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APNIC Services Update 2014

Vivek Nigam

Colombo, Sri Lanka

27 October 2014

24 Oct 2014

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Member Services Team

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Multi-Lingual: Multi-skilled:

- Japanese - Database- Hindi - Networking- Cantonese - Design- Mandarin - Customer service- Tamiil - Programming- Sinhalese - Projects

Member Services Team

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We support APNIC Members• General queries on APNIC services &

procedures• Account management and payment• Whois updates & troubleshooting• Reverse DNS • MyAPNIC support

The team• Operates 9:00 to 21:00

(UTC +10)• Are multilingual• Contactable via online

chat, email & phone

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APNIC’s Vision:

“A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community”

Serving APNIC Members

Supporting Internet development in the Asia

Pacific region

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Overview

• Membership growth statistics

• IPv6 statistics

• IPv4– Last /8 statistics– Market transfer statistics

• ASN statistics

• Services update

• Trends and observations

“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”

APNIC Membership

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Membership growth in Sri LankaM

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Date As at 20 May 2014

IPv6 delegations

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AllocationAssignment

By delegation type

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By request type

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Statistics as at 31 August

IPv4 delegations

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Recovered Pool103/8

From 103 pool

From recov-ered pool

/24/23/22

NIRNewExisting

By pool By size By MemberStatistics as at 31 August

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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

IPv4 transfers

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Jan

-14

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Inter-RIRIntra-RIR

UsedDid not use

Using listing service

UsedRemaining

Pre-approval usage Statistics as at 31 August

ASN assignments

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Jan

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4-byte2-byte

2-byte

4-byte

By type

Rejected

Accepted

4-byte return rateStatistics as at 31 August

2 byte4 byte

Global ASN use

Service improvements

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IRT object campaign

MyAPNIC

Security

IRT object campaign

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November, 2010

IRT object policy implemented to improve network abuse contact information in the Whois database

Stage 1: To encourage adoption of this policy

Stage 2: Sent reminders to members who have not registered any IRT object

2nd Qtr 2013

2nd Qtr 2014

IRT campaign outcome

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Before the campaign After 1st Stage After 2nd Stage30

40

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90

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8587

% of accounts that have IRT created and referenced

MyAPNIC

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Updated correspondence features

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Request new correspondence and view existing correspondence

Contact APNIC Executive Council

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

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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Reverse DNS delegation

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Create domain object

Register your domain object from MyAPNIC or via Helpdesk

Within 4 hours after APNIC FTPzone is updated

Other RIR NS

Global NSAdditional time to update globalDNS based on TTL/refresh values

APNIC NS MyAPNIC: In a few minutesE-mail: Within 2 hours

Reverse DNS delegation by RIR

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http://www.iana.org/numbers

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-dateUpdate your IP information in third party GEOIP databases such as MaxMind, IP2 location

www.apnic.net/geolocation

For records maintained by APNIC: • We do not set the

geoloc attributes• We record your

economy of registration

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APNIC’s Vision:

“A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community”

Serving APNIC Members

Supporting Internet development in the Asia

Pacific region

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Community Development

Engineering 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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Supporting technical innovation for socio-economic development

in the Asia Pacific

Call for 2015 Grants closes 31 October 2014

ISIF Asia Awards and Grants

Awards Grants Economies

5 from 93 applications

12 from 139 applications

Cook Islands, Kiribati, New Zealand, Tuvalu, India, Australia/Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Micronesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Vanuatu

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About ISIF AsiaGrants

• 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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ISIF information

www.facebook.com/ISIF.asia

@ISIF_Asia

www.youtube.com/user/TheISIFGrantsAwards

http://gplusme.at/ISIFAsia

For sponsorship and partnership opportunities: www.isif.asia/join_us

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You’re invited!

APRICOT 2015: Fukuoka, Japan, 24 Feb-6 Mar 2015

2015.apricot.net

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