4. IPv4 ‘categories’ at APNIC
• 103.X.X.X block is APNIC’s final /8, out of the 48 /8s given
by IANA
- 59% of that block remaining as of 31 March 2016
• Non-103 block, also known as “recovered pool”, consists of
recovered address space given by IANA and address
space recovered by APNIC
- Only about 4% of a /8 remaining as of 31 March 2016
4
5. IPv4 delegation for Members
5
103/8
(Final /8 pool )
Non-103/8
(Recovered pool)
A Member
Member
103/8 – Final /8 Pool Recovered Pool
1st /22 2nd /22
6. 6
289 Members as of 18 March 2016
195
94
Final /22 taken
114
175
Recovered /22 taken
BD resource statistics
7. Status of recovered IPv4 pool
• Current “recovered pool” of IPv4 might exhaust in May,
2016
• Waiting queue will be implemented upon exhaustion
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8. Two things you can do…
8
Referral applications
Transfer listing page
9. Referral applications
9
ABC-AP
Contact: John@abc.com
Bill To: ABC Pvt Ltd
XYZ-AP
Contact: Jane@xyz.com
Bill To: XYZ Pvt Ltd
XYZ-AP
Contact: John@abc.com
Bill To: ABC Pvt Ltd
You are free to negotiate
the referrer and referee
relationship with your
customer
From APNIC’s point of
view, your customer is
the custodian of the IP
resources
but
or
10. IPv4 Transfer
10
Intend to close account
Do not want that much
IPv4
www.apnic.net/pre-approval-listing
Contact a Member
through APNIC
Negotiate with Member
Transfer Resources
Close
Account
Ask APNIC to reclaim
resources
Make use of the IPv4 transfer listing page
14. IPv6 – regional deployment
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Country IPv6 Capable %
Japan 14.25
Malaysia 12.91
India 0.87
China 0.56
Indonesia 0.05
Nepal 0.00
Myanmar 0.00
0.03%
Source : labs.apnic.net
15. 15
BD IPv6 resource statistics
121
168
IPv6 taken • Additional fees
• Documents
• Questions
• Waiting time Few
mins
17. IPv6 support from APNIC: Training
17
www.apnic.net/training
eLearning
Workshops
18. IPv6 support, information and
assistance
18
• www.apnic.net/IPv6
• IPv6 data and statistics
• IPv6 for mobile networks
• IPv4 to IPv6 transition case studies
• Best practices
• Information for network engineers
• Technical assistance to your organization
• Jan 2015 – Sri Lanka
• May 2015 – Bangladesh
• July 2015 – Thailand
19. Agenda
• IPv4: BD pool status and statistics
• IPv6: BD global growth and adoption
• MyAPNIC improvements and benefits
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20. MyAPNIC improvements
• Reverse DNS page – LIVE
• Whois contact update feature - LIVE
• Account contact management - LIVE
• Route/ROA management – coming soon!
20
21. New Reverse DNS page: Benefits
• Access to all your rDNS records in one page
• Update multiple domain objects at once
• Ability to test domains
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22. New Reverse DNS page: Preview
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• All your IPv4 and IPv6 rDNS records in one page
• Easier to update and test if they are configured correctly
23. Whois contact update page: Benefits
• Lists all person/role objects managed by your
maintainer
• Partly pre-filled template when adding a new
person/role object
• Ability to select and update multiple objects in a
GUI
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25. New contact details update page:
Benefits
• Paperless – no scanning and composing emails required in
most cases
– Paper forms will be used in case where there are no existing
Corporate Contacts
• Technical and billing contacts can nominate new contacts,
and Corporate Contacts get a link to approve via email
• Quicker
25
28. Route and ROA management :
Benefits
• Displays all your route objects in one page
• Ability to create routes with ASNs outside your
account
• Route can be created together with ROAs
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----- Meeting Notes (1/04/16 19:21) -----
Good afternoon everyone....My Name is Pubudu, from APNIC member services. For those who are new to APNIC, APNIC stands for Asia Pacific Network information center, one of the 5 RIRs in the world. APNIC is involved mainly in distribution and registration of IP resource in the Asia Pacific region, among many other things.
In the next 20 minutes I will give you some IPv4 related updates, and some IPv6 statistics, and introduce few MyAPNIC improvements we recently implemented.
This graph is which is a very popular one.. shows the depletion of IPv4 resources in all five RIRs. Because of /8 policy you can see APNICs line, which is dark blue is steady depleting, and it will survive maybe around 2020/21 according to the projection. ARIN for example which did not have any restrictions, exhausted their IPv4 pool last year. LACNIC looks like the second RIR to run out of IPv4 which would be around mid 2017.
