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APNIC Status Report

LACNIC VI

Mar 29 – Apr 1, 2004

Montevideo, Uruguay

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Total Membership

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APNIC Secretariat Staffing

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Administration

Communication

Documentation

Member Services

Tech Services

APNIC Ltd

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Member Services

• Helpdesk• Phone hotline - increasing use• Presence at APNIC and other meetings

• Response time• One day turnaround time on all requests

• Account management• 8 hostmasters, teams of two per account• More personal service

• Exchange and training visits from NIRs• KRNIC (Feb), JPNIC & CNNIC (Mar)

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Training Services

• 23 Courses during 2003• Total of 1081 trainees• Some cancellations due to SARS

• Core courses• Internet Resource Management I• Internet Resource Management II• Internet Resource Management Essentials

• Technical Courses• DNS Practical Workshop (2 day)• DNS Advanced Workshop (4 day)• IRR Tutorial with hands-on Lab (1 day)

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• NIRs • Training offered at NIR meetings (ID, CN, TW)

• SOI-Asia, Japan• On-line video delivery trial

• AIT, Thailand• Training administration support

• intERLab, Thailand• AIT regional training centre

Training Collaboration

intERLab

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Policy Development (APNIC16)

• EC endorsed decisions from APNIC16• prop-001-v001 Policy process modification • prop-002-v001 Documentation policy• prop-004-v001 Lame delegation cleanup revised• prop-006-v001 Supporting historical resource

transfers• prop-007-v001 Privacy of customer assignment

records• prop-008-v001 IANA IPv4 resource request

procedures• prop-010-v001 Protecting resource records in

APNIC Whois DB• prop-011-v001 IXP assignments

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Policy Development (APNIC17)• Consensus proposals from APNIC17

• prop-014-v001 Proposal to lower the IPv4 minimum allocation size and initial allocation criteria in the Asia Pacific region

• prop-015-v001 Proposal to allocate global unicast IPv6 address space to 'unconnected' networks

• prop-016-v001 IPv6 allocations to IPv4 networks• prop-017-v001 Proposal to recover unused address

space• prop-018-v001 Proposal to protect historical resource

records in the APNIC whois DB

• All have been sent to SIG mailing lists for 8 week ‘comment period’

• If consensus, EC will be asked to endorse

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Technical Services

• MyAPNIC secure LIR portal• 528 individual users registered• Version 1.3 launched APNIC17

• Technical menu, includes ‘looking glass’• IPv4 online request, with data pre-loading• Online voting system• Bulk data up & download (whois data)• Integration with ticketing system

• Improvements in X.509 CA• Hardware token engine in deployment• Ongoing analysis of PKIX/s-BGP• 906 certificates issued

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MyAPNIC – Online voting

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Regional Infrastructure Services

• APNIC POP• APNIC DNS services, whois

• AU,HK,JP at present

• Root server instances

• Root servers• “Anycast” mirror servers• Agreements with “F” (ISC) and “I” (Autonomica)

• Deployments so far…• 2003: HK, KR, CN, TW, SG • 2004: AU, HK (I)

• EOIs: TH, MY, IN, SG, KH, VN and more

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Communications

• APster • Issue 9 just released• Articles on:

• Internet in Malaysia• APCERT in the region• "The Genius of the

Internet“ (ISOC)

• Available onlinehttp://www.apnic.net/docs/apster/

• Annual Report 2003• Available online shortly

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Fiji for APNIC 18• Sheraton Resorts hotel• 31 August – 3 September

2004• First time in the Pacific• http://www.apnic.net/

meetings/upcoming/index.html• All welcome !

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Questions?

• Thank you for listening