1. Issue Date:
Revision:
10/11/2015
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Dinesh Bakthavatchalam
dinesh@apnic.net
APNIC Service
Improvements 2015

2. Agenda
• Whois data quality improvement
• What’s new in MyAPNIC
• New APNIC labs tool
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3. Whois data quality
improvement

4. Why is whois data quality important?
• Supports the security and operation of the Internet
• Fulfills the goals of addressing policy
• Networking trouble shooting and abuse
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5. What’s on APNIC’s Services Roadmap
• Unused whois objects cleanup
• Promoting IRT (Incident Response Team) object
• Simpler whois registration guide
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6. Unused whois objects clean-up
• Deletion of unreferenced person and role objects that are
over 12 months old
• Script runs on the 15th of each month to delete
unreferenced objects
• Deleted objects will be backed up
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7. Promote IRT object
• Incident Response Team
– Designated contacts for network abuse reporting
• Policy implemented 8 Nov 2010
– Mandatory reference for inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num
– Required for all objects created or updated
• However, not all Members created their IRT object
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8. Creating IRT for members
• Nearly 300 Members without IRT object
• 284 IRT objects created using their existing contact
information
• Members requested to verify their IRT objects
• 284 IRT objects were referenced to 1552 resource objects
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9. New “remarks” for resource objects
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remarks: To report network abuse, please contact mnt-irt
remarks: For troubleshooting, please contact tech-c and admin-c
remarks: Report invalid contact via www.apnic.net/invalidcontact
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10. What is next?
• A simple and clear whois guide is on its way
• Improved MyAPNIC features to simplify whois updates
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11. What can you do to help?
• Updating resource usage in the whois database
• Keeping whois contacts up to date
• Maintaining your APNIC account contacts
• Reporting any invalid whois contacts to APNIC
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12. What’s new in MyAPNIC?

13. APNIC Survey
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May 2015 June 2015 July 2015
Brainstorming
sessions
Continuous
improvements
15 July – Survey
launched
4 August – Survey
completed

14. How did it go?
Total Responses Completed responses Completion rate
708 546 77%
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15. What’s important?
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40.60%
36% 36%
29.70%
28%
21.20%
19.60%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
Simplified
Whois update
feature to
manage Whois
objects
Single page to
manage
Reverse DNS
delegation
Tool to check
ASN in use
Step-by-step
instructional
videos
A customizable
MyAPNIC
homepage
Requesting
quotes for
invoices
Tools to
manage
Resource
Certification
Priority

16. 2016 Services Roadmap
• Authorized contact management
• Reverse DNS management
• Whois records management
• Route and ROA management
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17. Success story
• May 2015: APNIC Outreach in
Bangladesh
– 13 organizations visited
– Onsite support to create ROA objects
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561 valid
prefixes (24%)
http://rpki.surfnet.nl/bd.html

18. World leaderboard
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http://rpki.surfnet.nl/country.html
As of 10 June 2015

19. Story in South Asia
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Resource Certification enabled Members
As at 26 July 2015
22.03%
40.00%
11.51%
53.33%
13.16%
15.31%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Pakistan

20. Create your ROA now!
• Almost 75% of the prefixes without ROAs
• Ease of ROA creation with MyAPNIC improvements
• Helpdesk is only a skype call away (ID: apnic-helpdesk)
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21. One last update from
APNIC Labs

22. VizAS
• Visualization of BGP peering relationships
• Both IPv4 and IPv6
• Sources of data:
– University of Oregon’s Route View Project
– Number Resource Organization (NRO)
– RIR’s registry (RDAP)
• Analyze the network topology and grow the Internet
infrastructure
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23. Explanation
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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24. Explanation
ASNs with more
downstreams
are displayed
closer to the
centre
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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25. Explanation
Lowest ASN shown
at the top, followed
by higher ASNs in a
clockwise direction
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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26. Explanation
Darker nodes/path
means there are more IP
addresses involved in
that route
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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27. Visual representation of ASN peers in
Bangladesh
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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28. Questions?
Thank you
dinesh@apnic.net
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