At APNIC every new member is eligible to get a maximum of /21 IPv4 space. However, it is not a continuous block. It comes as two /22s.
One block is called the 103 block, which is the final /8. As of now, 59% of that block is remaining which is around 10 million address.
Second pool is called the recovered pool, this pool consists of IPv4 addresses given by IANA as well as addresses recovered from APNIC account closures etc
The size of this pool is about 4% of a /8, which is around 700,000 IP addresses.
When a member requests for IPv4 resources, he will get up to a /22 from the final /8 block, and if he wants more he can get upto another /22 which will be given from this recovered pool
If you take a closer look at APNIC accounts in Bangladesh, We have 289 members as of mid march, 195 accounts have already taken the first 22. The other 94 account may have taken IP resource before final /8 policy was implemented or they only have ASN, and IPv6 resources.
From all the members 114 has taken the recovered address space too. Which is means they cannot get any more IPv4 addresses from APNIC directly.
At our current delegation rate, we may exhaust this recovered pool roughly around May, 2016, which is next month. After that, whoever wants to get a second /22 may have to wait in a queue until any resources can be recovered.
At helpdesk we get requests everyday saying “Our business is growing, our customer base is expanding, we need more IPv4 space”.
Although APNIC cannot delegate more resources directly, there are couple of ways you try ..in order to get more resources. Namely…
I am not going to explain in details how to put through a referral application. If you want to know, you can meet me after the presentation or call our helpdesk line.
But I will show the kind of relationship you may have with your customer once they become APNIC member on your referral.
From APNICs point of view they will become the actual custodian of IP resources. The membership agreement will be between your customer and APNIC.
However when it comes to managing resources of making payments your customer can either do it by themselves as the green box shows, or you can manage their resources, through MyAPNIC or even become the payment agent on behalf of them.
So this option can actually help you to grow your business even if you cannot get IPv4 addresses directly to your account.
IPv4 transfers.
Usually when a member wants to close their account or if they have unused IPv4 space, they contact APNIC and ask us to reclaim those resources, so that they don’t have to pay for it. Once the account gets closed, the resources go back to the recovered pool.
On the other hand, if you check our IPv4 transfer listing page, you can find accounts which wants more IPv4 resources. And you can contact those members through APNIC, and negotiate on transfer conditions with the recipient and transfer the resources, and finally close the account.
Since Bangladesh has quite a big number of accounts, you can actually make use of this page effectively for the benefit of your community.
So please register yourselves in the pre-approval listing page, if you think you may require more IP resources in the future.
At the end of the day, IPv4 is just not enough to cater for the growth of internet. So many devices are getting connected to the internet daily, and the growth is very fast. Therefore, a better option is to start deploying IPv6 as soon as it is possible. Until it becomes feasible it is a good idea to do testing, get knowledge and be ready.
In the next 20 minutes I will give you some IPv4 related updates, show you IPv6 statistics, and introduce few MyAPNIC improvements we recently implemented.
This is taken from Google statistics page. And it shows the percentage of end users who connected to google services or advertisements with IPv6 preferred devices over the years.
As you can see it is an exponential growth. For example, in January 2015, 5.84 % of users connected via IPv6, and it almost doubled within an year….upto 10.41 % in January 2016.
These are encouraging figures for any ISP to think about Ipv6 deployments very soon.
From the global stage, now to have a closer look at our region…
These are country vise statistics for IPv6 traffic. Japan is leading the way, which is not a big surprise I guess…Malaysia has done very well, surpassing any other country in AP region including Singapore, or Australia or New Zealand…
Our these biggest friends China, India Indonesia you can see the figures, and your neighbous nepal and Myanmar has no IPv6 traffic as it seems.
Bangladesh…..any guess ? Its 0.03 percent.
An even closer look at Bangladesh……These are the top 5 ASNs for announcing IPv6 prefixes. BDREN at the top…and we can see Fibre at Home also in the top 5. It is actually good to see research institutions taking the lead.
This shows the number of IPv6 custodians among the Bangladesh membership of 289 members, as of Mid March. For the 168 members who have not taken IPv6 yet, and it they have any doubts about how much they have to pay…..how many documents they need to provide…..and so on….this could be good news.
There are no additional fees as long as you already have IPv4 resources.
Documents you provided for Ipv4 are still valid, therefore no need to provide anything else.
No questions….only few minutes.
To get this free and easy IPv6 block, all you have to do it goto MyAPNIC home page, and look for IPv6 one click promotion. And confirm.
