APNIC Status Report

ARIN XII21-24 October, 2003

Chicago

What’s up…

• APNIC Members• Staffing• Activities• Meetings• Policy update• Next meeting

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AdministrationCommunicationDocumentationMember ServicesTech ServicesAPNIC Ltd

New arrivals…

Born during APNIC16!

Member Services

Communications

And another first for APNIC…

Member Services…

• Helpdesk– Presence at APNIC and other meetings– Phone hotline

• Response time– One day turnaround time on all requests

• “Corporate contact” project– Certification, contact details, authorisations

• Exchange and training visits– Hosted visits from LACNIC, 4 NIRs– APNIC visits to RIPE NCC, CNNIC

Technical Services…

• Anycast root mirror servers– Agreement with “F” (ISC)

• Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing (test)– New agreement with “I” (Autonomica)– 5 sites in planning

• for deployment in next 6 months

• Database cleanup– Unreferenced and unprotected objects– Improved consistency and statistics

reporting: IPv6 & ERX, bogons

Technical Services…

• Internal systems– “Allocation Manager”– Ticketing system– Meeting management redesign

• Including APRICOT support

• MyAPNIC– Version 1.2 launched August– Direct updates to WHOIS– Contact management– Online voting ready for testing

Training…

• Updated Training courses– Internet Resource Management I– Internet Resource Management II– DNS, Routing Registry

• Collaborations– Trial of on-line video delivery with SOI-Asia, JP– Outsource Training Admin to AIT, TH

• 2003 training– 15 so far this year (slowed down by SARS)– Another 8 by the end of the year

Area Liaisons…

• Appointments– Pacific: Savenaca Vocea– South Asia: recruiting

• Strengthening stakeholder relationships– MoUs

• Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA)

• South Asia Network Operations Group (SANOG)

• APRICOT…

16th APNIC Open Policy Meeting

• 19th – 22nd August, Seoul, Korea

• Held in conjunction with Korea Internet Operations Workshop (KIOW)

• Longest banners of any APNIC meeting

APNIC16 – Policy Update

• Consensus points only – Now being circulated for 2 month ‘comment period’

on the ML• Prop-001-v001: Revised policy development

process– Text proposal on ML 1 month before meeting– ‘Comment period’ on ML 2 months after meeting– Final endorsement from EC

• Prop-002-v001: Document revision policy• Prop-008-v001: IANA IPv4 resource request

procedures

Policy Update from APNIC16..• Prop-005-v001: RIPE-261 follow up

– Regional allocations – Larger allocation size from IANA

• Size /8 or /12 needs further discussion• Prop-006-v001: Historical resource transfers

– Allows transfers from ‘historical’ to ‘current’ status– Recipient must be an APNIC member– Address space subject to current policy framework

• Prop-011-v001: Revised IXP assignment policy– Definition amended, restriction on routing lifted– Further discussion required for remainder of

proposal

Policy Update from APNIC16

• Database SIG– Prop-007-v001: Privacy of customer

assignment records– Prop-010-v001: Protecting resource

records in APNIC whois database • DNS SIG

– Prop-007-v001: Revised lame delegation cleanup

• Informational only– Create a guidelines document to explain

existing IPv6 policy

APNIC 16 – Fellowship fund

• First at APNIC16– 12 APNIC fellows supported

• Sponsorship contribution– 15% of sponsorships: USD $7,000

• World Bank infoDev program– infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund (iCSF)– USD $15,000 grant

How to decide an AC Election…

Next meeting - APNIC 17

• With APRICOT 2004, KL, Malaysia

http://www.apricot2004.net

Thanks