Global Policy Proposal for Autonomous System Numbers — Background Report

Updated 3 March 2008
10 January 2008

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 for handling global policy proposals in this context.

The 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 20 November 2007, the Board resolved to request such tracking of the development of a global policy proposal for allocation of Autonomous System Numbers, or ASNs, that is already well advanced towards adoption 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 proposed Global Policy for ASNs. Hyperlinks are included for easy access.

The proposal was originally presented at the RIPE-54 meeting in March 2007. It formalizes the current procedure and gives a policy basis for the transition from 2-byte (16 bits) to 4-byte (32 bits) ASNs. The proposal has been introduced in all RIRs, following their respective policy development processes, and has now been adopted by all RIRs. The proposal will next be handled by the NRO EC and the ASO AC according to their procedures before being submitted to the ICANN Board for ratification.

The proposal has been formally recognized by the ASO AC as a global policy proposal in the sense of the ASO MoU, i.e. focusing on address allocation from IANA to the RIRs.

RIR	AfriNIC	APNIC	ARIN	LACNIC	RIPE
Proposal Introduced	20 Aug 2007 afpol-asn200708	23 July 2007 prop-049-v001	28 Aug 2007 prop 2007-19	15 May 2007 LAC-2007-08	1 May 2007 prop 2007-4
Discussion list	Resource Policy Discussion List	SIG-Policy	Public Policy Mailing List	Politicas – Policy Mailing List	Address Policy WG
Public Forum	AfriNIC 7 23 - 28 Sept 2007 - Slides	APNIC 24 29 Aug – 7 Sept 2007 - Slides	ARIN XX 17-19 Oct 2007 - Slides	LACNIC X 22-25 May 2007 - Slides	RIPE 54 7-11 May 2007 - Slides
Final Call for Comments	2 - 17 Oct 2007	25 Sept – 23 Nov 2007	23 Oct - 6 Nov 2007	13 June - 28 July 2007	17 July – 14 August 2007
Next Public Forum (N/A - this stage is passed for all)
RIR Board Endorsement	Adopted by the AfriNIC Board on 30 January 2008	Endorsed by APNIC Executive Council on 13 Dec 2007	Adopted by ARIN Board of Trustees on 11 Dec 2007	Ratified by LACNIC Board on 5 Dec 2007	Final adoption by consensus on 5 September 2007.
Link to document	Proposal afpol-asn200708	Proposal-049-v001	Policy proposal 2007-19	- In English - In Spanish - In Portuguese	Policy document RIPE-416
Link to Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process	Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process	Policy Development Process	Policy Development Process
Status	Adopted.	Adopted.	Adopted.	Adopted.	Adopted.