AussieISP Fall ‘99Sydney, 9 April 1999

Overview and Status Report

APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Recent Developments• Resource Status• Future Directions

• Questions?

APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Recent Developments• Resource Status• Future Directions

• Questions?

What is APNIC?

• Regional Internet Registry (RIR)for the Asia Pacific Region

• Non-profit, neutral and impartial

• Membership-based organisation

• Established 1993, Tokyo, Japan

• Relocated in 1998 to Brisbane, Australia– Reduction of costs and complexity

ARIN - Americas

RIPE NCC - Europe

APNIC - Asia Pacific

Regional Registry Areas

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Registry Hierarchy

ASO

ICANN

APNIC Organisation

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APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Recent Developments• Resource Status• Future Directions

• Questions?

APNIC Services

• Resource allocation• Internet (IP) Addresses

• Autonomous System (AS) numbers

• in-addr.arpa Domains

• Resource registration• Registration Service

• Registration Servers: “whois” and Reverse DNS

• Member training and support

APNIC Resources

• Internet (IP) Addresses– Limited by 32-bit number space– Limited by need for aggregation– Major management responsibility of APNIC

• Autonomous System (AS) Numbers– Limited by 16-bit identifier (65535 ASNs)– No immediate shortage

• in-addr.arpa Domains– No practical limitation

APNIC Membership (1)

• Membership is Open• ISPs, National Internet Registries and NICs,

and multinational organisations• Member size self-assessed (currently)• Requirements: Payment of fees

Location in the AP region

• Benefits of Membership• Resource allocation and registration• Free attendance and voting at APNIC meetings• NOT: Automatic or Easier Address Allocation

APNIC Membership (2)

• Annual feesSmall 1 vote USD 2500/year

Medium 2 votes USD 5000/year

Large 4 votes USD 10000/year

Very Large 8 votes USD 20000/year

• Other fees• Startup USD 1000

• Allocation fees for confederations only

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APNIC Member Distribution

APNIC in Australia

• AU has largest APNIC Membership (of all ISO3166 codes)

• Percentage of Membership: 21% (1st)

• Percentage of IP Allocations: 14% (3rd)

• Percentage of ASN Allocs: 28% (1st)

• Regional charts to follow...

APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Recent Developments• Resource Status• Future Directions

• Questions?

APNIC Policies- Background

• Scalability of the Internet• CIDR & aggregation are vital

• Routing instability• Legacy routing structure, Router overload

• IPv4 address space is finite• Historically, many wasteful, “classful” assignments

• Fairness and Consistency• In the interests of the AP and Global communities

APNIC Policies- Objectives

• First objective: – Ensuring efficient use and conservation of resources

• Second objective : – Limiting growth of routable prefixes

• Third objective : – Fairness and Consistency in procedures– Expertise and Neutrality of registry

• Policies defined by the Internet community– Implemented by APNIC and the APNIC community (and of course

by the other registries)

APNIC Policies- IP Addresses

• Based on global Internet registry policies• RFC 2050 (1996)

• Other RIR policies

• APNIC Policy document being drafted

• Minimum practical allocation • /19 - under review at global level

• “Slow Start” policy for new members

• Allocation of “PA” Address Space• Provider-Aggregatable

• Customer assignments are non-portable

• New allocations • Completed request form in detail (next slide)

• Demonstrated plan for efficient address space usage

• Additional allocations • Completed request form in detail (next slide)

• Demonstrated plan for efficient address space usage

• Assigned address space economically

• APNIC database updated - to end user level

• How quickly the initial allocation is consumed

APNIC Allocation Policies- IP Addresses

• APNIC follows “second-opinion” process• New assignments can require a “second-opinion”

• Submit request on “second-opinion” request form

• APNIC “assignment window”• The amount of address space a member may assign

without a “second opinion”

• Starts at zero, increases based on efficiency of assignment

• Assignment window size• Increased by APNIC as member gains experience

• NOTE: assignment window can also be decreased

APNIC Assignment Policies- IP Addresses

• Assignments based on requirements • Documentation must be detailed• Justification is based on number of hosts

initially, after 1 year, and after 2 years• Address space assignment should maximise utilisation

(and therefore minimise wastage)• Classless assignments, showing use of VLSM• Note: RFC1918, HTTP 1.1, NAT, IP unnumbered...

• Efficient address space assignments are vital for the future of the Internet!

APNIC Assignment Policies- IP Addresses

APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Resource Status• Recent Developments• Future Directions

• Questions?

Activities - IP Allocation

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Activities - ASN Allocation

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Resource Status (Dec 1998)

Address Block Addresses %Allocated %Reserved %Free Date Delgated by the IANA202/7 33554432 60.32 0.00 39.68 January 10, 1994169.208/13 1048576 0.00 0.00 100.00 June 6, 1995210/7 33554432 58.10 0.00 41.90 September 16, 199661/8 16777216 0.05 0.00 99.95 April 25, 1997Total 84934656 36.03 0.00 63.97

As Block Ases %Allocated %Reserved %Free Date Delgated by the IANA4608-4863 256 98.83 0.00 1.17 10-Jan-947467-7722 256 100.00 0.00 0.00 6-Jun-959261-10239 979 20.33 0.00 79.67 16-Sep-96Total 1491 47.48 0.00 52.52

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APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Resource Status• Recent Developments• Future Directions

• Questions?

Recent Developments (1)

• Secretariat Relocation• Started Feb 1998, completed Aug 1998

• Capacity Building• Systems, Services, Staffing

• Documentation Activities• Review and Update, Restructure

• Training Services• Started at APRICOT

Recent Developments (2)

• Staff capacity building• Jan 1998: 5

• Aug 1998: 7

• May 1999: 10

• Dec 1999: 15 (?)

• Recent recruitment• New staff in December 1998

– System Admin, Tech Writer

• Hostmaster recruitment restarted

Recent Developments (3)

• Tokyo mirrors established– Servers at NSPIXP-II (Tokyo) upgraded in December 1998

• Primary server upgrade– Primary server farm upgrade scheduled since January 1999

– Two node “high-availability” cluster(2xPII/450, 12Gbytes RAID, 512M etc)

– Final installation this month

– Sponsored by COMPAQ and SCO

• Internal server upgrades

APNIC Overview

• What is APNIC?• Services and Membership• Policies• Recent Developments• Resource Status• Future Directions

• Questions?

Future Directions (1)

• Member Services 1999– Documentation update, extension, translation– Quality of services to improve– Training services to begin– IPv6 Allocation service on trial from Q1 1999– Fee structure review

• Internet “Governance”– Ongoing work on ICANN and the ASO

Future Directions (2)

• Technical Services 1999– whois reimplementation (with RIPE NCC)– Routing registry (test server deployed)– Higher redundancy - Servers and Connectivity– Certification / Security

• Internal Systems– Member management– in-addr.arpa automation

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Registry Hierarchy

ASO

ICANN

ICANN and the ASO

• Supporting Organisations of ICANN:• Address Supporting Organisation (ASO)• Domain Name Supporting Organisation (DNSO)• Protocol Supporting Organisation (PSO)

• SO Requirements:i) Open Membership Criteria

ii) Policy Development Procedures

iii) Openness and Transparency

iv) International and Diverse Participation

v) Disclosure of Interests

vi) Funding

Questions?

http://www.apnic.net

Overview and Status Report