Presentation by Dr. Govind at APRICOT 2018 on Wednesday, 28 February 2018.

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Cooperation SIG
APNIC Annual General Meeting
28 February 2018
Dr Govind - Chair
Billy MH Cheon – Co-Chair

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Co-Chair Nominees
• Dr Rajesh Ramachandran
• Billy MH Cheon
• Bikram Shrestha
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Co-Chair Election
• Bikram Shrestha was elected as Co-Chair for 2 year term.
• On behalf of the community, thanks to Billy MH Cheon for
his contribution and service as Cooperation SIG Co-Chair.
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Agenda
Whois Accuracy : Present Status and its Challenges
• Introduction to Whois - Craig Ng , APNIC
• Proactive engagement initiatives between RIRs and LEAs –
Richard Leaning, RIPE NCC
• Contribution about importance of WHOIS Accuracy - Nabinda
Aryal, Nepal Police
• GAC, the PSWG and LEAs, - Alice Munya , GAC Rep
• Network operators use of Whois - Anurag Bhatia, HE
• Open MIC - Q&A
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Craig Ng
• Evolution of Whois over the years
• IP addresses gaining value as a true record of
custodianship of IP resources for due diligence
• Privacy vs accountability- Need balance
• Does LEA require registration data up to end-user level or
happy with data one step removed from end-user
• Contractual agreement rather than legal
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Richard Leaning
• RIPE NCC and RIPE community engaging LEAs in a
productive manner with understanding each other’s
requirements
• Expectations on WHOIS database and proactive
engagement initiatives between RIRs and LEAs
• Training, education, capacity building
• Signed MoU with Europol, Member of Interpol, following
PSWG discussions
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Nabinda Aryal
• Whois is one of the starting point of investigations
• Long delay in investigation process due to inaccurate data
and processes MLATs, ILOR,LOR etc
• CGNAT deployment added level of complexity
• Need for a global co-ordination with RIRs
• Public safety is foremost and require cooperation with all
• Seeking industry assistance, collaboration
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Alice Munya
• Creation of Public Safety Working Group(PSWG) in ICANN
to engage with LEA and improve Whois accuracy
• PSWG members are representing law enforcement
interests in the Working Group (access and accuracy of
registration data in particular)
• GAC outreach and capacity building
• Evolving next generation of registration process
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Anurag Bhatia
• Whois from operator’s and peering perspective
• Incentivising the operators, end users etc to update Whois
• To send an e-mail every year to ISPs /operators/end users
validating the Whois
• CGNATs deployed at very significant scale and it's
becoming difficult to map end user unless deploy IPv6
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Summary
• Whois database is a critical link for any kind of
investigations
• Annual contact system of upgrading the database
• Need to work together with all stakeholders
• Co-ordination across different jurisdictions/RIRs
• Training, education and capacity building
• Issue of privacy ,accountability and data protection with the
upcoming GDPR
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Cooperation SIG Panel
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