Annual Member Meeting, Friday 22 Aug, 9:00-11:00 am PAUL WILSON: Well, good morning. I think it’s time we got started. Today’s agenda starts with the annual election of Address Council members. And that’s going to take about half an hour to do the election, and then move on into the APNIC members meeting from 9:30 until the rest of the day. I’ll mention now that there are voting forms for the ASO Address Council election and everyone in the room should have one of those. If you don’t have one of those right now, then the voting’s going to be open until lunchtime, so you will have a chance to get voting forms before the voting closes. There’s no need to rush out right now and do that. The Address Council is a part of the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation and the ASO is a component of the ICANN structure which has been built into ICANN since ICANN was established in 1998. The ASO is formed by the RIRs and is responsible for the process of establishing global policy through ICANN processes. The ASO has an Address Council which is the policy review and coordination body and the Address Council has three members from each region. In each region, we elect one member per year for a 3-year term and so, at this time of year, we have a regular Address Council election for one single member. The candidates for the election that we’re holding today are listed on the screen and you can also see their names on the ballot paper which I’m holding up now and you should also have a colour-printed sheet which gives you one page of details on each of the candidates. So you can see the name and details, the biographical information and the motivational statement for nomination on this page here to assist you with voting. What I would like to do in a minute is to invite both of those candidates, if they wish, to say a few words of introduction to themselves and to perhaps state their interest in running for the Address Council for the benefit of the audience today. I will just run through the voting procedure first. This procedure is documented on the form, so please do read the ballot paper quite carefully. There are important notes at the bottom. In particular, the voting entitlement extends to any APNIC member. A member organisation can appoint a proxy to vote for them. So, if you are carrying proxies which have been submitted by a member that identify you to vote for them, then you can receive a ballot paper for that proxy. But, in addition, any individual here is entitled to a single vote. If you are a registered individual for this meeting or for any of the previous meetings that are listed here, you should, if you have a registration card for this meeting, you should definitely have a ballot paper. If you are not registered for this meeting, but are present and wish to vote for the Address Council election, then please approach the registration desk outside, who can confirm your attendance at a previous meeting and, therefore, give you a ballot paper. As I mentioned, in addition, if you are carrying a proxy on behalf of an APNIC member organisation, that is a formal proxy form identifying you as a formal proxy voter, you can receive an additional ballot paper for that purpose. The voting procedure is that the ballot box will be open from the end of this session, from 9:30 and it will close at 12:30 sharp. So that’s at the end of the morning sessions of the meeting, just before lunch, the ballot box will close and I’ll give you a reminder at that time, before we break for lunch. What we will then need to do is count the votes and the announcement of the successful candidate will be made this afternoon, before the end of the day. What I would like to request now is some volunteers who would independently carry out the counting during the afternoon. So could I ask for a couple of volunteers at least to do that, preferably anyone who doesn’t intend to vote. Colleagues from other parts of the world, other RIRs perhaps? Ray and Richard from ARIN. Staff from the other three RIRs have volunteered to count the votes, thank you. OK, that explains the procedures. What I’d like to do now is ask whether either of the candidates would like to come and say a few words in support of their nomination. So, firstly, Hyun-joon Kwon, are you here? If anyone knows where Mr Kwon is and he would like to come along this morning, please invite him along. XIANGJIAN LI: Good morning, everybody. I’m Xiangjian Li from China. Some may know me by the name of Eugene Li. Any name is fine. I would like to take a couple of minutes to introduce to you some basic information about myself and my job. After gaining my masters degree in the University of Texas at Arlington, I joined into CNNIC. Currently, I’m the hostmaster and IP address manager of CNNIC. I’ve been working with CNNIC for almost one year now. During that period, I and other members of the IP address team worked together very hard to process the IP address requests and AS member requests within the Chinese area. Both I and other members of the IP team are very proud of our job and we love this job. At the same time, we love to attribute more to this job. That’s why I stand here: If I’m so lucky to be selected as the... you know, if I am lucky to be selected, I would like to do my best to attribute more. Thank you. