This document discusses improving the quality of APNIC whois data and a new APNIC statistics tool. It reports on invalid whois contact data and efforts to address it, including easier reporting and updates. A new statistics website with interactive charts on resources like ASNs, IPv4, IPv6 is demonstrated. Members are encouraged to help by reporting invalid data and keeping their whois records up to date.

1. Issue Date:
Revision:
25/01/2016
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SANOG 27, Kathmandu
Vivek Nigam vivek@apnic.net
Tuan Nguyen tuan@apnic.net
APNIC Update

2. Agenda
• Whois data quality improvement
• New APNIC Statistics tool
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3. Why is the quality of whois data important?
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4. • Supports the operation of the Internet
• Network troubleshooting and abuse
• Fulfills the goals of addressing policy
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5. Do we need to improve whois data quality?
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6. Invalid whois contacts reported
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Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

7. Processing invalid contact reports
• Email sent to technical contacts of Member account
• Email sent to all contacts of Member account
• Phone call made to Member organization
• Log details of invalid contacts that do not get updated
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8. Case study
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9. What are we doing about it?
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10. Easier invalid contact reporting
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11. Easier invalid contact reporting
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12. Simplified whois updates
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View all objects
associated with
your account

13. Simplified whois updates
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“Search and Replace”
your whois contacts

14. Unused whois objects clean-up
• Deletion of unreferenced person and role objects that are
over 12 months old
• Script runs on the 15th of each month to delete
unreferenced objects
• Deleted objects are backed up
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15. IRT Object Campaign
• Incident Response Team
– Improve network abuse contact information in whois
• Policy implemented 8 Nov 2010
– Mandatory reference for inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num
• Multiple campaigns to promote adoption of this policy
– Reminders to create IRT
– Assist Members to create IRT
– Get Members to verify IRT
– Updated remarks attribute for all parent IP blocks
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16. What’s next?
• A simple and clear whois guide is on its way
• Review whois database training material
• Historical whois development (whowas)
• Upgrade whois database to version 4
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17. What can you do to help?
• Report any invalid whois contacts to APNIC
• Update your resource usage in the whois database
• Keep your whois contacts up to date
• Maintain your APNIC account contacts
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18. New APNIC Statistics tool

19. O3

21. New Statistics

22. ftp stats
https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/

23. Demo

24. summary

25. mouse over

26. legends

27. total

28. 2-byte ASN

29. 4-byte ASN

30. cumulative

31. different selection
options depending on
resource

32. save/export

33. pdf/png/svg
json
csv

34. ASN

35. IPv4

36. IPv6

37. subregion

38. economy

39. Organization
view

40. geolocation

41. map

43. Issue Date:
Revision:
25/01/2016
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You’re invited!