A overview of APNIC services and new service improvements.

1. Issue Date:
Revision:
APNIC Services
Update 2014
Anna Mulingbayan, Senior Internet Resource Analyst
Yangon, Myanmar
20 November 2014
24 Oct 2014
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2. APNIC’s Vision:
“A global, open,
stable, and
secure Internet
that serves the
entire Asia Pacific
community”
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Serving APNIC Members
Supporting Internet
development in the Asia
Pacific region

3. Overview
• Membership growth statistics
• IPv6 statistics
• IPv4
– Last /8 statistics
– Market transfer statistics
• ASN statistics
• Services update
• Trends and observations
• Training
“Function as the RIR for
the Asia Pacific, in the
service of the community
of Members and others”
“Provide Internet registry
services to the highest
possible standards of
trust, neutrality, and
accuracy”
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4. APNIC Membership
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5000
4500
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
XL
VL
L
M
S
VS
AS
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Statistics as at 31
October

5. IPv6 delegations
5
Cumulative
Delegations
Allocation
Assignment
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
By delegation type
>=31
/32
/43-/47
/48
By size
One-click
Normal
By request type
In 2014
Statistics
as at 31
August
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

6. IPv4 delegations
6
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14
Apr-14
May-14
Jun-14
Jul-14
Aug-14
Sep-14
Oct-14
Recovered pool
103/8
From 103
pool
From
recovered
pool
/24
/23
/22
NIR
New
Existing
By pool By size By Member Statistics as at
31 October

7. Need more IPv4?
• Prop-105: Distribution of returned IPv4 address
– Permits the delegation of an additional /22 of IPv4 addresses to
APNIC account holders
• Referral applications
- If your address pool cannot fulfill your customer’s needs you can
open an APNIC account for your customers
- You can manage the resources on behalf of your customers via
MyAPNIC multiple account management
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8. IPv4 transfers
8
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14
Apr-14
May-14
Jun-14
Jul-14
Aug-14
Sep-14
Oct-14
Inter-RIR
Intra-RIR
Used
Did not use
Using listing service
Used
Remaining
Pre-approval usage Statistics as at 31 October

9. ASN assignments
2 byte
4 byte
9
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14
Apr-14
May-14
Jun-14
Jul-14
Aug-14
Sep-14
Oct-14
4-byte
2-byte
2-byte
4-byte
By type
Rejected
Accepted
4-byte return rate
Statistics as at
31 October
Global ASN use

10. Service enhancements
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IRT object campaign
MyAPNIC
Security

11. What is IRT and why it is important
inetnum: 203.100/16
maint-irt: irt-cert-xx irt: irt-cert-xx
inetnum: 203.100.8/22
inetnum: 203.100.10/24
maint-irt: irt-sitex irt: irt-sitex
$ whois –c 203.100.8/22
inetnum: 203.100/16
...
mnt-irt: irt-cert-xx
$ whois irt-cert-xx
...

12. How to update the IRT
$ whois -t irt
irt: [mandatory] [single] [primary/look-up key]
address: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
phone: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
fax-no: [optional] [multiple] [ ]
e-mail: [mandatory] [multiple] [lookup key]
signature: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
encryption: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
tech-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
auth: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ]
irt-nfy: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key]
notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key]
mnt-by: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key]
changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ]
source: [mandatory] [single] [ ]

13. MyAPNIC
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14. Updated correspondence features
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Request new correspondence and
view existing correspondence
Contact APNIC Executive Council

15. Security
• Security of online payment page has been enhanced
– Invoice retrieval and payment confirmation page secured
• Email has been made secure
– SMTP TLS is now enabled (RFC 3207)
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Protection against passive eavesdropping

16. Trends and observations
• Geolocation issues affecting Members
– Incorrect geolocation information
– No geolocation information
– Website access based on IP location
• Reverse DNS delegation
- How to register?
- How long does it take?
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17. Reverse DNS delegation
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Create
domain object
Register your domain object from
MyAPNIC or via Helpdesk
APNIC NS MyAPNIC: In a few minutes
E-mail: Within 2 hours
Within 4 hours after APNIC FTP
zone is updated
Other RIR
NS
Global NS
Additional time to update global
DNS based on TTL/refresh values

18. Reverse DNS delegation by RIR
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http://www.iana.org/numbers

19. Geolocation
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Geoloc attribute
introduced in July 2013
to provide hints to geo-service
providers
Relatively new feature
and not widely used by
all Member and geo-service
providers
Ensure your APNIC
Whois registration is up-to-
date
Update your IP
information in third party
GEOIP databases such
as MaxMind, IP2
location
For records maintained
by APNIC:
• We do not set the
geoloc attributes
• We record your
economy of
registration
www.apnic.net/geolocation

20. APNIC Training in 2013
Courses
20 Classroom
24 Online
Professionals
1,826 trained
Video archives
63 videos
135,516 views
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21. APNIC eLearning
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More than 20
courses to
choose from
The latest on
IPv6 deployment,
Routing and
Network Security
Real-time
interaction
training.apnic.net

22. APNIC’s Vision:
“A global, open,
stable, and
secure Internet
that serves the
entire Asia Pacific
community”
22
Serving APNIC Members
Supporting Internet
development in the Asia
Pacific region

23. Community Development
Technical Assistance
Projects in Bhutan,
Laos, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
MoU with ICANN for L-root
servers in the Asia
Pacific
33 Fellowships
supported for APRICOT
2014 & APNIC 38
New Youth Fellowship
Program for APNIC 38 –
2 Fellows
SANOG
SANOG
L-root MoU signing
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24. ISIF Asia Awards and Grants
Supporting technical
innovation for socio-economic
development in
the Asia Pacific
Awards Grants Economies
5 from 93
12 from 139
applications
applications
Cook Islands, Kiribati, New Zealand, Tuvalu, India,
Australia/Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Micronesia,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Vanuatu
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25. About ISIF Asia
Grants
• Competitive selection process
• Up to AUD $30,000 / 3-12
months
• Aligned with funding
categories
• Reporting required
• Access to additional capacity
building funds
• Supporting regional
collaboration
• Scale-up / replication of
successful projects
www.isif.asia/grant
Awards
• Competitive selection process
• Online voting
• Cash prize AUD $ 3,000 + IGF
travel + 1 year networking
support
• Aligned with funding
categories
• No reporting required
• Higher media exposure
• Access to additional capacity
building funds
www.isif.asia/award
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26. You’re invited!
APRICOT 2015: Fukuoka, Japan,
24 Feb-6 Mar 2015
2015.apricot.net
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27. 27
blog.apnic.net

28. THANK YOU
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www.twitter.com/apnic
www.youtube.com/apnicmultimedia
www.flickr.com/apnic
www.weibo.com/APNICrir
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