APNIC Status Report

ARIN XII21-24 October, 2003

Chicago

What’s up…

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

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Jun-96

Dec-96

Jun-97

Dec-97

Jun-98

Dec-98

Jun-99

Dec-99

Jun-00

Dec-00

Jun-01

Dec-01

Jun-02

Dec-02

Jun-03

Extra LargeVery LargeLargeMediumSmallVery SmallAssociate

Members…

2002: 682001: 97

2000: 206

1999: 147

2003: 82

1998: 49

3

Africa

219

East

245

Oceania

28

Regional

179

South-Central

174

South-East

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Jul-96

Jan-97

Jul-97

Jan-98

Jul-98

Jan-99

Jul-99

Jan-00

Jul-00

Jan-01

Jul-01

Jan-02

Jul-02

Jan-03

Jul-03

AdministrationCommunicationDocumentationMember ServicesTech ServicesAPNIC Ltd

Staff…

2002: 4

2001: 7

2000: 11

1999:3

2003: 5

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

Next meeting - APNIC 17 • With APRICOT 2004, KL, Malaysia

http://www.apricot2004.net

Thanks