Internet Resource Analyst, Dinesh Bakthavatchalam, gives an update on the new service initiatives APNIC have implemented in 2015, and the roadmap for 2016.
2. Agenda
• Whois data quality improvement
– Why is it important?
– What’s on APNIC’s Services Roadmap
– What can you do to help?
• What’s new in MyAPNIC
– MyAPNIC 2015 survey
– MyAPNIC Improvements
• New APNIC labs tool
– Using VizAS
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4. Why is whois data quality important?
• Supports the security and operation of the Internet
• Fulfills the goals of addressing policy
• Networking trouble shooting and abuse
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6. 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 will be backed up
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7. Promote IRT object
• Incident Response Team
– Designated contacts for network abuse reporting
• Policy implemented 8 Nov 2010
– Mandatory reference for inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num
– Required for all objects created or updated
• However, not all Members created their IRT object
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8. Creating IRT for Members
• Nearly 300 Members without IRT object
• 284 IRT objects created using their existing contact
information
• Members requested to verify their IRT objects
• 284 IRT objects were referenced to 1552 resource objects
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9. New “remarks” for resource objects
– remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
– remarks: To report network abuse, please contact the IRT
– remarks: For troubleshooting, please contact tech-c and admin-c
– remarks: For assistance, please contact the APNIC Helpdesk
– remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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10. What is next?
• A simple and clear whois guide is on its way
• Email reminder to be sent before membership renewals to
verify accuracy of whois registration
• Improved MyAPNIC features to simplify whois updates
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11. What can you do to help?
• Updating resource usage in the whois database
• Keeping whois contacts up to date
• Maintaining your APNIC account contacts
• Reporting any invalid whois contacts to APNIC
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19. Story in South Asia
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Resource Certification enabled Members
As at 26 July 2015
22.03%
40.00%
11.51%
53.33%
13.16%
15.31%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Pakistan
20. Create your ROA now!
• Almost 75% of the prefixes without ROAs
• Ease of ROA creation with MyAPNIC improvements
• Helpdesk is only a skype call away (ID: apnic-helpdesk)
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22. VizAS
• Visualization of BGP peering relationships
• Both IPv4 and IPv6
• Sources of data:
– University of Oregon’s Route View Project
– Number Resource Organization (NRO)
– RIR’s registry (RDAP)
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