Conference Statistics
Total number of on-site delegates:	383*
Economies represented:	43
APNIC Member organizations represented:	128
Remote Participants:
Adobe Connect:	186**
YouTube	697 views; 6,432 minutes viewed
#apnic44 tweets: Total people reached:	459 tweets 465,263

* Excludes APNIC staff.
** Web-based online participation options included a choice of video, audio, and text chat. These figures are based on unique IP addresses and exclude APNIC staff and on-site participants, as reported by Adobe Connect statistics.

NRO NC Election

A final list of nominees are listed below in the order their nominations were received. 

• Prodip Kumer Das (This nominee withdrew his candidacy on 16 July 2017)
• Md. Mahbub Uddin (This nominee withdrew his candidacy on 20 July 2017)
• A S M Khayrul Akter Chowdhury
• Seyed Mohammad Najafi
• Vladimir Kangin
• Sanaullah Soomro
• Jahangir Hossain
• Tomohiro Fujisaki
• Jeffrey Auksel (This nominee withdrew his candidacy on 3 August 2017)
• Mohammed Tayab
• Mohammad Rafi
• Aftab Siddiqui

Congratulations to Aftab Siddiqui on his election to the NRO NC. He will serve on the NRO NC/ASO AC for two years from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019.

Cooperation SIG

The Cooperation SIG is a forum for discussion about broader Internet issues such as public policy and Internet governance with a focus on information sharing, outreach, capacity building, and other activities that will advance APNIC’s vision for a global, open, stable, and secure Internet.

Presentations at the SIG included:

• The Present and The Future ISAC in Taiwan (Henry Yu)
• M3AAWG and Transnational Anti-Abuse Working Group Development (Jesse Sowell)
• Current Conditions and Challenges of The Cybersecurity in Taiwan (Chih-Ho Chou)
• Crowd sourcing Cyber Security : Tapping the Untapped (Jiten Jain)

NIR SIG

The NIR SIG shares information relating to the operations, policies, and procedures of National Internet Registries (NIRs) with the aim of promoting close cooperation among the NIRs and with the APNIC Secretariat.

The NIR SIG had presentations from the following NIRs:

• CNNIC Update (Zhen Yu)
• KRNIC Update (Sanghyun Kang)
• VNNIC Update (Oanh Nguyen)
• TWNIC Update (Yeh-Chieh Wang)
• JPNIC Update (Hiroki Kawabata)
• IDNIC Update (Benyamin P. Naibaho)
• IRINN Update (Brajesh Jain)

NIR SIG Chair, Shyam Nair was unable to participate due to a family illness. The Secretariat conducted the election and Zhen Yu was appointed as the Co-Chair of the NIR SIG. He will serve a two-year term that will end at the beginning of the APNIC 48 SIG meeting.

Policy SIG

The APNIC Policy SIG is an open forum to develop policies and procedures that relate to the management and use of Internet address resources by APNIC, NIRs and ISPs within the Asia Pacific region.

The following policy proposals were discussed at the APNIC 44 Policy SIG over three sessions.

Reached consensus after revised proposal:

• prop-116: - Prohibit to transfer IPv4 addresses in the final /8 block
• After community discussion, author changed two year period to five years.
• Removed text “This restriction will end when final /8 address block (103/8) run out.”

Reached consensus: 

Translated summaries of the policy proposals

A summary of the policy proposals discussed at the APNIC 44 Policy SIG have been translated into the following languages.

Proposals discussed	Proposal outcomes
English	English
Bahasa Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesian
Chinese (Simplified)	Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)	Chinese (Traditional)
Hindi	Hindi
Japanese	Japanese
Thai	Thai
Vietnamese	Vietnamese

Upcoming Conferences

APRICOT 2018/APNIC 45
Kathmandu, Nepal
19 February to 1 March 2018

APNIC 46
Oceania: Noumea, New Caledonia
6 – 13 September 2018