LACNIC REPORT

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LACNICREPORT

• Raúl Echeberría
• raul_at_lacnic.net

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Whats LACNIC?

• LACNIC in an organization
• Not for profit, incorporated in Uruguay and
  recognized as an International Organization by
  the Uruguayan Government.
• Membership based.
• That works under policies that are developed in
  open, transparent and participative bottom up
  processes.
• Who manage the Numbering Internet Resources for
  the Latinamerican and the Caribbean region
  assuring that all the interested parties have an
  equitable access to those resources and working
  based in spirit of stewardship and services to
  the community.
• Who represents the effort of the regional
  industry to manage the above mentioned resources
  in a self-regulation manner.

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RIRs
AFRINIC has already received the provisional
recognition from ICANN and final recognition is
expected for this meeting.
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LACNIC - History

• Year 1997 Project from the Academic sector.
  Year1999 Foundation of LACNIC (AHCIET, CABASE,
  eCOM-LAC, ENRED, NIC México, NIC Brasil)
• Year 2000 Politic consolidation of LACNIC
• Year 2001 Setting up.
• Year 2002 End of transition, implementation of
  own procedures and policies.
• Year 2003 International networking.
• Year 2004 Growing, planning and strategic view.

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Formal Recognition

• LACNIC became the forth RIR in the world in
  31/10/2002 through the ICANN Board resolution in
  Shanghai meeting.
• http//www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-31oct02
  .htmFinalApprovalofLACNIC
• Confirmed through the IANA report in 7/11/2002
• http//www.iana.org/reports/lacnic-report-07nov02.
  htm

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REGION OF SERVICE
LACNIC serves 29 territories in Latinamerica and
the Caribbean

• ARGENTINA GUYANA
• ARUBA HAITI
• BELIZE HONDURAS
• BOLIVIA MEXICO
• BRAZIL ANTILLAS HOLANDESAS
• CHILE NICARAGUA
• COLOMBIA PANAMA
• COSTA RICA PARAGUAY
• CUBA PERU
• REPUBLICA DOMINICANA SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE
  SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
• ECUADOR SURINAME
• EL SALVADOR TRINIDAD Y TOBAGO
• ISLAS MALVINAS (FALKLAND ISLANDS) URUGUAY
• GUYANA FRANCESA VENEZUELA
• GUATEMALA

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JAN 1st 1998 MAR 31st 2005
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MAR 31st 2005
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MEMBERSHIP DISTRIBUTED BY COUNTRY
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IPv4 ALLOCATIONS BY COUNTRY
Mar 31st 2005 Total 121,582 /24
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ASN DISTRIBUTION BY COUNTRY
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IPv4 ALLOCATION PER SEMESTERMAR 31st 2005
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/24 AMOUNT PER SEMESTERMAR 31st 2005
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REGISTRATION SERVICESREQUEST RECEIVED PER
SEMESTER
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LACNIC Objectives

• To offer high quality services to the regional
  Internet community, based on its needs and
  interests.
• To Contribute to the best representation of the
  regional interests in the international forums
• To Promote the generation of awareness in the
  ICTs and Internet fields in the region.
• To become a powerful tool for contributing with
  the development of ICTs and Intenrnet in
  Latinamerican and the Caribbean region.
• To consolidate an efficient, independent,
  transparent and participative self regulation
  model.

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Services

• Multi-linguistic Portugues, English, Español
• Friendly Interfaces.
• Permanent Improvement Processes.
• Customer oriented.
• Customer Surveys.
• 20 consulted. 3.7 points of a maximum of 4.
• More staff involved in customer care.
• Other services. (SIARI)
• Training meetings.
• The democratic characteristic of LACNIC assure
  the representation of the regional interests.

