The document provides an update on APNIC services. It summarizes APNIC's vision of an open, stable, and secure Internet for Asia Pacific and its mission to function as the regional internet registry and support community development. Key updates include continued growth in membership, IPv6 adoption, and internet number resources. Improvements to registration services and tools are noted. Activities to facilitate training and infrastructure development are reviewed, along with collaboration on measurement and analysis through APNIC Labs.

1. Issue Date:
Revision:
APNIC Services Update
2014
Vivek Nigam
bdNOG1
15 May 2014
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2. APNIC’s Vision:
“A global, open,
stable, and
secure Internet
that serves the
entire Asia Pacific
community”
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Serving APNIC Members
Supporting Internet development
in the Asia Pacific region
Collaborating with the Internet
community

3. APNIC’s Mission
• Function as the RIR for the Asia Pacific, in the service of the
community of Members and others
• Provide Internet registry services to the highest possible
standards of trust, neutrality, and accuracy
• Provide information, training, and supporting services to
assist the community in building and managing the Internet
• Support critical Internet infrastructure to assist in creating and
maintaining a robust Internet environment
• Provide leadership and advocacy in support of its vision and
the community
• Facilitate regional Internet development as needed throughout
the APNIC community
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4. Serving APNIC
Members
• Membership growth statistics
• IPv6 statistics
• IPv4
– Last /8 statistics
– Market transfer statistics
• ASN statistics
• Services update
– Whois
– MyAPNIC updates
“Function as the RIR for
the Asia Pacific, in the
service of the community
of Members and others”
“Provide Internet registry
services to the highest
possible standards of
trust, neutrality, and
accuracy”
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5. Membership Growth
0
500
1000
1500
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2500
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3500
4000
4500
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
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VL
L
M
S
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AS
Date
Members
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6. Membership Growth in Bangladesh
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
6
Members
Date As at 20 May 2014

7. IPv6 Delegations by Year
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Numberofdelegations
7
Date

8. IPv4 Last /8 Delegations
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Apr-11
May-11
Jun-11
Jul-11
Aug-11
Sep-11
Oct-11
Nov-11
Dec-11
Jan-12
Feb-12
Mar-12
Apr-12
May-12
Jun-12
Jul-12
Aug-12
Sep-12
Oct-12
Nov-12
Dec-12
Jan-13
Feb-13
Mar-13
Apr-13
May-13
Jun-13
Jul-13
Aug-13
Sep-13
Oct-13
Nov-13
Dec-13
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14
Apr-14
Delegations
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As at 30 April 2014Date

9. IPv4 Market Transfers
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Nov-10
Dec-10
Jan-11
Feb-11
Mar-11
Apr-11
May-11
Jun-11
Jul-11
Aug-11
Sep-11
Oct-11
Nov-11
Dec-11
Jan-12
Feb-12
Mar-12
Apr-12
May-12
Jun-12
Jul-12
Aug-12
Sep-12
Oct-12
Nov-12
Dec-12
Jan-13
Feb-13
Mar-13
Apr-13
May-13
Jun-13
Jul-13
Aug-13
Sep-13
Oct-13
Nov-13
Dec-13
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14
Apr-14
Inter-RIR
Transfers
Numberoftransfers
9
As at 30 April 2014Date

10. Cumulative ASN Delegations
0.00
1,000.00
2,000.00
3,000.00
4,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
7,000.00
8,000.00
9,000.00
10,000.00
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
4-byte
2-byte
Delegations
10
Date

11. Whois Services Improvements
• Geoloc and language
information
– Associate your IP registration
with geolocation and language
• Whowas information
– Previous registration available
for IP addresses still currently
registered
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Geoloc and language attribute

12. MyAPNIC Improvements
• Referral application
– Allows existing Members to apply
for Internet number resources on
behalf of their customers
• Bulk update feature for Incidence
Response Team (IRT)
– Bulk update your assignments with
your IRT object
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13. Supporting Internet
development in the Asia
Pacific region
• Policy development
• IPv6 support
• Training
• APNIC Events
• Infrastructure capacity building
• Information Society Innovation
Fund (ISIF Asia)
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“Provide information,
training, and supporting
services to assist the
community in building and
managing the Internet”
“Support critical Internet
infrastructure to assist in
creating and maintaining a
robust Internet
environment”
“Facilitate regional Internet
development as needed
throughout the APNIC
community”

14. IPv6 Support
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www.apnic.net/ipv6
• ASEAN ICT SMEs Conference, Hanoi
• IPv6 Event by ISOC HK, Hong Kong
• ICANN 49, IPv6 Roundtable, Singapore
• Global IPv6 and Next Generation Summit 2014,
Beijing
• APEC TEL 49
Outreach
• Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force
• APNIC continues to provide Secretariat services
• Met at APNIC 36 and APRICOT 2014/APNIC 37
APIPv6TF
• White paper published
• www.apnic.net/ipv6-decision-makers
IPv6 for Decision
Makers

15. Training
• Continuing focus on
IPv6 deploymentIPv6
• Extensive exercises
in virtual and
physical training labs
Hands-on
• Every Wednesday is
IPv6 day; 179 hours
training provided
eLearning
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16. APNIC Events
• APNIC 36: Xi’an, China
– Total on-site delegates: 251
– Total remote participants: 409
• APRICOT 2014/APNIC 37:
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
– Total on-site delegates: 466
– Total remote participants: 262
• NEW: APNIC Regional Meetings
(ARM)
– Free one-day events
– ARM 1 with MyNOG 3 in Kuala
Lumpur on 29 November 2013
– ARM 2 - in conjunction with
Internet20PH on 4 April 2014 in
Manila
– ARM 3 – with bdNOG on 23-24 May
in Dhaka
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17. Infrastructure Capacity Building
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Provided training and
equipment to help establish
the Vanuatu IXP
Helped establish an I-Root
server instance in Port Vila,
Vanuatu
IXP Workshop held in
Bangkok, Thailand -
working towards
establishing the country’s
first IXP
APNIC supported the
establishment of bdNOG
and BTNOG, new
network operators
groups in Bangladesh
and Bhutan

18. Collaborating with the
Internet Community
• APNIC in the Internet ecosystem
• APNIC Labs
“Provide leadership and
advocacy in support of
APNIC’s vision and the
community”
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20. APNIC Labs
• Measurement activities
– IPv6 readiness by economy and ISP;
IPv6 performance
– Repurposed IPv6 measurement for
DNSSEC validation by economy and
ISP
– Tracking growth of routing table in
IPv4 and IPv6
– RPKI use across the Internet
• Long-term investigation exercise
into evolving nature of dark traffic in
both IPv4 and IPv6
• Internet number resource reporting
and analysis
labs.apnic.net
blabs.apnic.net
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21. THANK YOU
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