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Thank you very much. OK, is Mr Kwon here by any chance? I think it would be fair to give Hyun-joon an opportunity to speak if he does arrive before close today, so we will do that and move on. If anyone requires any assistance with the voting process, then please feel free to approach a member of APNIC staff and they can explain the process to you, particularly voting entitlement, if there’s anything unclear about that. Are there any questions about the ASO AC election, the voting procedure? No questions or comments? OK, in that case, let’s move on to the next item of the agenda which is the APNIC Member Meeting. I’m sure that everyone here knows by now this is, of course, an open meeting. It’s referred to as the ‘APNIC Member Meeting’ because it’s dedicated to things which are of concern or interest to APNIC members. It is an open meeting, so anyone who is registered to attend an open policy meeting or has come along specially today for this meeting is free to stay of course and to participate as much as anyone. First, I’d like to very sincerely thank TWNIC for their support of this day, the fourth day of the APNIC open policy meeting. I’ll be able to display their logo in just a second. TWNIC is a silver sponsor for this meeting and they are supporting this, the fourth day of the APNIC member meeting in particular so, sincere thanks to TWNIC for their support. Also to Korea Telecom for their support as a platinum sponsor, that’s the top sponsorship category for the entire meeting, so thanks very much again to Korea Telecom. By way of an overview of the agenda, we will be listening to some reports during the morning today.(continue)I’ll be delivering a status report. That will be followed by questions and discussion before morning tea. After morning tea, we’ll have further reports from the other RIRs and a global Internet resource status report which shows the developments in Internet resource management around the globe. In the afternoon today, we will have reports back from all of the special interest groups and those will be presented by the chairs of those SIGs. After the afternoon tea break, we’ll announce the result of the AC election. We’ll also hear a report from the Address Council presented by Kenny Huang of the AP address council members. We’ll look at a demonstration of the MyAPNIC service. I’d like to know if there are any questions or suggestions regarding the agenda this morning. Are there any questions or suggestions about the agenda as I described it? Those slides will appear again during the day to remind you where we are in the agenda. Please feel free to make any comments. There’s also on this agenda designated open- microphone sessions. The meeting is meant to be pretty informal so please, anyone who would like to make a contribution, you’re most welcome. Contributions that you make are considered to be very important in this meeting so please feel very free to put your hand up and make a comment, question, suggestion of any kind at all. Now, I’d like to move on into the APNIC status report. This is a report of what has been happening within APNIC and in particular the APNIC Secretariat since the beginning of the year, since the last time we made the report from APNIC at our last meeting at APRICOT in Taiwan. I’ll be talking about membership status to let you know how APNIC membership is progressing and the chart here - I’m sure you’re used to seeing this - it shows the progressive total of APNIC membership, including all the various membership categories that we’ve got. In 2003 so far, we’ve had 59 new members, which represents an acceleration over last year’s total of 68 for the entire year, so the membership graph is looking pretty good. Most of the growth, of course, happens in the associate and very small categories these days, but you would notice that the associate level is leveling out to represent pretty much the ongoing regular intake of new APNIC members who increase their membership category after their first year in accordance with the Internet resource holdings that they’ve received. So the small and the subsequent larger categories of membership are gradually increasing at the same time. The distribution of APNIC members around the world is gradually changing. The top economy in terms of APNIC membership at the moment is Australia with 22%, Hong Kong with 13%, India with 12% and so on. You can see the figures here. These slides will be available on the website for your review later on in the day. This chart is a little bit busy but it shows the ongoing growth of members in each of the categories of membership. Above the line are members joining APNIC. Below the line are members leaving APNIC. Most of the members who leave APNIC are doing so as a result either of non-use of APNIC resources or as a result of mergers and acquisitions, which are a fairly common phenomenon these days. The yellow line which runs through the middle there represents the monthly increase in membership so, as you would have seen from the previous chart, we did have quite a slow growth period at the beginning of 2002 but that has increased to a steady average of 10 or so members