Dear SIG members,
The proposal "prop-146: Aligning the Contrast" has been sent to
the Policy SIG for review.
It will be presented at the Open Policy Meeting (OPM) at APNIC 54 on
Thursday, 15 September 2022.
https://conference.apnic.net/54/program/schedule/#/day/8
We invite you to review and comment on the proposal on the mailing list
before the OPM.
The comment period on the mailing list before the OPM is an important
part of the Policy Development Process (PDP). We encourage you to
express your views on the proposal:
- Do you support or oppose this proposal?
- Does this proposal solve a problem you are experiencing? If so,
tell the community about your situation.
- Do you see any disadvantages in this proposal?
- Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?
- What changes could be made to this proposal to make it more effective?
Information about this proposal is appended below as well as available at:
http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-146
Regards,
Bertrand, Shaila, and Ching-Heng
APNIC Policy SIG Chairs
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prop-146-v001: Aligning the Contrast
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Proposer: Anupam Agrawal ([email protected])
1. Problem statement
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Section 3 of APNIC 127 - APNIC Internet Number Resource Policies have two broad
sections. Section 3.1 talks about Goals of Resource Management and Section 3.2
talks about Policy Environment. Section 3.1 has currently eight sub sections
which essentially are the eight goals of Resource Management.
Section 3.1.4 is titled as No Guarantee of contiguous delegation. The
description in the section is about making an effort for contiguous delegation.
Additionally, as an exception, it has been noted that there is no guarantee
that it can be adhered all the time. The title of the section appears to be in
contrast to the goal described in the section.
Section 3.1.8 is titled as Conflict of Goals. The subheading appears
contradictory to the intent of section 3.1 as Conflict of Goals appears to be
one of the goals of Resource Management. Herein, the intention is to provide a
way out by balancing the needs wherein the goals appears to be in conflict with
each other.
2. Objective of policy change
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The objective is to align the contrasting headings and descriptions therein.
3. Situation in other regions
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Not relevant
4. Proposed policy solution
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Section 3.1.4 heading be changed from No Guarantee of contiguous delegation to
Contiguous Delegation.
Section 3.1.8 heading be changed from Conflict of Goals to Balancing the goals.
Another policy option herein can be to completely deprecate the section. The
reasons are mentioned below.
There are three paragraphs in the section. The first paragraph – “The goals
described above will often conflict with each other, or with the needs of
individual IRs or end-users. All IRs evaluating requests for address space must
make judgments, seeking to balance the needs of the applicant with the needs of
the Internet community as a whole.” Is already covered in the opening paragraph
of Section 3.0 wherein it states “responsible management involves balancing a
set of sometimes competing goals.” As such the first paragraph can be
completely removed.
The second paragraph states that – “This document is intended to help IRs
perform their role in consistent and equitable ways. IRs must maintain full
documentation of and transparency within the decision-making process.” This can
be moved to the opening statement of Section 3.0.
The third paragraph states that – “In IPv6 address policy, the goal of
aggregation is considered to be the most important.”. This can be moved to
section 3.1.3.
5. Advantages / Disadvantages
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Advantages:
The contrasting heading and explanations in the paragraphs if corrected will
allow to remove the contradictions and present a seamless document.
Disadvantages:
None.
6. Impact on resource holders
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None.
7. References
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None.
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