APNIC Annual Report 1999

1. APNIC Annual Report 1999 APNIC Annual Member MeetingSeoul, Korea, 3 March 2000

2. Report Overview • Year in review • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports

3. APNIC Annual Report 1999 APNIC... “Addressing the challenge of responsible Internet resource distribution in the Asia Pacific region.”

4. Highlights of 1999 • IPv6 services launched • Training courses held in five countries • ICANN ASO • Over 13,500 requests processed • Financial security strengthened • 59% membership growth!

5. Snapshot 2000 • APNIC region • Members now in 34 of 62 AP “economies”(5 new in 1999) • APNIC membership • Increased from 246 to 396 in 1999 • APNIC Executive Council (EC) • Increased from 5 to 7 members in 1999 • APNIC secretariat • Grew from 8 to 13 staff in 1999

6. APNIC Structure

7. Report Overview • Brief overview of APNIC • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports (Kyoko Day)

8. Membership Growth

9. Membership Growth

10. Request Tracking

11. Budget Performance

12. Policy Development • Policy documentation • Policies for Address Space Management in the Asia Pacific Region • Provisional IPv6 Assignment and Allocation Policy • Open policy meeting - APRICOT2000 • Input from APNIC and community • Report from session chair later

13. Policy Development • Other documentation • Document revision policy • Draft Membership Agreement • For discussion later • Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) • For staff, contractors, and EC

14. Other developments • Member survey • First ever for APNIC • Basis for APNIC Strategic Planning • Strategic planning • First ever for APNIC • Basis for APNIC workplan (later) • Security and insurance • Previously incomplete coverage

15. Report Overview • Brief overview of APNIC • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports (Kyoko Day)

16. Internet community • AP* coordination • RIR coordination • Other coordination • ICANN developments

17. AP* Coordination • APRICOT • 1999: Member training and AMM • 2000: Tutorials, SIG Track and AMM • APNG • USD10,000 donation approved by EC • APIA • Gold membership, Newsletter coordination • Other AP* • APAN meeting, AP* retreat etc

18. RIR and Other coordination • RIPE • Vienna* (May), Amsterdam (Sep) • ARIN • Denver* (Oct) • IETF • Minneapolis* (Mar), Oslo (Jul), Washington DC (Nov) • ICANN meetings • Santiago* (Aug) and Los Angeles (Nov) (*) ASO-related open meetings

19. ICANN Developments • Open forum meetings on ASO • ASO MoU development • AC nomination and appointments • ASO secretariat • Other • Emerging Registry Criteria • Task Force on Funding - TFF • Input on At-Large Membership

20. Report Overview • Brief overview of APNIC • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports (Kyoko Day)

21. APNIC Resources • Consumption rate (3 years) • IP 590,000 IP/month (0.42 x /8 per year) • ASN 22 ASN/month (264 per year) • Consumption rate (1999) • IP 807,000 IP/month (0.58 x /8 per year) • ASN 27 ASN/month (324 per year) • Consumption rate (6 months) • IP 897,000 IP/month (0.64 x /8 per year) • ASN 40 ASN/month (480 per year)

22. IPv4 Allocation Service

23. ASN Allocation Service

24. IPv4 Allocation Service

25. ASN Allocation Service

26. IPv6 Allocation Service • Launched in April 1999 • Global policy development by RIRs • Input from regional Communities, IETF, 6BONE • Presented to IAB, March 1999 • Policy document currently under 1st review • Allocations to date • APNIC 8 • ARIN 2 • RIPE NCC 11

27. IPv6 Allocation Service

28. Training Services • Training course held in • SG (Mar), IN (Jun), HK (Jul), PH (Nov) • Without dedicated staff! • Training manager recruitment • Six month delay after selection in June (visa) • Schedule to be developed • Plan to call for ‘Expressions of interest’ from members • Coordination with Member and/or AP* activities where possible

29. Report Overview • Brief overview of APNIC • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports (Kyoko Day)

30. Operations and Infrastructure • Automation • CA feasibility project • Y2K compliance • Other developments • Operational metrics

31. Automation • Internal systems architecture • Database backend: MySQL • Middleware: Perl object library, CORBA later • Interface: Web/CGI, Java later • Development toolkit • Object library • Results • in-addr and AS request processing • Member administration under beta test

32. In-addr.arpa Processing • Zone file generation • Previously manual process • Now automatic generation from database objects: Monday-Friday 10am AEST • Creation/Modification via web form • Maintainer authentication/authorisation • Automatic verification • Nameserver verification • Consistency/sanity checking

33. CA Feasibility Project • Motivation • Response to demand for security in email, web and database interactions • Unified standard “single key” environment • Conclusions • Significant benefits for members’ security • Growing Internet standards support for PKI • Presented during APRICOT Security SIG • Report available online • http://www.apnic.net/ca

34. Other Developments • Non-stop cluster deployed • Compaq/SCO sponsored • Upgraded connectivity to E1 (2Mbps) • Redundant 256K now installed • Ticketing system upgrade to “RT” • REQ with SQL backend • With hostmaster mailbox filtering • Comprehensive monitoring • “NOCOL”

35. Other Developments • Upgrades to support IPv6 • Whois and DNS services • Internal systems • Y2K • Staffed over transition period • No problems encountered • Recruitment • DBA and programmer staff appointed

36. Whois Queries

37. HTTP (WWW) Queries

38. Report Overview • Brief overview of APNIC • Growth & development • APNIC in the Internet community • Service delivery • Operations and infrastructure • Financial reports (Kyoko Day)

39. APNIC Annual Report 1999 • Questions?