If you have an existing IPv4 assignment, you are automatically eligible for a /48 of IPv6, and if you have an allocation, you get a /32.
APNIC also provides lot of E-learning courses through online webcast, and through face-to-face workshops like the one we had for the last 4 days. So make use of these resources, check our taining calendar, see if any events are happening close to your area, and try to attend to them.
More information about IPv6 such as best practices, success stories, case studies, and latest developments…you can visit our IPv6 Page. There is a huge amount of up to date information.
Another initiative APNIC started in 2015 is technical assistance program. Last year, Philip Smith and Deam Peaberton visited Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Thailand, on member request to discuss their specific issues related to let it be IPv6, network security etc. This is a face-to-face discussion in a more private environment, which allows you to discuss about issue that you don’t want your competitors to know about. So please make use of these resources available to APNIC members…If you want to have any technical assistance at your place, let us know.
Finally, I will give you some previews about MyAPNIC improvements we did earlier this year.
If you login to MyAPNIC recently you would have noticed that it has been re-styled. We tried to highlight more frequently accessed features and make navigation easier.
There are four main updates which were revealed at APNIC 40 in Jakarta, and most of them are ready to use now. These improvements were identified through the member surveys we did earlier in 2015. All four improvments commonly aims at giving you better visibility of your records, let it be whois records or ACCOUNT information.
First, the Reverse DNS page. Now you can see all your domain objects listed under every IP prefix you have in the same page.
If name servers are the same, you can create multiple domains at the same time and update them as well.
In front of each domain object records there is a “test” button to check if the name servers are reachable.
This is a preview of what you will see if you login to MyAPNIC.
The link is under reverse delegations in the Resources Tab. Which will give you the summary and it will show more information about the domain object.
Next improvement is aimed at improving the whois data quality. Everyday we get number of reports about invalid emails, phone numbers listed in whois database. It is the responsibility of the member to keep these information up to date. However, it can be quite a time consuming task especially if you have large number of objects with invalid details. To make it easy, we have added some features as you see in the slide.
The key improvement is that that “search and replace” capability is included under this improvement. You simply find the invalid contact and replace it with either an existing contact or a new one which you can make on the spot. You can see more details about the updated object by going to Advanced update.
When the person who manages an account leaves the organization, we ask them to fill a paper form….sign it….and scan it and send it back. Which is quite old fashioned and can take up to a couple of days before the person is appointed. However with this improvement, we hope to make is much easier and quicker for the members.
New interface shows more information about contact persons such as access privileges, personal e-mails and also provides links to edit contact details and delete unwanted contacts
If you want to add a new contact, you do not have to fill any paper forms and reply to APNIC with scanned forms. – As long as there is at least one contact person already registered.
Now If we click on the Add New Contact button -
It will take you to this page.
1. Select the contact type : either Corporate / Billing or Technical
2. Provide the details of nominated contact
3. Finally details of the authorised person who is appointing the new contact person
Once submitted, APNIC member services will register the nominated persons in respective accounts.
Until now, if you wanted to create an route object with someone else’s ASN it was not possible to do it via MyAPNIC, and you had to contact APNIC helpdesk. However with this improvement you can do it, and the ASN custodian will be informed automatically. So its much quicker. The ASN can be from outside APNIC region as well….From ARIN or RIPE or any other RIR
In order to push our RPKI/ROA campaign forward and to make it easier for the members, now you can create a matching ROA together at the time of route object creation. And if you delete the route object, ROA also gets deleted automatically.
This is a preview of what you will see very soon in MyAPNIC.
You can access the this page through Resources Page, and you will see all your routes with some information such as Origin ASN, ROA availability etc
A different tab will show ALL prefixes announced by your ASNs we well.
At route creation page, by ticking the radio button at the top, you can create the ROA together with Route object. But….you need to have either a valid digital certificate or TOTP enabled.
On submission it will ask you to confirm.
Bangladesh is already leading the way with highest number of “VALID” prefix announcements with 58 accounts having ROA signed. When the route management feature goes LIVE we hope we can see further improvement in this chat.
That ends the main topics which I wanted to cover….
Now, A reminder about the APNIC 2016 Survey. We will send invitations to all registered contacts of APNIC members to take part in this survey. These surveys have a heavy impact on how APNIC plans its road map for the next few years.
We highly recommend that you voice your opinion. Tell us where we need to improve, or how we can do things differently…..or even better tell that APNIC is good
That’s it from me…..Thank you very much. If you have any questions you can ask now.
Ok…then see you all again in September in Dhaka ! And wish you all a very happy Bengali New Year in Advance !!!