APNIC

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APNIC

• APNG CAMP
• 18 July 2006

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What is APNIC?

• Regional Internet address Registry (RIR)
• Internet resource allocation services
• Serving around 60 countries of the Asia Pacific
• Industry self-regulatory structure
• Non-profit, neutral and independent
• Open membership-based body
• RIRs first established in early 1990s
• In response to RFC1338 (1992)
• Voluntarily by consensus of community
• In the Internet Tradition
• Consensus-based, open and transparent

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Who is APNIC?
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What do RIRs do?

• Internet resource allocation
• Primarily, IP addresses IPv4 and IPv6
• Receive resources from IANA/ICANN, and
  redistribute to ISPs on a regional basis
• Registration services (whois)
• Policy development and coordination
• Open Policy Meetings and processes
• Training and outreach
• Training courses, seminars, conferences
• Liaison IETF, ITU, APT, PITA, APEC
• Publications
• Newsletters, reports, web site

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RIR Policy Process
OPEN
Need
Anyone can participate
Discuss
Evaluate
TRANSPARENT
BOTTOM UP
Implement
Consensus
Internet community proposes and approves policy
All decisions policies documented freely
available to anyone
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APNIC Status July 2006

• Membership
• 1250 ISPs
• 6 NIRs (CN, ID, JP, KR, TW, VN)
• Staff
• 48 staff
• 15 nationalities and languages
• Services
• Most active RIR (highest IPv4 alloc)
• Training, RD, rootservers, ICONS
• Budget
• USD 6.2M
• Balanced

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New Services

• VOIP
• PABX phone system replaced
• siphelpdesk_at_voip.apnic.net
• MyAPNIC
• Online voting implemented
• MyAPNIC lite leaner and meaner
• Helpdesk
• Extended helpdesk hours/days
• live chat
• Projects
• Recovery of unused address space
• De-bogonise new and recovered addresses
• ICONS ISP support website

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APNIC eLearning
View A demonstration
Help a range of options
Explore Objects of a lesson
Forum best way to seek help discuss issues
Practice A process
Home Main menu
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Research and Development

• Resource certification
• Trial began in 2005
• Full service trial in 2006
• Prefix history analysis
• 8-year history of 650,000 prefixes (20 Gb)
• Query prefix advert history, ASN details etc
• Supporting debogon and reclamation projects
• ASNs
• Consumption estimates
• 32-bit ASN study and proposals
• Internet resource reports and projections
• http//www.potaroo.net

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Root nameservers
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ICONS
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APNIC meetings

• APNIC 22
• Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 5 to 8 September 2006
• APRICOT 2007, APNIC 23
• Bali, Indonesia
• 27 February to 2 March 2007
• All invited !!!
• http//www.apnic.net/meetings

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Thanks!

• pwilson_at_apnic.net