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TRAINING 2003

• Argentina (Buenos Aires)
• Chile (Santiago)
• Uruguay (Montevideo)
• Colombia (Bogota)
• Venezuela (Merida)
• Cuba (Havana)

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TRAINING - 2004
México (Monterrey, México)
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Self regulation

• Open, Transparent and Participative Policy
  Development Process.
• Not restricted to the members.
• LACNIC doesnt develop policies, we implement and
  apply policies.
• Bases in email lists. (http//lacnic.net/en/listas
  .html)
• Open Public Forums
• Policy Chair elected by the community, not by
  LACNIC.
• Openness to every interested party.
• LACNIC is very interested in the relationship
  with all the stakeholder including governments,
  international organizations, private sector
  associations, civil society organizations, etc.
• Coordination with the other RIRs (creation of the
  NRO)
• Number Resource Organization (NRO) www.nro.net

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LACNICs MEETINGS

• LACNIC I , Diciembre 2000, Buenos Aires,
  Argentina
• LACNIC II, Noviembre 2001, San Pablo, Brasil
• LACNIC III, Noviembre 2002, Ciudad de México,
  México
• LACNIC IV, Abril 2003, Santiago de Chile, Chile
• LACNIC V, Noviembre 2003, Havana, Cuba
• LACNIC VI, Marzo 2004, Montevideo, Uruguay
• LACNIC VII, Octubre 2004, San José, Costa Rica

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TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION

• Standards and ad-hoc trainings.
• Participation and sponsorship of several other
  meetings
• WALC Workshop for América Latina y Caribe in
  network technologies.
• NAPLA
• FLIP-6 Latinamerican IPv6 Forum.
• IPv6 LAC Task Force
• Looking for the convergence of different
  organizations and meetings, toward the creation
  of a regional network operators forum.

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Promotion and Development of ICTs

• FRIDA Program
• Agreements with Universities and other
  organizations.
• Support to LACTLD, eCOM-LAC, CLARA.
• Research Projects Funding.
• Raíces Project.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

• FRIDA Program www.programafrida.net
• It is an joint initiative of LACNIC, The
  Institute for the Connectivity in The Americas
  (ICA) and the International Development Research
  Center IDRC (Canada) and supported by Internet
  Society (ISOC) and GKP.
• Small grants program to support research in ICTs
  in Latin America. US 480 k in total.
• 12 projects already approved.
• Call 2005. Deadline 28th February.
• Raíces - http//lacnic.net/en/raices/
• Deployment of F-Root in LACNIC region.
• 2 more F-Root anycast copies expected for second
  quarter.

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OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES

• New procedures available for return resources.
• 316 ASNs holders with whom LACNIC didnt have
  contact. A direct contact campaign has held
  during 2004.
• We also held a campaing to contact all of our
  members to
• Inform them about elections and LACNIC VII
• Encourage them to update their information in the
  Database.
• Promote the suscription to our lists
• Know what they think about our services.
• Very good results of those campaigns during 2004.
  32 of the members participated in the election
  for board members.
• Planning new actions of this type for May 2005.

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PRIORITIES FOR 2005

• High involvement in Internet Governance
  discussion. (WSIS, WGIG, Regional forums)
• Customer oriented services.
• Better services
• Better communication
• Strategic planning.

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EVALUATION AFTER 2 YEARS

• Bigger influence in internet governance
  structures
• Direct contacts with representatives of technical
  and policy forums and with the more important
  organizations
• Increase of Awareness and more coordination and
  experiences/knowledge exchange among operators
• The open policy forum is an important technical
  forum in the region. Possibility to collaborate
  with others forums.
• Funds for technical activities, training
  meetings, and events organization
• Agreements and cooperation with others
  organizations. Establishment of funds for
  research
• Latinoamerican technical with major international
  projection
• Policies submitted to regional needs.

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LACNIC VIII

• LACNIC VIII
• June 27th 30th 2005, Lima, Perú
• Hotel Miraflores Park
• More information coming soon at www.lacnic.net
• Tutorials (IPv6, DNS)
• IPv6 Latinamerican Forum FLIP-6
• Open Policy Forum
• NAPLA 2005 (Latinamerican NAPs meeting)

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• Muchas Gracias !
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