APNIC 28 Member Meeting Minutes

Chair:

Akinori Maemura, Chair, Executive Council of APNIC.

Agenda:

1. Welcome

Akinori Maemura, Chair of the APNIC EC, welcomed the Members to the AMM. Maemura-San continues to be the Chair for the AMM as per the APNIC By-Laws.

2. APNIC DG report

Paul Wilson started by emphasizing that the meeting is open to everyone and everyone's participation is encouraged. As well as noting IPv4 exhaustion, Paul also highlighted the increasing importance of Internet security, Internet governance and related activities, and the roles that APNIC has regarding these. He also noted the continuing focus on the priorities of the 2009 APNIC Member and Stakeholder survey, particularly with regard to the allocation of APNIC resources in different areas and IPv6 deployment activities. He commented that ensuring increased awareness of IPv6 deployment is well underway including government liaison. Paul also introduced a survey on the technical availability of IPv6.

Paul noted the use of certificates for routing security and APNIC's and IANA's active involvement in DNSSEC deployment.

With regard to Internet Governance, Paul commented that the RIRs are working closely together on follow-up activities that have come out of the IGF and related meetings. He noted that APNIC has become active in APEC-TEL and will be attending the upcoming UNESCO and the CTO meetings. He mentioned that APNIC also drafted a comprehensive response to an ITU survey regarding IP address deployment, and in coordination with the NRO, is making a concerted effort to ensure that the role of the RIRs are well understood within the ITU domain. Similarly, he noted NRO communication activities regarding Internet governance are accelerating, particularly around the point at which IANA's free poll of unallocated resources reaches ten per cent.

3. Services Area report

The highlight for 2009 has been the growth in membership to over 2000 Members. July was the largest month on record for new membership applications and approvals mainly due to membership applications from non-traditional membership areas such as content providers and corporations. Helpdesk enquiries now average about 1400 per month, which is a 55% growth from 2008.

In terms of address space allocations, combined IPv4, IPv6, and AS number allocations are now averaging about 105 per month, a slight increase from 2008, indicating subdued IPv4 requests even with upcoming IPv4 address depletion.

In response to "Streamlining resource requests and allocation processes" from the Membership survey, MyAPNIC now allows Members to request initial resources on membership allocation following an easy step-by-step guide and the ability to request subsequent resources. MyAPNIC also helps Members automatically calculate past utilizations.

In response to improving routing security from the survey, APNIC continues to refine and expand Resource Certification services for MyAPNIC. Likewise, with regard to root server deployment, penetration of root servers in the APNIC region is very healthy. APNIC are also deploying Test Traffic Measurement (TTM) devices at root server locations.

Sanjaya noted the trialing of SMS and web polling to enhance interaction with APNIC Members.

4.Technical Area report

In response to the Membership survey, Research and Development activities include coordination with other RIRs on global Resource Certification issues, DNSSEC deployment, and anycast deployment. With the 'Day in the Life" (DITL) project, APNIC provided 478 gigabytes of data on the DNS packetflows, providing us with a good idea of what's happening in the Internet in general.

In terms of automated data exchange, APNIC will be providing a security channel for updating reverse delegation. Also, increasing redundancy of networks ensuring core systems remain available, is a major initiative for APNIC, as is the three-phase program to deploy DNSSEC.

5. Communications Area report

In response to the Membership survey, APNIC is working hard with partners across the region to expand accessibility to training, including attaining expert speakers. E-learning is a major initiative which was introduced at APNIC 27 with self-paced learning modules a recent innovation. Building capacity in developing economies is also an important activity for the training team, with training sessions being held in economies for the first time, an important component.

The new APNIC website encompasses all the changes the members felt were important, and includes revamped Training, Statistics, and Services sections. There is also a new IPv6 section.

APNIC has been working closely with governments and other institutions on how IPv6 works and expanding IPv6-related activities across the region. Similarly, we have signed MoUs with a number of organizations to enhance various activities that APNIC is undertaking.

6. Business Area report

Within the Finance and Administration area, a significant amount of work has been done on the new fee schedule, supporting work done by KPMG. With the current economic issues, APNIC extensively reforecast its finances to ensure that the 2009 budget was maintained.

In the Human Resources area, a new performance management system was implemented. There has been a big improvement on ensuring staff have regular performance appraisals and that their training needs are identified. EcoAPNIC has been reinvigorated allowing staff to get together to discuss broader issues affecting the environment.

