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MUMBAI, INDIA
4 – 10 September 2026

Report

Thank you to the attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to APNIC 62. The preliminary event participation statistics are:

Conference Statistics

Total number of in person attendees 583
Total number of online-only participants 84
Economies represented 54
APNIC Member organizations represented 169

NRO NC Election 2026

One position was open for election at APNIC 62. The nominations (in the order they were received) were:

Congratulations to Gazi Zehadul Kabir on his election to the NRO NC. Gazi will serve a two-year term of office 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028.

Many thanks to outgoing NRO NC member Nicole T. I Chan for her service to the NRO NC and the APNIC community.

The results of APNIC 62 are available to view.

SIG Chair and Co-Chair Elections 2026

Elections were also held for the following SIGs. Congratulations to:

The results of APNIC 62 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 discussion of IP geolocation, exploring how geolocation data is created, maintained, verified, and used across real-world Internet operations.

The Cooperation SIG had the following presentations:

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:

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 following proposals reached consensus:

  • prop-169: Aligning IPv4 LIR Needs Assessment with Current IPv4 Delegation Policy
  • prop-170: Nibble-Boundary Alignment for IPv6 Allocations

The following proposals did not reach consensus and will be sent back to the mailing list for further discussion:

  • prop-164: Allocations of IPv6 Resources longer than a /32 with a nibble boundary alignment
  • prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations
  • prop-171: Operational Accountability for Abuse Contacts in Sub-Allocated Address Space

There was no consensus call held for the following proposals:

  • prop-165: Provision of IPv4 Address Space to IPv6-only Networks for Transitional Purpose
  • prop-172: Defining Internet Abuse through IP Addresses

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:

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