Situaci

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LACNIC ReportRuth PuenteExternal Relations
Officer
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What I will talk shortly

• We are still growing on numbers of resources
  being allocated
• Membership number, also growing
• Staff increasing every year (21 at the moment)
• And so are our budget

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Policy development

• New process (PDP) since last year
• Expedite process
• 2 co chairs
• Francisco Arias (Mexico)
• Eldert Louisa (Sint Maarten)
• Policy Public Forum next week with 9 policy
  proposals to be discussed (May 26-29)

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Other activities

• FRIDA
• Meeting with stakeholders
• Promote ICT research. Help researches to get fund
  for projects
• 70 participants from 10 different countries
• Contest for journalists
• Internet governance related subjects
• First time experience
• 40 participants, 10 countries from LAC region
• Results Awards to 1 written press piece from
  Brazil, and a broadcasting work from Ecuador.

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Public affairs

• Government working group
• Strength relationship
• First meeting to be held in Panama (LACNIC XII
  Meeting)
• Still active in governments environment
• Elaborating documents and proposing subjects for
  discussion
• Presenting in various foras (CITEL, eLAC)
• Co-organizing second IGF prep. meeting
• 12-14 August, Rio de Janeiro (APC, RITS LACNIC9
• Participation on IGF MAG
• Workshop proposal at the IV IGF meeting.

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Engineering Projects

• EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol)
• Extensions to standards to support IP addresses
  and ASN
• Additional method to submit information to LACNIC
• LACNIC to provide some development libraries
• Interface to be extended to the NIRs
• Fist stage to ISPs by end of May/2009
• Second stage NIRs by 2nd half of 2010

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Engineering Projects

• RPKI (Resources Public Key infrastructure)
• Being involved on discussions
• New person dedicated to the next phase
• Beta RPKI system for members. By end of 2009
• Issuing X.509/RFC 3779 certificates
• Repositories
• Web interface to manage certs and sign objects
• To form task force among members

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Meetings

• Several activities in many countries
• Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Nicaragua,
  Panama, Colombia, Sint Marteen, Trinidad and
  Tobago, Brazil ...
• IPv6 training
• Awareness of RIRs system
• Supporting other organizations events

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Thanks