[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Policy - Initial Allocation Criteria in other regions

Dear Colleagues,

As requested by the working group, please find below a summary 
of the variations in the Initial Allocation Criteria for IPv6 
Policy from each of the other regions.

For all regions, the following criteria apply:

a) Requester must be an LIR
b) Requester must not be an end site

The other criteria vary. They are summarised below by region:

ARIN region:

Requesters must:

c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organisations to which
it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through
its single aggregated address allocation;

d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other
organisations within two years.

There is a policy proposal in last call review currently which 
states: 

 - to change the timeframe above in 'd)' from "two years" to 
   "five years"

and

 - to have 'd)' prepended "be an existing, known ISP in the
   ARIN region or..."

(http://www.arin.net/policy/2003_4.html)


APNIC region:

Requesters must:

c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organisations to which 
it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through 
its single aggregated address allocation;

d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other
organisations within two years.

In addition, APNIC will make allocations to closed networks if 
they meet all other criteria.


LACNIC region:

Requesters must:

c) document a detailed plan for the services and IPv6 connectivity
to be offered to other organisations (clients);

d) announce a single block in the Internet inter-domain routing
system, aggregating the total IPv6 address allocation received,
within a period not longer than 12 months;

e) offer IPv6 services to clients physically located within the
region covered by LACNIC within a period not longer than 24 months.


Regarding your comments on the RIR Comparative Policy Overview
document, 

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/rir-comp-matrix-rev.html

I realise that it is currently out of date. This document is 
currently being reviewed. I expect the document to be published 
in July. It will include the above points along with any other 
policy related matters.


Kind regards,
-- 
Filiz Yilmaz
RIPE NCC