per month. So that’s the membership. I’ll move on to resource status. This report is oriented towards APNIC’s resource service activities. One of the reports after morning tea will be the global resource status report which will give a comparative view of all of the RIRs and how our resource management activities are comparing. So APNIC is currently holding 11 /8 blocks delegated from the IANA and, of course, most of those blocks are almost fully utilised, as you can see on the chart here. Each of the different bands represents a different /8 block, which is identified by the key. Our IPv4 deployment rate has been on a fairly steady, more or less linear increase for some years now. This year, however, so far, we’ve allocated 1.2 /8s and, if that trend continues, then we’re likely this year to allocate substantially more than last year. The distribution of those IPv4 addresses on a country code - their economy basis - is shown here. So the country code with most IPv4 addresses registered by APNIC is JP, followed by CN. CN has reached approximately two /8 blocks in total. KR, TW, AU, HK and the rest. The different-coloured bands here represent the year of allocation of addresses. So you can see for instance that, in the year 2000, this is the year in which we saw in Korea this very rapid growth that corresponded with the very rapid deployment of services here. On the other hand, JP is continuing to grow rapidly and likewise, CN. Another view of the same data shows the annual growth, the total number of addresses allocated per year and it shows where each of the those years the addresses were allocated. So this is just another view, another way to look at the same data set. IPv6 is something that we reported specially on in the IPv6 technical SIG and this is just a recap. It shows that IPv6 allocations are continuing. They’re, in fact, slowing down a little bit. In 2002, there were 45 blocks allocated. In 2003 - I’m sorry, there’s a typo on the slide there - we’ve had 20 blocks allocated. It’s interesting that some people are concerned that IPv6 deployment in this region is slowing down but hopefully the work that’s being done on the v6 policy will clarify some aspects of the policy and help those who may be in need of IPv6 address space and would be interested to use it to come and apply. Distribution of IPv6 address space is very much the same relatively as it has been, with Japan holding more than half of the blocks allocated so far. The ASNs allocated is on a fairly steady climb. It’s slowing down a little bit this year so far. But, in the Asia Pacific region, as you will see with the global statistics, we’ve never allocated ASNs very quickly in this region and that’s how the trend is continuing. The distribution around the region - KR-20%, JP-19%. By way of indication of the online service loads that are being experienced by APNIC, Whois queries are continuing to climb in a linear fashion, with approximately 1,000,000 queries a day being processed. These queries are being served by multiple servers these days, being load-shared. Certainly, some of the increase that we’ve seen over the last few years, would be to do with increased capacity of the service structure to provide those queries. The web queries, interestingly, are climbing in an exponential fashion, they keep getting more and more , increasing each year, and I think that’s a sign of the useful services which are being delivered by the web these days. OK, so that concludes just an overview of the resource and online services status. I’d like to move on to talk about specific developments that have been occurring so far this year across multiple service areas within the APNIC secretariat. So, in the member services area, I think most of you would be aware that the member services help desk is a very active service these days, particularly the phone hotline, which is experiencing increase in use as members are aware that, not only can they telephone APNIC with inquiries about their requests and other services, but they can also make use of languages other than English on that service. The help desk also has a physical presence, as you will have noticed during the week here. APNIC member services staff are here in some number. They’re providing hostmaster consultations with members about specific resource requests and queries. They are offering other services like the certification authority, that is to provide you with digital certificates here, and various other supporting activities. The demonstration of MyAPNIC has also been running during this period. The help desk service was actually provided recently as well at a non-APNIC meeting, the SANOG, South Asia Network Operators Group meeting in Colombo. I think you’ll see the APNIC help desk showing up in other meetings in the region which are not just APNIC meetings. MyAPNIC is another area of major service development in the member services area and in the technical area, and we’ll run through a demonstration of the latest version later today. All APNIC members should have heard quite a few times by now about the corporate contact project which is one to really tighten up and formalise the recording of contact details for our members. Particularly as we move into digital certificates, access