With regard to commercial management, key areas that lacked redundancy, such as payroll have been improved and we are in the process of developing an operational plan to take APNIC into the next phase of its evolution.

7. Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF)

The DG gave a report explaining what ISIF is and why APNIC is participating in it. Supporting research that assists with the development of the Internet is a priority for APNIC. In 2008, 11 projects were awarded grants to the value of USD 322,000. Approximately 50% of that funding has been allocated with the first technical and financial reports being received and reviewed by the partners. For the 2010 year, 207 applications from 24 different economies were received and are currently being reviewed.

8. EC Treasurer's report

As at 30 June 2009, the reported surplus is AUD 218,000 with expenditure being AUD 5.4m and revenue, AUD 5.7m. Membership has grown to 2000 as at June 30 2009.

The expected surplus is approximately AUD 19,000 with projected expenditure 3.3% below budget and projected revenue about 3.4% below budget.

With regard to the fee structure report, Kuo Wei Wu gave a brief history of the financial status of APNIC and the fees structure up until now. He noted that getting to the current fee structure was a long process with 11 comments being received. He also noted that with the new fee structure, APNIC would try to limit the increase to expenditure by 5% per year instead of the usual 10% per year.

In terms of the processes involved for invoicing and payment of the fees, when the new fee structure is implemented, Paul Wilson clarified that the Membership fee is payable on an annual basis on the renewal date for the Member (which could happen at any time during the year).

Kuo-Wei Wu responded to a question from Izumi Okutani and confirmed that historical address space will also be included in the fees calculation, including that held by the NIRs.

9. NRO NC election procedure

Every year there is an election for a candidate to sit for the next two years on the NRO Number Council (also the ASO Address Council). This year's candidate will sit from the end of 2009 to the end of 2011. Onsite and online voting was available. Online voting was available through MyAPNIC on the basis of one vote per member, whereas, onsite voting was available to all registered people attending the APNIC Member Meeting. Two candidates gave brief nomination speeches.

10. MoU signing

An MoU was signed with CNNIC.

11. EC report

  • Presenter: Akinori Maemura, Chairman, EC
  • Transcript

Akinori Maemura, the Chair of the EC gave a brief summary of the EC activities. A voting BoF was held on Tuesday, 25 August 2009, with the consensus being to set up a mailing list to discuss issues surrounding the voting structure.

With regard to policies, the EC endorsed Prop-69, but did not endorse Prop-50, which was again discussed at APNIC 28 and reached provisional consensus.

12. Number Resource Organization (NRO) Report

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) is the vehicle through which the RIRs undertake mutual cooperative and representative activities. Current office holders include: Adiel Akplogan, AfriNIC as Chair; Axel Pawlik, RIPE NCC as Secretary; and Raul Echeberria, LACNIC as Treasurer.

The NRO has renewed its agreement with ICANN and in 2009 is expected to make a total contribution of USD 823,000.

As well as actively participating in IGF events, the NRO also cooperates with international organizations such as the ITU and OECD, in particular the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC).

At the recent NRO retreat, the EC agreed to create a new external-facing coordination group - the Public Affairs Coordination Group (PCG). They also decided on permanent distribution of some NRO functions and agreed on limiting two-byte ASN assignments from IANA to two blocks per RIR per new request.

13. RIR reports

AfriNIC's current operating budget is USD 1.8m with 15 staff. Membership has grown from 200 members in 2005 to 560 now. AfriNIC are currently organizing a regional West African Internet Governance Forum, setting up redundancy plans for infrastructure, and working with RIPE NCC on setting up root servers on the continent. AfriNIC has provided financial and administrative support to the AfTLD and AFNOG and are also planning IPv6 training and workshops with various African networks and universities.

ARIN recently sent out certified letters to 15,000 organizations notifying them of IPv4 run-out and the need to deploy IPv6. It also outlined that all IPv4 requests must be attested to by an officer of the organization concerned. Similarly, all registered Point of Contacts (PoCs) with direct resources were emailed to ensure that accurate contact information for address space held was sent to ARIN. ARIN is also providing whois services for legacy address holders and is increasing their focus on revoked resources. They are involved in various outreach programs and have recently launched ARIN online, an online portal allowing members to log in and make requests. ARIN currently has 10 policy proposals, many of them dealing with the last /8's that ARIN has.

