ICANN: Global Policy Proposal for Autonomous System Numbers – Background Report

in Governance by David Goldstein — September 4, 2009 20:44 | no comments

(Proposal to change the date for full transition from 16-bit to 32-bit ASNs)

Introduction: Global Internet Number Resource Policies are defined by the ASO MOU – between ICANN and the NRO – as “Internet number resource policies that have the agreement of all RIRs according to their policy development processes and ICANN, and require specific actions or outcomes on the part of IANA or any other external ICANN-related body in order to be implemented”. Attachment A of this MOU describes the Development Process of Global Internet Number Resource Policies, including the adoption by every RIR of a global policy to be forwarded to the ICANN Board by the ASO, as well as its ratification by the ICANN Board. In this context, the ICANN Board adopted its own Procedures for the Review of Internet Number Resource Policies Forwarded by the ASO for Ratification.

Among other features, these Procedures state that the Board will decide, as and when appropriate, that ICANN staff should follow the development of a particular global policy, undertaking an “early awareness” tracking of proposals in the addressing community. To this end, staff should issue background reports periodically, forwarded to the Board, to all ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees and posted at the ICANN Web site.

At its meeting on 27 August 2009, the Board resolved to request tracking of the development of a Global Policy Proposal for “IANA Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries”, under discussion in the addressing community. The status overview presented below is compiled in response to this request and will be further updated as developments proceed, for information to ICANN entities and the wider community. This is the first issue of the tracking of this policy.

Status Overview

The current Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers, ASNs, removes the policy distinction between 16-bit and 32-bit ASNs on 1 January 2010. The new Global Policy Proposal moves that date to 1 January 2011.

The proposal was first introduced in RIPE on 27 May 2009 and was proposed in the ARIN region on 29 May 2009, subject to acceptance by the ARIN AC (and accepted since then). It was introduced on the LACNIC mailing list on 1 June 2009, on the APNIC mailing list on 13 July 2009 and on the AfriNIC mailing list on 28 August 2009. It has entered final call in LACNIC, RIPE and APNIC.

On 6 August 2009, the ASO AC recognized the proposal as fulfilling the formal requirements as a candidate for a Global Policy.

Once adopted by all the RIRs, i.e. ARIN, AfriNIC, LACNIC, RIPE and APNIC, the proposal will be handled by the NRO EC and the ASO AC according to their procedures before being submitted to the ICANN Board for ratification.

The table below outlines the steps taken within each RIR for the current proposal. Hyperlinks are included for easy access.

RIR	AfriNIC	APNIC	ARIN	LACNIC	RIPE
Proposal Introduced	28 Aug 2009 list message	13 July 2009 list message/prop-074	29 May 2009 list message/ prop 89	1 Jun 2009 list message LAC-2009-08	27 May 2009 prop 2009-7
Discussion list	Resource Policy Discussion List	SIG-Policy	Public Policy Mailing List	Politicas – Policy Mailing List	Address Policy WG
Public Forum		APNIC 28 24 -28 Aug 2009 (consensus)
Final Call for Comments		31 Aug – 26 Oct 2009		31 July – 29 Sept 2009	19 Aug – 16 Sept 2 009
Next Public Forum	AfriNIC 11 21-27 Nov 2009	APNIC 29 23 Feb – 5 Mar 2010	ARIN XXIV 21 – 23 Oct 2009	LACNIC uses an Expedite process, not requiring a meeting.	RIPE 59 5 – 9 Oct 2009
RIR Board Endorsement
Link to document		prop-074	prop 89	LAC-2009-08 (EN) LAC-2009-08 (ES) LAC-2009-08 (PT)	Policy proposal 2009-7
Link to Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process
Status	Introduced, in discussion	In final call	Accepted by Advisory Council, in discussion	Introduced for expedite process, in final call.	In final call

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04sep09-en.htm

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