Report
Thank you to the attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to APNIC 58. The preliminary event participation statistics are:
Conference Statistics
Total number of in person attendees | 349 | |
Total number of online-only participants | 74 | |
Economies represented | 47 | |
APNIC Member organizations represented | 134 |
NRO NC Election 2024
One position was open for election at APNIC 58. The nominations (in the order they were received) were:
- Karl Kloppenborg
- Shubham Saran (This nominee withdrew his candidacy on 21 August 2024)
- Nicole T.I. Chan
Congratulations to Nicole T. I. Chan on her election to the NRO NC. Nicole will serve a two-year term of office 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026.
SIG Co-Chair Elections
Co-Chair Elections were also held for the following SIGs. Congratulations to:
- Cooperation SIG - Bikram Shrestha
- NIR SIG - Zhen Yu
- Policy SIG - Ching-Heng Ku
- Routing Security SIG - Taiji Kimura
Many thanks to outgoing Co-Chair Anupam Agrawal for his service to the APNIC Policy SIG and community. We also thank Di Ma for his service as the acting Co-Chair of the Routing Security SIG.
The results are available to view.
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.
Discussion centred on “ICP-2, why is it important?”, including its history.
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 the following presentations:
- JPNIC update (Koki Nakagawa)
- KRNIC/KISA update (Sanghyun Kang)
- TWNIC update (WenYu Chen)
- CNNIC update (Zhen Yu)
- IPv6 and RPKI deployment in Viet Nam (Oanh Nguyen)
- RDAP: Security and Sustainability (Tom Harrison)
There was also a panel discussion on ‘Secure, sustainable Internet infrastructure and the role of NIR”
Open Policy Meeting (Policy SIG)
The APNIC Open Policy Meeting (OPM) is an open forum to develop policies that relate to the management and use of Internet number resources within the Asia Pacific region. These include policies for resource allocation, recovery and transfer, and for resource registration within whois, reverse DNS, RPKI and related services.
The Open Policy Meeting (OPM) had an informational presentation about the following:
- Using IPv6 for the Internet of Things (Guangliang Pan)
The following proposals did not reach consensus:
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prop-157: Temporary IPv4 Transfers:
- The Chairs have decided to drop the proposal because of the strong opposition in the community.
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prop-159: Reduction of minimum IPv6 allocation size form /32 to /36.
- The proposal is dropped.
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prop-160: Change IPv6 Initial assignment to /44
for Organizations Eligible for multihoming.
- The proposal will go back to the mailing list.
Routing Security SIG
The Routing Security SIG provides a platform to discuss operational issues and best practices to secure global Internet routing. It also provides advice, support and technical review of policy proposals concerning routing security to advise the APNIC Community.
The SIG had presentations about the following topics:
- A Routing Security Journey (Yeshaswini Ramesh)
- Problem statement of inconsistent securities of ROAs and VRPs (Shuhe Wang)
- A tale of two synergies: Uncovering RPKI practices for RTBH (Massimo Candela)
- A Signed Group of Multiple-Origin ASes for Use in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) (Professor Zhuotao Liu)
- RPKI Asia Pacific update (Dave Phelan)
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