Membership is continuing to grow and staff has increased to 21. A new Policy Development Process has been in place since 2008, which has expedited the process, and two new Co-Chairs have been appointed. A new project that LACNIC is promoting is the AMPARO project that focuses on training, including IPv6, and computer security incident response teams within the LACNIC region. The FRIDA program is proving to be very successful and a new call for ICT research projects closes on 5 October 2009. Also a proven success is the RAICES project which is a project for the installation of root servers in the LACNIC region.

Given the impending exhaustion of IPv4, RIPE have come up with three strategic "pillars". The first, Life Cycle Management - where addresses will increasingly be reclaimed and reallocated; the second, being known as a trusted source of data; and the third, reemphasizing the network coordination centre that RIPE is. Upcoming major projects include improving (Provider Independent) PI-Assignments and preparing new community "RIPE Labs" - a forum for presenting new ideas and tools.

14. Policy SIG report

Terence Zhang was appointed as the new Policy SIG Co-chair. Prop-50, prop-73, prop-74 and prop-75 all reached consensus and will be passed to the EC. Prop-76 did not reach consensus and will be returned to the mailing list for further discussion. Prop-77 and prop-78 will both be returned to the authors for reconsideration.

15. NRO Statistics report

This report outlines Internet number resource statistics for the five RIRs. As of 30 July 2009, IANA has 30 /8s remaining. The allocations of IPv4 in 2009 compared to this time in 2008 are less than half, probably as a result of the global financial crisis. Over the last ten years, APNIC has allocated more IPv4 addresses than any other region. APNIC's IPv6 allocation has grown over the last few years, with a total of 800 in 2008 and so far for 2009, 500.

16. ASO report

The ASO's responsibility is to advise the ICANN Board and select two ICANN Board members and one NC member. It comprises 15 members (3 from each region); with terms of appointment of two years for elected members and one year for appointed members. An election process committee has been formed to try and improve the ICANN Board election process. Still ongoing is the global policy proposal regarding allocation of IPv4 blocks to the RIRs. The ASO meet monthly via teleconference and annually via face-to-face meeting.

17. IANA report

IANA has reclaimed 14.0.0.0/8 from the x.25 operator community in 2007 and has been working with ARIN and IESG on returning smaller blocks. IANA is working with the RIRs on a new automated system for reverse DNS management. It includes provisions for securely accepting DNSSEC delegation material from the RIRs signing reverse domains. The systems entered beta testing at the end of July 2009. IANA are also working with various groups on an interim mechanism for DNSSEC in the DNS root later in 2009. The Interim Trust Anchor Repository (ITAR) will remain available until a permanent mechanism is agreed and deployed. The next ICANN meeting is in Seoul, 25-30 October 2009.

18. NIR SIG report

Izumi Okutani was elected again as Chair of the NIR SIG with Wendy Zhao as the new Co-Chair. Discussion centred on IPv4 exhaustion issues, improving IPv6 deployment, and a discussion on the DDoS attacks in Korea. Also discussed was improved collaboration between APNIC and the NIRs on APNIC's IPv6 program.

19. Open discussion (open mic)

There was a question regarding APNIC's involvement with cryptographic signing of updates from the NRO. Paul Wilson replied that although the aim for a single route is optimal, it is not feasible in the short-term and in the meantime, there will be trial deployments based on a number of RIR self-signed routes. The Engineering Coordination Group (ECG) of the NRO is discussing the architecture of the whole system and how it can be implemented by the RIRs. The speaker requested documentation of this summary and more open involvement by the technical community in the process. Another speaker highlighted that the focus has been on origin validation for updates not signing per se and that the IETF is amenable to either extending the charter of the working group or forming a new working group to address signing queries. There were also questions regarding the timeline for discussion, with suggestions that it be put up for discussion at the next Policy SIG.

20. APRICOT 2010/APNIC 29 launch

APRICOT 2010/APNIC 29 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 23 February to 5 March 2010.

21. APNIC 30 invitation

  • Presenter: Apipol Gunabhibal, TOT
  • Presentation: Transcript

TOT invited everyone to APNIC 30, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 23 to 27 August 2010.

22. NRO NC Election results

Dr Kenny Huang was reelected as the NRO NC candidate with 73 votes.

23. Thanks and closing

The meeting ended at 15.30 with a vote of thanks to all the sponsors and to all those who participated in making APNIC 28 a successful event.