APNIC History and Overview AfriNIC Meeting Cape Town, May 2000
APNIC History and Overview Formation and development Current status Resource status Meetings and coordination Questions
APNIC History 1992 APNIC established by APCCIRN / APEPG Asia Pacific Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks Asia Pacific Engineering and Planning Group APCCIRN/APEPG later renamed to Asia-Pacific Networking Group (APNG) Established as pilot project to administer address space as defined by RFC-1366 but also had wider brief to facilitate communication, business, and culture using Internet technologies
APNIC History 1993 APNG unable to provide formal umbrella or legal structure Pilot project concludes, but APNIC continues independently as Interim Project 1994... operates under authority of IANA, but still without legal, membership or fee structure
APNIC History 1995 First APNIC meeting held in Bangkok 2-day meeting, volunteer-run, run, no fees Voluntary donation sought according to organisation size: Small: $ 1500.00 Medium: $ 5000.00 Large: $10000.00 Three member types defined by APNIC-001: ISP (Local IR), Enterprise, National
APNIC History 1996 Establishment of membership and fee structure Four membership tiers (APNIC-040): Large(4) Medium(2) Small(1) $10,000/annum $ 5,000/annum $ 2,500/annum $ 1,500/annum (until 1997) Enterprise(0) $ 1,500/annum ( Also: special Confederation category Also: non-member fee structure First APRICOT meeting held
APNIC History 1997 Despite membership structure and funding base, growth restricted by local environment eg staff restricted to 4-54 Identified need to move from Japan for reduction in cost and complexity of operations Independent consultants (KPMG) contracted to identify location
APNIC History 1998 New location announced: Brisbane, Australia Stable infrastructure Low cost of living and operation Tax advantages for membership organisations Relocation April - August 1998 Continuous operation throughout
APNIC History RIPE NCC ARIN APNIC * * Relocation 1998 ASIA PACIFIC NETWORK INFORMATION CENTRE
APNIC History 1999 Relocation completed Asian economic crisis ends Period of consolidation for APNIC sustainable growth policy development documentation internal systems
Annual Report 1999 APNIC staffing Grew from 8 to 13 (now 15) APNIC membership Increased 59% - from 246 to 396 (now 480) APNIC region Members in 34 of 62 AP Economies (4 new in 1999) APNIC activities...
Annual Report 1999 IPv6 services launched Training courses held in five countries ICANN ASO formed Over 13,500 tickets processed Financial security strengthened Strategic planning...
Annual Report 1999 APNIC Mission Statement... Addressing the challenge of responsible Internet resource distribution in the Asia Pacific region.
APNIC in 2000 - APNIC Membership - (480 members*) - Executive Council - (7 members) - Director General - Member Services Manager Tech Services Manager Business Manager Documentation Manager Hostmaster Sys Admin Accountant Webmaster Hostmaster Jr Sys Adm M'Ship Officer Hostmaster Programm er Hostmaster Programm er Hostmaster Programm er Training Mgr DB Admin * 1 May 2000
Dec-99 Mar-00 Jun-99 Sep-99 Mar-99 Sep-98 Dec-98 APNIC Membership Very Large Large Medium Small 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Jun-96 Sep-96 Dec-96 Mar-97 Jun-97 Sep-97 Dec-97 Mar-98 Jun-98
APNIC Membership 12/31/96 AP AU BD CN 12/31/97 HK ID IN JP 12/31/98 LK MY NP NZ 12/31/99 PH PK SG TH 4/30/2000 TW 0 100 200 300 400 500
Ticketing System (1999) Info (2269) Adm in (1858) Hostmaster (3213) 2500 2000 Technical (6216) 1500 1000 500 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
APNIC Resource Status Consumption rate (3 years) 590,000 IPv4/month (0.42 x /8 p.a.) 22 ASN/month (264 p.a.) Consumption rate (1999) 807,000 IPv4/month (0.58 x /8 p.a.) 27 ASN/month (324 p.a.) Consumption rate (last 12 months) 1,152,469 IPv4/month (0.82 x /8 p.a.) 40 ASN/month (480 p.a.)
IPv4 Allocations - Total 45,000,000 40,000,000 35,000,000 30,000,000 25,000,000 20,000,000 15,000,000 10,000,000 5,000,000 0 Sep-96 Dec-96 Mar-97 Jun-97 Sep-97 Dec-97 Mar-98 Jun-98 Sep-98 De c-98 Mar-99 Jun-99 Sep-99 Dec-99 Mar-00
IPv4 Allocations - Distribution CN 19% KR 19% AU 15% JP 27% TW 8% HK 3% Oth er 10% TH 1% NZ 1% MY 1% AP 1% SG 1% PH 1% IN 1% ID 1% PK 0% OT HER 1%
IPv6 Allocations - Distribution Date Organisation Economy 13/08/99 WIDE Project JP 27/08/99 National University of Singapore SG 16/09/99 Connect.com.au AU 22/09/99 NTT JP 6/10/99 Korea Research and Education Network KR 27/10/99 JENS JP 24/11/99 Electronics and Telecomms Research Institute KR 8/02/00 Chunghwa Telecom TW 8/03/00 Internet Initiative Japan JP 14/03/00 IMNET JP 26/04/00 CERNET CN 2/05/00 Infoweb JP
APRICOT 2000 (March) APNIC sponsored training and SIG track Training - free for APNIC members APNIC policies and procedures, IPv6, RPSL SIGs - open to the public Routing Database DNS Address Policy Annual Members Meeting 2000
Annual Member Meeting 2000 APNIC Annual Report EC elections Reports from SIGs Endorsement of policy recommendations New fee structure approved Membership category to be determined by total allocations held
APNIC Meeting October 2000 Second APNIC meeting in 2000 New meeting format 33 day meeting Policy and Technical Tracks SIGs and Plenary sessions Wed 25 to Fri 27 October 2000 Novotel,, Brisbane, Australia see http://www.apnic.net All welcome!!!
APNIC Coordination Open APNIC mailing lists apnic-talk, apnic-members, apnic-announce announce email <majordomo@lists.apnic.net> SIG lists sig-routing, sig-policy, sig-dns etc Others Web site apops,, apple, s-asia-itit etc http://www.apnic.net documents, minutes, archives, forms, tools
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