APNIC Service Team Lead Anna Mulingbayan gives an introduction to APNIC at the PCTA Convention 2023, held in Boracay, Philippines from 10 to 14 April 2023.

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APNIC Introduction
Anna Mulingbayan
Team Lead, SEA Subregion
APNIC Services Team

2. Overview
• Introduction to APNIC
• APNIC Core Services

3. APNIC is one of the five RIRs
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4. What are registries
• Organizations running registry services
⎯ With authority for registration of some ‘public resource’
• Public databases describing status of resources
⎯ Land titles
⎯ Vehicle registrations
⎯ Domain Names
⎯ Internet Number Resources (INRs) – IPv4, IPv6, ASNs
• Internet address registries
⎯ RIRs, NIRs, LIRs

5. About APNIC
"A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community"
Asia Pacific
Network
Information Centre
One of the five
Regional Internet
Registries (RIRs)
Not for profit
operations
Membership based
organisation
Neutral

6. APNIC Eco System
• At the very end of a network there is an Internet
user
• Users get their Internet connection from access
providers, fixed or wireless
• There are also many enabling organizations that
help the Internet to grow seamlessly as a single,
global, interoperable network: governments and
regulators, industry associations, network
operator groups, standards bodies, name
registries, and the number registries.
• APNIC is one of the five Regional Internet
Registries (RIRs) that distribute and manage
Internet number resources in the Asia Pacific
region.
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7. Services we provide
Resource
Delegations
IPv4, IPv6, AS number
delegations
Resource
Transfers
Due to merger/acquisitions,
IPv4 & ASN transfers
Whois
Database/RDAP
Accurate Whois registrations,
Internet Routing Registry
RPKI
Secure routing, also known
as Resource Certification
Reverse DNS
APNIC manages reverse
DNS for IPv4 and IPv6

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Membership and resource application

9. www.apnic.net/apply
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10. New Application Form
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11. Internet resource type
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Allocation
• Assignment
• Internet Exchange Point (IXP)
• Critical infrastructure
• Experimental
• ASN
• Multihomed, or
• Interconnect with another ASN
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12. I have received internet resources
from APNIC.
What’s next?
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13. RPKI: ROA
• ROA (Route Origin Authorization) is a digitally signed,
cryptographic object which is generated by the Resource
Certification service.
• What’s contained in a ROA?
⎯ The AS number you have authorized
⎯ The prefix that is being originated from it
⎯ The most specific prefix (maximum length) that the AS may
announce

14. What is RPKI?
• Robust security framework for verifying the association
between resource holders and their Internet resources
• Can help:
⎯ Prevent route hijacks/mis-origination/misconfiguration

15. MyAPNIC
MyAPNIC is a
secure online portal
for APNIC account
holders to manage
Internet number
resources, update
contact information,
use RPKI and so
forth

16. RPKI deployment
1. Create ROAs
2. Implement Route Origin
Validation (ROV)
3. Drop invalids
• Log-in to https://myapnic.net
• Click Resource Manager>RPKI to
check if RPKI engine is enabled
• Go to Route Management to
create/manage ROAs

17. Resource Certification
• Contact permissions required for Resource Certification
• Must have Two-Factor Authentication enabled to use Resource
Certification feature in MyAPNIC
⎯ Corporate and Technical Contacts by default have ‘update’ privilege

18. ROA coverage – Asia
Source: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/roa/XD
35%

19. ROA coverage - Oceania
Source: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/roa/XF
80%

20. IPv4 Scarcity Increases
• Based on APNIC recent member survey:
⎯ The top IPv4 availability challenges were cost
(30%)
⎯ Finding IPv4 addresses in the market (27%)
⎯ We are now sitting at only 3% available IPv4
addresses
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21. IPv4 Exhaustion
• If member needs more than a /23 IPv4
• Consider finding a source for an IPv4 transfer (section 8 of the IPv4
address policy)
• APNIC Members who can justify a need for additional IPv4 space
can receive unused address space from within the region or from
other RIRs, which has a similar needs-based transfer policy.
• Anyone may subscribe to the APNIC transfers mailing list, which
was created to provide a forum for IPv4 transfer discussions.
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Questions?