Policy Tracker, September 2026

What changed

Status of the proposals covered in this month's registry stories, as of 30 September 2026.

ARIN

Proposal	Status
ARIN-2025-3 Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria	Recommended Draft Policy
ARIN-2026-5 Define Out Of Region Use	Draft Policy

Teams announcing ARIN space from cloud regions abroad should follow both drafts.

RIPE NCC

Proposal	Status
2026-01 Simplify assignment of first ASN	Review Phase
2024-01 Revised IPv6 PI Assignment Policy	Review Phase

Both reached Review Phase. The RIPE Chair Team reported that on 22 September.

APNIC

Proposal	Status
prop-169 and prop-170	Consensus at APNIC 62
prop-164, prop-168, prop-171	Returned to mailing list
prop-165, prop-172	Under discussion, no consensus call

With prop-168 returned, the maximum from APNIC's remaining IPv4 pool stays at a /23 for now.

Update - 10 November 2026

Rechecked against the live ARIN, RIPE and APNIC indexes on 10 November 2026.

• RIPE 2024-01 is withdrawn. The proposers withdrew it on 23 September 2026; the RIPE NCC announced that on 28 September. The September table above still shows Review Phase because that was the Chair Team's 22 September report. The proposal page and the archived-proposals list now show Withdrawn. See the update on our first-ASN and IPv6 PI story.
• ARIN-2025-3 and ARIN-2026-5 are unchanged on the drafts index: Recommended Draft Policy and Draft Policy.
• APNIC prop-169 and prop-170 remain under “Reached consensus at APNIC 62” and are not on the Implemented list. prop-168 is still on the Policy SIG mailing list, so the /23 maximum from APNIC's remaining IPv4 pool still holds.
• Separate Last Call: ARIN-2025-1 and ARIN-2025-8 entered Last Call on 28 October, ending 11 November. They were not rows in this September snapshot. Coverage is in ARIN puts ISP/LIR definitions and 4.10 in-region use into Last Call.

Why it matters for BYOIP teams

Community discussions that are not formal proposals are labelled as discussions. The RIPE Routing Working Group mailing list discussed using remote-triggered blackhole routing together with RPKI. The RIPE Chair Team's September 2026 report is the source for that discussion. It is relevant to BYOIP customers using DDoS scrubbing services.