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APNIC Annual Member Meeting 2000Special Interest GroupsDuring APRICOT 2000 APNIC hosted a series of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The SIGs were designed to provide an open public forum to discuss topics of interest to APNIC and the Internet community in the Asia Pacific region. The SIG topics were:
APNIC Address Policy SIGThursday 2 March 11:00-12:30, 14:00-15:30Chair: Takashi Arano This session will examine current issues in the management of address space in the Asia Pacific region.
Routing SIGWednesday 1 March 11:00-12:30Chair: Philip Smith This special interest group will investigate some of the hot topics regarding Internet routing today. These will include Routing Registry use, Internet stability, the size of Internet routing table, etc. Also, we will explore whether any of this really matters today, and what the major issues might really be.
DNS SIGThursday 2 March 16:00-17:50Chair: Mathias Koerber APNIC has recently introduced new and improved procedures for requesting in-addr.arpa delegations based on the use of the domain object in the APNIC database. In addition, an overview of DNSSec will be given, with particular attention paid to reverse DNS.
APNIC PGP and the RIPE database SIGWednesday 1 March 16:00-17:30Chair: Joao Damas Authentication and authorisation of address space registrations is fundamental to the operation of the Internet. This SIG session will take a look at security in the context of the APNIC database. In particular the use of PGP by the RIPE NCC is examined, together with issues of key management. An update on APNICs certification authority project will also be presented and finally an overview of cryptography software regulatations and availability in the AP region.
IPv6 SIGWednesday 1 March 14:00-15:30Chair: Akira Kato This special interest group will look at a number of practical issues surrounding the development and deployment of IPv6.
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