to MyAPNIC actually allows you to manipulate resources and registrations. It’s very important that we have verified, accurate corporate contact details. So we firstly need to remember the verified, accurate identification of a person in authority. Once that person has been registered and issued with a certificate for MyAPNIC, they are then enabled to register other staff of their organisation. They’re able to assign certain privileges to other staff in their organisation to use MyAPNIC in different ways and that’s a very important project from an administrative and formal point of view, because we do need to identify, as I said, very clearly, the person who is the key person responsible for each membership of APNIC. We’ve had an increasing number of exchange and training visits to APNIC. We had Toshi from JPNIC, Adi from APJII and Kien Tran from VNNIC all at APNIC for a substantial period of time this year and we found those - and I believe the members concerned found those - to be very helpful visits in both training, liaison, mutual understanding and a cooperative sense. The training courses that APNIC has been running for quite some time are under very active development. The training team is extremely busy updating course material. We now have two separate days of training courses. We used to try and pack everything into one day. It was becoming an extremely busy and intense training day, so we now have two separate courses - Internet resource management I and unit II and the second unit provides the more advanced topics which are appropriate to some audiences or for an extended 2-day training event. We have a new addition that APNIC staff are delivering, DNS training. APNIC has supported DNS workshops in this meeting and at APNIC meetings through APRICOT for quite some time. Those workshops have been conducted by experts from other parts of the world who have done a fantastic job but haven’t had the ability to cover all of the DNS training needs. As a result of the many requests that we’ve had for some more technical training, technically oriented training, we decided to take on a bigger responsibility in DNS training and we’ve offered that training in SANOG and also here. It will become a more regular feature of APNIC training in the coming six months and further. We’re exploring some collaborations, in particular with the School of the Internet in Asia which is run from the WIDE Project/Keio University in Japan. The SOI infrastructure extends to a dozen countries in the developing region. SOI is geared towards engineering training and, particularly through the satellite structure, training online through into developing countries such as those in Indo-China - Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia and a number of places. As I say, we are about to trial some actual online video delivery. Training administration - we are outsourcing some of our training activities to the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. We’re about to finalise an agreement with the AIT to take some responsibilities for locating venues, scheduling training, helping with us statistics in the region so that we don’t have to continue to build this increasing administrative capacity and administrative work at the APNIC head office. Future developments in the area of technical training include an interest in routing. Again, we’ve had some extremely good routing workshop training being conducted around the region for some time. We find that, often, demand is greater than supply and APNIC is going asked to try and take some role in that. Mind you, I’ll mention, with these technical training activities in particular, APNIC staff are not the training staff and other staff are not hands-on operational practitioners so we don’t expect to take over the role of experts like Bill Manning and Phil Smith in conducting these workshops but, in delivering technical content and making use where we can of hands-on experts to help us out, that’s the way we’re hoping to go. I’ll give you a view of how this training has been. We’ve had 13 training sessions so far this year. Would have been more if not for an enforced break that was imposed in April/May due to the SARS situation. Some sessions had to be deferred to later in the year but we’ve still managed to fit in 13 training sessions so far in 2003 and there are 14 more to come. October/November are particularly busy for the hard-working training team, particularly for the deferred training sessions. Moving on, in the member services documentation area, translation is one of the priorities that we have been emphasising for some time, as you see with the interpretation available at the meetings, and the interpretation being broadcast on the Internet as well. We have document translation being done fairly systematically and we have not a full range of documents but various documents available in simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and on the screen is an example of one of the translation document pages which shows a whole range of documents available in simplified Chinese in this case. Meetings - we’re currently sitting through an APNIC open policy meeting and APNIC secretariat and Executive Council regard these meetings as extremely