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This report provides an update on the activities, meetings, and policy updates of APNIC, including membership statistics, staffing information, technical services, training, liaison efforts, and policies discussed during APNIC 16.
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APNIC Status Report LACNIC V 20-21 November 2003 Havana
What’s up… • APNIC Members • Staffing • Activities • Meetings • Policy update • Next meeting
Members… 2003: 90 2002: 68 2001: 97 2000: 206 1999: 147 1998: 49
APNIC Membership and IP Allocations (/16)
Staff… 2003: 5 2002: 4 2001: 7 2000: 11 1999:3
APNIC Membership(857 members) Executive Council(7 members) Director General DG’s Office Technical Services Member Services Administration Communications Executive Assistant Technical Services (12) Resource Services (8) Finance & Accounting (4) Comms Programme (2) Policy Liaison (2) Training (3) Office/HR (2) Events Projects (2) Documentation (4)
Member Services… • Helpdesk • Presence at APNIC and other meetings • Phone hotline (multilingual) • Response time • One day turnaround time on all requests • Exchange and training visits • Hosted visits from LACNIC, 4 NIRs • APNIC visits to RIPE NCC, CNNIC • “Corporate contact” project • Certification, contact details, authorisations
Technical Services… • Internal systems • “Allocation Manager” • Ticketing system • Meeting management reimplementation • Including APRICOT support • MyAPNIC • Version 1.2 launched August • Direct updates to WHOIS • Contact management • Online voting ready for testing
Technical Services… • Database cleanup • Unreferenced and unprotected objects • Improved consistency and statistics reporting: IPv6 & ERX, bogons • Anycast root mirror servers • Agreement with “F” (ISC) • Running: Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing • Announced: Singapore, Taipei, Brisbane • New agreement with “I” (Autonomica) • New sites in planning
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 • 20 so far this year (slowed down by SARS)
Liaison… • Area liaison officers • Pacific and South Asia • More in future • Formal liaison relationships • Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) • South Asia Network Operations Group (SANOG) • APRICOT, APIA, APT…
Meetings… • APNIC 16 • August 2003 • Seoul, Korea • In conjunction with KIOW 2003 • Regular features • Simultaneous interpretation • Multicast/webcast • Realtime reporting • Onsite noticeboard
APNIC 16 - Policies… • Prop-001-v001: Policy development process • Text proposal on ML 1 month before meeting • Comment period on ML 2 months after meeting • Final endorsement by APNIC Executive Council • Prop-002-v001: Document revision policy • Prop-005-v001: RIPE-261 follow up • Regional allocations • Larger allocation size from IANA • Size /8 or /12 needs further discussion
APNIC 16 - Policies… • 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-008-v001: IANA IPv4 resource request procedures • Prop-011-v001: IXP assignment policy • Definition amended, restriction on routing lifted • Further discussion required for remainder of proposal
APNIC 16 - Policies… • Prop-007-v001: Privacy of customer assignment records (DB SIG) • Prop-010-v001: Protecting resource records in APNIC whois database (DB SIG) • Prop-007-v001: Revised lame delegation cleanup (DNS SIG) • Informational: IPv6 Guidelines • Consensus points achieved • Now being circulated for 2 month ‘comment period’ on the ML
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
APNIC 17 - You’re Invited! • With APRICOT 2004, KL, Malaysia http://www.apricot2004.net