet
governance topics.
• Multistakeholder representation
– Private Enterprise, Technical Community, Civil Society, Academia,
and Governments
• The meeting will allow face-to-face and remote participation
of the global community
– Mechanism and deadline for inputs yet to be be established
– Likely to be 1 March, 2014.

40. Four Meeting Committees
• Led by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and
Internet governance community
– Prof. Virgílio Fernandes Almeida, Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet
Steering Committee and Secretary for Informatics Policies
• The four meeting committees are:
– High-Level Multistakeholder Committee: Responsible for conducting the
political articulation and fostering the involvement of the international
community.
– Executive Multistakeholder Committee: Responsible for organizing the
event, including the agenda discussion and execution, and for the
treatment of the proposals from participants and different stakeholders;
– Logistics and Organizational Committee: Responsible for overseeing
every logistic aspect of the meeting;
– Governmental Advisory Committee: Will stay open to all governments
which want to contribute to the meeting.
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41. 1net.org and the i-coordination list
• Created the I* organizations to prepare for the Brazil
meeting
– ISOC Announcement
• Headed by the head of AFRINIC
– Adiel A. Akplogan, CEO at AfriNIC
– Website:
– 1net.org
• A mailing list to get input from the community
– https://nro.net/mailman/listinfo/i-coordination
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42. Panel on the Future of Global Internet
Cooperation
• Chair: Estonian President Toomas Ilves
• First meeting 12 – 13 December in London, England
• Report in early 2014 for public comment
– principles for global Internet cooperation, proposed frameworks for
such cooperation and a roadmap for future Internet governance
challenges
• ICANN will organize the secretariat and provide logistical
support
– www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-17nov13en.htm
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43. External Relations
• APNIC is actively involved in the evolution of the
multistakeholder model
– Importance of the IGF after WSIS
– Collaboration with other I* organizations: ICANN (ASO), NRO, ISOC
– Support to the Internet community: NOGs and OPMs
• APNIC has engaged actively with governments and
intergovernmental organizations:
– Globally: ITU and OECD
– Regionally: APT, APEC TEL
– Also has started collaboration with LEAs
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44. Questions are welcome
adam@apnic.net
@boutpolicy
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Issue Date: [29 November 2013]
Rev: [01]
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