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This report provides an overview of the APNIC Status Report & Retreat Meeting held in Taipei on 22 February 2003. It covers the total APNIC membership, IPv4 and IPv6 distribution, member services, training, communications, service developments, policy developments, APNIC meetings, and other related topics.
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APNIC Status Report AP* Retreat Meeting Taipei 22 February 2003
Total APNIC Membership 2002 68 2001 97 2000 206 1999 147 1998 49 1997 86
APNIC Membership - Sub-regional Ref http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/worldregions.htm
IPv4 Distribution – Sub-regional Ref http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/worldregions.htm
Member Services • Member Service Helpdesk (April 2002) • One day turnaround time • 9:00 – 19:00 (UTC + 10 hours) • All enquiries • Hostmaster, billing, technical • Multilingual • Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Filipino (Tagalog), Hindi, Telugu, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese • Email: helpdesk@apnic.net • Account Management (May 2002) • More consistent, personalised services
Training • Training in 2002 • Increased staffing, frequency • Developed material to support RPSL • Ongoing work with AP* outreach • Future developments • Redesign current materials • Improved modular structure • Provide RPSL, IRR and DNS training • Integrate training records into MyAPNIC
Communications • Online support materials • Database FAQs for Whois v3 and IRR • Contribution to Database User Manual • Collaboration with RIPE NCC • APster • Quarterly newsletter • Issue 6 published for APNIC 15 • http://www.apnic.net/apster
Service Developments • Database upgrade (Aug 2002) • Supports RPSL (RIPE v3) • APNIC Routing Registry (Dec 2002) • Distributed service architecture • POPs in major exchange points • Existing at NSPIXP2/6, Tokyo • HKIX now established • CFP for new sites (Dec 2002) • Rootservers • Anycast editions of “F-Root”
MyAPNIC • Secure member service website • Resource management • Staff administration • Account administration • Version 1.1 launching at APNIC 15 • Update functionality • Voting
Policy Developments • NIR criteria and operational policies • APNIC accepting applications for new NIRs from 1 December 2002 • Special purpose allocations • Critical infrastructure for IPv4 and IPv6 • Root DNS, ccTLD, IANA, RIRs/NIRs • IPv6 Documentation addresses • Experimental allocations (1 year) • Plus others
APNIC Meetings • APNIC 14 • Kitakyushu, Japan, September 2002 • Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese) trial • Multicast trial • APNIC 15 • Taipei (this week) • In parallel with APRICOT2003 • Interpretation (Mandarin) and Multicast
Other… • Training workshop project • Cooperative with AIT • Infodev funding application prepared • Other funding options? • Training outsourcing to AIT • ICT R&D Programme • APNIC, IDRC, APDIP (UNDP) • WSIS meeting, Japan • APRICOT Fellowship
APNIC Report Questions?