APNIC EC Report, by Maemura Akinori. A presentation given at APRICOT 2016’s APNIC AGM (2) session on 26 February 2016.

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APNIC Executive Council Report
APNIC 41
26 February 2016

2. Current APNIC EC members
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3. Functions of the APNIC EC
• Represent the interests of Members in the governance of
APNIC
• Oversight of APNIC’s activities
• Consider broad Internet policy issues for APNIC’s strategic
direction
• Set membership fees
• Endorse the policy consensus towards implementation
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4. APNIC EC Meetings
• The EC meets four times a year
• EC meetings since APNIC 39 AGM
– 14 June 2015 (held in conjunction with ARM & PHNOG Manila)
– 7 September 2015 (APNIC 40, Jakarta)
– 1-2 December 2015 (held in conjunction with ARM & PACNOG 18
Guam)
– 22 February 2016 (APNIC 41, Auckland)
• All meeting minutes and attendance record are on APNIC
website:
– http://www.apnic.net/ec
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5. APNIC EC Meetings (cont)
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EC Members
28/02/2015
02/03/2015
14/06/2015 07/09/2015 02/12/15 22/02/16
Maemura Akinori ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Che-Hoo Cheng ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Kenny Huang ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
James Spenceley ✔ - - ✔ ✔
Gaurab Raj
Upadhaya
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Ma Yan ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Wendy Zhao ✔ N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jessica Shen N/A ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Paul Wilson ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

6. Finances
• Largest ever membership growth in 2015
• 5,268 Members at the end of December 2015
• APNIC activity codes for budgeting and expense reporting
implemented
• APNIC’s “mutuality” status for tax purposes was confirmed
by the Australian Taxation Office until June 2017
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7. Strategic Plan for APNIC: 2016-2019
• Full-day strategic planning workshop on 1 December 2015
• The EC resolved to adopt the strategic plan for 2016-2019
• Five strategic goals set:
– Deliver advanced number registry and Member information services
– Strengthen Core Technical Focus (such as IPv6, RPKI, DNSSEC) and
engage community to advance adoption and deployment
– Sustainably support AP Internet infrastructure and human capacity
development
– Engage our community to strengthen open, multistakeholder, bottom-up and
transparent policy development processes and Internet governance model
– Maintain a strong organization to carry out APNIC’s mission
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8. 2016 APNIC Survey
• Conducting through 2016
• APNIC needs to hear from its Members and stakeholders
• Help guide APNIC’s long-term strategies and priorities
• The survey will run focus groups, followed by an online
survey conducted by independent consultants
• Survey Report to be presented to Members at APNIC 42 in
October 2016
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9. IANA Review Committee
• The EC resolved to provisionally appoint the two
community-elected NRO Number Council Members as
APNIC’s representatives to the IANA Numbering Services
Review Committee, with their term expiring at the end of
2016, and further appoint an APNIC staff member
designated by the Director-General as the third, non-voting
member of the Review Committee
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10. IANA Review Committee (cont)
• Role and responsibilities of RC members:
– https://www.nro.net/review-committee-charter-final
• This initial appointment would stand until 31 December
2016, but is then likely to be renewed on an annual basis
• APNIC’s composition of the Review Committee:
– Dr Ajay Kumar (NRO NC)
– Tomohiro Fujisaki (NRO NC)
– George Kuo (APNIC staff)
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11. APNIC policy endorsement
• The EC reviewed and resolved to endorse two policy
proposals that received consensus at APNIC 40:
– prop-113: Modification in the IPv4 eligibility criteria
– prop-114: Modification in the ASN eligibility criteria
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12. RPKI for Historical Resource Maintenance
Account holders
• The EC resolved to provide RPKI services to Historical
Resource Maintenance account holders for no additional
fee if they have a standard membership account with
APNIC
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13. APNIC NIR Membership options analysis
• On 27 February 2012, EC resolved to impose a moratorium
on accepting new NIR applications while EC evaluates
future of NIR program
• KPMG is undertaking NIR framework analysis focusing on:
- the criteria for recognition of new NIRs
- how to strengthen the NIR model for the benefit of the community
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14. APNIC NIR Membership options analysis
(cont)
• Having completed some background analysis, KPMG will
develop a list of the key questions & issues for EC
consideration
• The EC will then provide guidance regarding consultation
across the APNIC community, and the development of any
options for consideration
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15. APNIC Foundation
• The EC resolved to incorporate APNIC Foundation in Hong
Kong
• The APNIC Foundation supports Internet development
throughout the Asia Pacific region, though training,
education, human capacity building and related projects
and activities, to be delivered by APNIC and its partner
organizations
• More details to follow
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16. Member feedback
• We welcome comments, suggestions and questions from
Members, stakeholders and all others with an interest in
APNIC
– EC submission feature on MyAPNIC
– Email: exec-sec@apnic.net
– Face-to-face during APNIC conferences
– Meet the EC events
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QUESTIONS?