important in the service of APNIC membership in the conduct of APNIC’s responsibilities. Participation in these meetings is very important and because we’re unable to, as a community, support the travel of everyone throughout the community into one place, we’re trying to increase participation through various means. So simultaneous translation is now a regular service. We’re also multicasting now on a regular basis. We trialed this at APNIC 15 in Taiwan. We are trying to make it a regular service. There have been technical difficulties at this meeting so it’s been a little bit intermittent. Real-time reporting is being trialed at this meeting. You may have noticed two individuals sitting at the front, Lorraine and Dean from Auscap and they are providing this incredible service of translating spoken English into text on the screen here. This is not only for the benefit of people sitting in this room, but the captioning logs are being kept and available on the website so that, in future, you can see exactly what was said and exactly what happened at these meetings. They’re also being broadcast via a web service and into the Jabber system, and are on a web page that you can see linked from the APNIC onsite notice board and on a text-based Jabber service. Other activities at these meetings; the onsite notice board is a regular feature. We’ve offered the help desk, a special newcomers’ session, what we’ve called informally a ‘buddy’ program where new people at the meeting have been assigned particular APNIC staff to help them out with any questions and understanding. This is a way that we as APNIC staff are trying to welcome anyone here who is a newcomer and who might need any sort of assistance overall. I hope that newcomers who have used it have found it a useful service. It is a new thing. Another first for this meeting is that we established a fellowship fund which took 15% of sponsorship contributions, a total of $7,000 and which attracted a $15,000 grant from the World Bank’s infoDev program. We were able to bring 12 APNIC fellows here with travel and support on a needs-based application basis. All these fellows, all of the fellows who we’ve welcomed here are from developing countries of the region and we do need to thank the World Bank’s infoDev program for the support they’ve given to that. We will attempt to receive this sort of support in future. The World Bank may not continue to provide funding every time for our meetings, but we’ll do our best to try and, as I say, increase participation in these meetings in whatever way that we can. Moving on to outreach - as usual, APNIC staff have traveled to important meetings, including IETF meetings, meetings of the Regional Internet Registries, ICANN, WSIS and ITU meetings. We made a special effort in the case of the SANOG II meeting which was held in Colombo last month in Sri Lanka. This was in response to a call over the years that APNIC should have some special sub-region focus of our activities. About five APNIC staff went to SANOG II and, as I mentioned before, they provided a mini help desk service, training and presentations. And so APNIC had a special presence at SANOG II and that has been, actually, enshrined in some way in a friendly memorandum of understanding between APNIC and SANOG itself, that this kind of activity will continue. We’ve also had a similar MOU with PITA, the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association and we see this as a good way to provide APNIC services on a small scale throughout the region. The NIRs are holding open policy meetings of various kinds and APNIC staff have attended JPNIC and APJII open policy meetings this year. On the policy front, there’ve been quite a lot of policy discussions going on, as anyone who sat through the SIGs this week, especially the address policy SIG, will know the agendas are very full and many important topics are discussed. By way of development this year, we’ve provided an update of the RIR policy comparison matrix, which is a cooperative activity with other RIR colleagues, we’ve provided some updates to the policy development process within the APNIC region. That also has been the subject of ongoing discussions. We’ve got ongoing work at the IPv6 area as discussed with database policies and procedures and DNS policies. These are ongoing discussions and developments at this meeting, as you’ll hear later today, we’ve had a few additional consensus decisions made which has represented some quite interesting progress this time around. And sub-regional fronts - I’m sure most of you would have met Save, who is our Pacific Islands policy liaison officer. We’re recruiting a similar position for South Asia right at the moment. That direction is one that came out of the survey again that the region was so diverse that sub- regional specialisation is really called for. On the technical service front, the Early Registration Transfer project, the interRIR project is well under way and going into next year because the registrations are being transferred on a regular progressive basis. Currently two /8 blocks a month are being processed. APNIC should receive equivalent of more or less up to five /8 blocks in total of early registration, historical registrations through this