APNIC
• RIR for Asia Pacific– IP address allocation and management– Open policy development
• Support for Internet development– Training and education – addressing and
operational topics, IPv6 focus– Meetings including APRICOT– Infrastructure – root servers, monitoring etc– Network analysis and reporting– Liaison, cooperation, representation
The last 10 years of APNIC
• Staff numbers grew from 6 to 59 ×6• Office increased from 218 to 1138 sqm ×5• Membership grew from 191 to 1855 ×9• IPv4 allocs grew from 0.29 /8s to 5.26 ×18• The number of RIRs grew from 3 to 5• The number of root servers in the region grew
from 1 to 36, with APNIC supporting 22
APNIC in 2008• Services
– Service improvements – Fifth member and stakeholder survey (2009)
• Communications– APNIC Meetings, training and eLearning– Communications resources – CMS development– Internet Governance activities
• Technical – Resource certification
• Business– Business Continuity Plan– Staff development
CNNIC273
IDNIC215JPNIC
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KRNIC125
TWNIC63
VNNIC43
Membership (31 Dec 08)
APNIC members: 1,855
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NIR members: 1,097
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TOTAL ECONOMIES
• 2009 - 601 respondents from 44 economies
Section 1 – Members Top 10• A1-22 APNIC should be involved with activities and events of
operator groups, ISP associations, government and educational• A1-9 Reverse DNS services operate at a high level of quality, usability
and reliability• A1-8 APNIC whois database operates at a high level of quality, usability
and reliability• A1-1 The overall services provided by APNIC are satisfactory• A1-24 APNIC should have higher level representation to liaise with
governments and industry across the region• A1-5 The APNIC helpdesk is easy to contact• A1-6 The APNIC helpdesk provides timely and appropriate responses to
enquiries• A1-16 The APNIC website helps me understand the activities of APNIC• A1-14 APNIC communicates useful and relevant information• A1-13 APNIC should establish an open funding mechanism to
support training and education for organisations in need within
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Section 2 – Members Top 10• TA2-1. Research and development activities (for example:
network monitoring and measuring, routability testing)• SA2-4. Support network engineering education in the Asia
Pacific region • SA2-6. Support of IPv6 deployment • SA2-1. Expand training activities in scope, geographical
coverage and online options • CA2-2. Increase the support of the community's efforts to adopt
IPv6• SA2-3. Streamline resource requests and allocation processes• TA2-3. Further development of resource certification to
support better routing security • TA2-6. Expand network monitoring, reporting • TA2-2. Develop web services for automated data exchange with
external systems• TA2-5. Deploy more DNS root servers in the Asia Pacific region
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APNIC on a global stage
• Internet Governance – IGF India– ITU Telecom Asia, Bangkok– OECD Ministerial meeting, Seoul– ICANN meetings
• NRO– Global policy development activities– Cooperation
Challenges for the Future
• IPv4 exhaustion
• IPv6 deployment
• Internet Governance
• Security
• Impact of economic downturn