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prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations

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Source facts

Policy ID
prop-168
RIR
APNIC
Official status
For discussion at APNIC 62 OPM
Normalized status
Under discussion
Introduced
Dec 18, 2025
Last source update
Oct 14, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

3Total participants
3Discussion contributors
1Formal actors
3Discussion messages
3Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
2People covering 50%
3People covering 80%

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Official version

    v001

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  2. Official version

    v002

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  3. Official version

    v003

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  4. Official version

    v004

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  5. Introduced

    Introduced

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  6. Public discussion

    [sig-policy] Re: Copyright and Acceptable Use Terms for APNIC Directory Services

    2 Discussion messages · 2 Entities

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Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. teddyap · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 17, 2026
    Last activityAug 17, 2026
    First explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Latest explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies0
  2. Bikram Shrestha · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 12, 2026
    Last activityAug 12, 2026
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies5
  3. Christopher Hawker
    Discussion messages1
    First activityAug 11, 2026
    Last activityAug 11, 2026
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies4
    Freshness: Stale

    Identity verified: Sep 11, 2026

    · Historical
    Current status Implemented Author Christopher Hawker Relevant forum Policy SIG Previous versions prop-156-v001 Secretariat impact assessment Impact assessment for v001.
    www.apnic.net

    Verified public profiles

    Discussion messages
    1
    First activity
    Aug 11, 2026
    Last activity
    Aug 11, 2026
    First explicit stance
    Unknown
    Latest explicit stance
    Unknown
    Stance changes
    0
    Viewpoint consistency
    Insufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies
    4

    First explicit stance: Unknown → Latest explicit stance: Unknown · Stance changes: 0

    Viewpoint consistency: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency

    The retained evidence is one email addressing three proposals, not three independent occasions. Hawker distinguishes their scope and argues for more development time for prop-165. His conditional resource-pool argument is coherent within that email, but this record cannot establish consistency or a change of position over time.

    prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations

    Assessment: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency · Hawker identifies himself as the prop-168 author and uses expected pool depletion to question the usefulness of prop-165. One conditional forecast does not establish his longer-term position or prove that depletion occurred.

    Conditions: The forecast is expressly qualified by possible author bias and expectations about adoption and depletion. · Three observations of the same email must not be counted as three separate statements.

    Acknowledging the potential for author bias, there is a reasonable expectation that Prop-168 that I have submitted, will deplete the available address pool within 6 months.

    prop-165: Provision of IPv4 Address Space to IPv6-only Networks for Transitional Purpose

    Assessment: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency · He asks for withdrawal or postponement of prop-165 and gives procedural, sunset-clause and policy-development reasons. He also says additional time could improve its chance of consensus; this is a qualified recommendation about the present proposal, not evidence of a reversal.

    Conditions: Only one dated email is supplied. · Respect for an author’s effort is compatible with requesting postponement.

    This recommendation is not to minimise the importance of the author's proposal in any way or to undervalue the time they have invested in its drafting, its more so to show that greater time is required to ensure that this proposal is shaped in a way that affords it the best chance of reaching consensus, and that as a result other proposals should be considered a "greater priority".

    prop-162: WHOIS Privacy

    Assessment: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency · The WHOIS Privacy proposal appears as a scope comparison with a directory-services acceptable-use submission. That comparison does not state support for or opposition to WHOIS Privacy and cannot establish a position history.

    Conditions: Different directory-service subjects should not be treated as interchangeable policies.

    Prop-162 is based on WHOIS Privacy, the proposal submitted (based on the title) is regarding Acceptable Use Terms for APNIC Directory Services.

    prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations · prop-165: Provision of IPv4 Address Space to IPv6-only Networks for Transitional Purpose

    Assessment: Consistent · Within this email, the expectation that prop-168 could exhaust the remaining pool is used consistently as a conditional argument that prop-165 could become redundant. Supporting his own allocation proposal while questioning the usefulness and timing of another does not, by itself, establish a contradiction.

    Conditions: This is internal coherence of a single argument, not proof of consistency across time. · The predicted depletion and redundancy are not verified outcomes.

    Acknowledging the potential for author bias, there is a reasonable expectation that Prop-168 that I have submitted, will deplete the available address pool within 6 months.

    This, in and of itself, would render Prop-165 redundant.

    prop-162: WHOIS Privacy · prop-165: Provision of IPv4 Address Space to IPv6-only Networks for Transitional Purpose

    Assessment: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency · The email distinguishes WHOIS Privacy from acceptable-use terms while questioning the agenda treatment of prop-165. It supplies no comparable substantive position on WHOIS Privacy, so a cross-policy reversal cannot be assessed.

    Conditions: Agenda access, proposal maturity and substantive policy preference are different questions.

    Prop-162 is based on WHOIS Privacy, the proposal submitted (based on the title) is regarding Acceptable Use Terms for APNIC Directory Services.

    On what basis was the decision made to reinstate a proposal that was withdrawn, instead of presented as a new proposal?

    1. Aug 11, 2026 · Question or clarify

      [sig-policy] Re: Copyright and Acceptable Use Terms for APNIC Directory Services

      Could I please ask, how the Chairs have determined

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    Per-policy stance timelines:prop-156 · Unknown · No explicit position statedprop-162 · Unknown · Insufficient evidence to assess consistencyprop-164 · Unknown · No explicit position statedprop-165 · Unknown · Insufficient evidence to assess consistencyprop-168 · Unknown · Insufficient evidence to assess consistency

    Total policy messages: 3

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