process. Cleaning up the database, something that was discussed at the last meeting and this meeting, updating the Whois software to provide more functionality, particularly in connection with MyAPNIC again. Internal systems are always a focus at APNIC in that we have taken an evolutionary approach. We use applications in managing membership and address management and resource management progress. Anyone who has e-mailed officials for APNIC would have seen evidence of RT as the interface that allows us to deal with your enquiries as efficiently as possible. We’re redesigning the meeting management system, the registration and associated processes and we’re providing support for the APRICOT conference in doing that so that the management system that we use will be able to be used by APRICOT. This is a kind of sponsorship of the APRICOT meeting which is part of APNIC’s ongoing support to that important regional meeting. I’d like to highlight in particular one of the projects in the technical area that we’re pursuing, which is to install, on a cooperative basis, anycast mirrors of root servers around the region. We’ve got a formal agreement with the Internet Software Consortium that is responsible for the F- root server and we are deploying, as I say, in a cooperative fashion, with local host organisations, we’re deploying instances of this root server. So far, Hong Kong has been live since January. Korea has been installed in the last few days and is in test now and apparently progressing very rapidly towards a live state, and we are fully prepared now to install a Beijing instance of the F- root next week. There are at least three more sites under discussion. There are also discussions with other root server operators. As you may know if you’ve been following this topic, there’s an increasing interest amongst nearly all the root server operators in deploying anycast mirrors because of the issues of DOS attacks and instabilities that have been occurring. I’d like to give you a summary now just finally of the APNIC secretariat staff. We are reaching 40 staff, which is quite a substantial team. Our rate of recruitment in the last two years has been a little bit slower than previously, so I hope we are reaching a fairly stable staffing situation. Four staff in total joined APNIC in 2002. Four staff so far in 2003. There’s been a few ups and downs in terms of staffing with natural attrition rates but the overall turnover of APNIC staff over the last five years is actually very, very low. It’s a total of maybe 12 or 15 head staff in total out of our team of nearly 40. So the Secretariat’s staffing is pretty stable. New arrivals. We have two new arrivals to announce to APNIC staff. Son Tran is not here for reasons that should be obvious. This little boy arrived yesterday and the other picture, which isn’t here just yet, is Chiaki-San, who had a baby in the last month and is also not attending for that reason. Just finally, the financial statement of the APNIC secretariat function. Our expenses this year - we have had a budget for the entire year of nearly $3.9 million. Against that budget, on a pro rata budget, we’re underspending by about $ 45,000 which is about 8% down. That’s a conservative approach to our expenditure which is being taken for reasons shown here. Revenue is also down a little bit in real terms, 5.8% below budget. But we also have a situation with the American dollar decreasing which has created some paper foreign exchange losses. There’s a double-edged sword there in the state of the US dollar; For all APNIC members, we’re all fairly happy that the US dollar is going down. It means that, at least in the case of APNIC fees, fees are going down in real terms, but it’s also increasing expenses for APNIC. We’re taking a fairly conservative approach. We’ve taken some measures to not be quite so exposed to the US dollar exchange rate. We should have a good ability during the rest of the year. So far, the figures are approximately balanced. It’s below budget but we have an operating surplus of $41,000. That is largely paper loss because of the unrealised gain because of foreign exchange movements. The balance sheet is also shown here with total assets up. Brings me to the end of the APNIC secretariat status report. I’d be very happy to answer any questions. We’ll move on now to Maemura Akinori. Please think about if there’s any questions you’d like to raise, feel free to do so. Q. Paul, are you going to post the reports online? PAUL WILSON: Yes. They will be. MAEMURA AKINORI: Can you hear me? OK. Good morning everyone. My name is Maemura Akinori. I’m chair of the APNIC Executive Council. I’ll take 10 minute or something to introduce you about the activity of the Executive Council in APNIC. This shows the current members of the EC. Myself, Maemura Akinori. Che-Hoo Cheng from Hong Kong. Geoff Huston from Australia. Hualin Qian from China. Yong Wan Ju from Korea. And again from China, Yan Ma. And from Taiwan, Kuo- Wei Wu. We have seven members and I am now chair. Yong Wan Ju is Treasurer and Mao Wei is secretary when we have the onsite EC meeting. A responsibility of the Executive Council is the oversight of APNIC in the interest of the membership. In APNIC’s process, the top membership, which