APNIC Member Meeting Seoul, Korea, 3 March 2000

APNIC Open Address policy Meeting

Discussion Paper:A proposal for registry evaluation principles

1. Introduction

We would like to propose that we should define several principles for address allocation for the following goals.

a. to avoid and resolve conflicts described in the APNIC policy document (5.2)

b. to share one standard assignment policy practice organizations in the AP region

Such definitions will result in;

a. Stable address administration in an environment where policy and technology see frequent changes

b. consistency among APNIC, NIR and LIR hostmasters (performance, decision, etc...)

c. efficiency in address allocations and assignments

The following principles are proposed;

a. Registries shall not interfere with business issues of the applications,

b. Registries shall not regard administrative ease on address assignments,

c. Registries shall gather minimum information necessary for evaluation of applications,

d. Requesters shall reply to any of the above information requests by all means but they are allowed to ask reasons of the requests by the registries,

e. Registries shall evaluate technologies for its procedures with a common standard before adoption.

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