APNIC is improving whois data quality and MyAPNIC features. Whois clean-up removes unused objects over 12 months old. Promoting Incident Response Team objects is important for network security and abuse reporting. MyAPNIC improvements focus on easier whois and reverse DNS management based on user survey feedback. A new visualization tool called VizAS maps BGP peering relationships to analyze network topology.

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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