Hi Anupam, We identified around 2.3 million unadvertised historical IPv4 addresses in July 2020 and have been attempting to contact the custodians to find out if they still need these resources.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/07/06/reclaiming-unused-ipv4-address-space/ By end of last year, we made the following progress: Not contactable/no response: 1.1 mil Retained/in the process of being retained: 750k Returned to APNIC: 480k I should point out that as per APNIC EC resolution 2021-09, we are in the process of attempting to contact all historical resource custodians in the Asia Pacific region who don't have an account with APNIC, which has been a focus project for our team this year. If these historical resource custodians fail to set up an account before 1 January, 2023, their historical resource registration will no longer be published in the APNIC Whois Database and those resources will be placed into reserved status. Reserved status means the resource has not been allocated or assigned to any entity, and is not available for allocation or assignment. This will apply to all historical resources, regardless if they are advertised or not. For more information, please see https://2022.apricot.net/assets/files/APNT374/managing-your-historical-ipv4-addresses.pdf Thanks Vivek From: Anupam Agrawal <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 3:17 am To: Owen DeLong <[email protected]> Cc: sig-policy <[email protected]> Subject: [sig-policy] Re: Sec 4.2.1 - Recovery of Unused Historical Resources Absolutely. I think the intent here is all other cases which ideally have no reason for not being unannounced. Regards Anupam. On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, 22:15 Owen DeLong, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I will point out that unannounced != unused. There are plenty of legitimate cases for needing globally unique addresses that are not necessarily announced in the global routing table. Exchange points are one example. Private networks that interact with multiple internet-connected networks is another. Owen On Aug 2, 2022, at 03:47, Anupam Agrawal <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: All- Section 4.2.1 of APNIC Internet Number Resource Policies (APNIC -127) states that a significant amount of historical resources registered in the APNIC Whois database are not announced to the global routing table. What's the number we are talking about? Further, it has been mandated in the same section that APNIC needs to contact networks responsible for resources not globally used for a reasonable period of time. What's the period being considered currently? Will it make sense to have a time period included for proactive action? Regards ________________________________________________________ Anupam Agrawal | India Internet Foundation - Chair | 91 990 399 2838 _______________________________________________ sig-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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