is the APNIC member meeting. The membership have the highest level of decisions. EC is helping that and sometimes they delegate something from the membership. These four things we are taking care of day-to-day. The financial operation of APNIC. And then the EC has a look at the policy. Appointing the director- general of APNIC and also APNIC activities. Almost all things are left to the autonomy of the secretariat. Can you hear me well? Is that better? So, current EC activities is, as I mentioned in the previous page, we are checking the financial report and in this time, Paul introduced the semi-annual financial report. And we checked it. And the APNIC policy proposals were looked at. And also, currently ICANN has had a lot of discussion in the management field. We meet with other RIRs to discuss the way from now on to improve our governance and management with ICANN. Also, as I mentioned, we have very good coordination between RIRs and IETF. This policy has many things to do with the technical aspects. At the time we have to coordinate with IETF. Also, APNIC EC has to be consistent with AC members from the Asia Pacific region. In this time, we have an onsite meeting to discuss this. You can find the minutes of the EC minutes on the APNIC website. Thank you very much. PAUL WILSON: Thank you. So we do have a little bit of time for questions about the APNIC reports. Either the Secretariat report so far in 2003 or the EC. While you’re thinking about your questions, I’ll show you the slide I was meant to show you before with the details of the APNIC secretariat. On the left, the happy mother - Chiaki in the middle. PAUL WILSON: Our question and discussion time is open till 10:30. The morning tea break starts at 10:30. There’s plenty of time for questions. On the other hand, we probably do have time to move one of the RIR reports up to listen to that before the coffee break. Would any of our RIR colleagues like to get their report over before the break? Ray Plzak is the president and CEO of ARIN. OK, I’m being asked to speak more clearly for the interpreters. I’m sorry. Handing over to Ray Plzak for the ARIN report. RAY PLZAK: Hi. I’m Ray Plzak here to give you an ARIN update. This is an update on our policy process, a report from ARIN XI and invite you to our next meeting, ARIN XII. This is an overview of the office area where ARIN is located. We’ve got some interesting neighbours. The new Air and Space Museum is being built nearby. It will be open in December of this year. This race track is a police academy. And it’s quite commonly to hear sirens and screeching tyres. There’s also a firing range there. We are located right there. From the ground view, this is what it looks like. If you look at the licence plates on some of these cars. Our members, we have two types of subscribers. The subscribers who receive IP space directly from ARIN. And the other subscribers complete a membership application form and submit a form for membership fee. The board members are elected for 3-year terms. Responsibilities are fiduciary and policy. There are 15 members. Terms for three years. Five elected each year and the responsibility is to advise the ARIN board of trustees. The ARIN mission statement. Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN is a not for profit corporation. Develops consensus-based policies and allocates Internet protocol resources is Registry Operations. The development of consensus based policies. And the association operations. The ARIN staff performs Registry Operations and performs Association Operations and facilitates. Registration operations are much like APNIC. They provide services such as Whois and the IRR. Association operations much like APNIC run elections, conducts meetings, provide information through a website, newsletter and conduct training. And policy development process is the same as APNIC, open, transparent, documented. Registry operations is performed by the registration services. These two departments are supported by three, engineering, business and human resources and administration. If you put it all together in a chart, that’s what it is. Human resources and administration department is managed by Mary K Lee and activities that she’s reporting on, we’ve just had an RIR staff exchange where we sent a person to RIPE NCC. And we’re planning in the next several months to have a staff exchange with LACNIC. No technical training but training on how to answer the telephone if you will, customer relations quite training. We’ve just had a communications training for the management team. We developed some procedures manuals. And to be compliant with the Federal Government, produce a fire/life safety plan, conduct training and certify several members. The average ARIN employee is about 40 years old. He’s worked at ARIN for about 30 months. Has 1.1 children. And has 3.8 personal computers. You can draw your own conclusions from that. Business department, Bob Stratton is the director. We’ve just completed our first fiscal calendar year. We are getting people to pay us the money they owe us. We’ve improved our billing tracking software. And we provide support to the finance committee. Here’s a breakdown of how we received payments in 2002. By far the largest amounts comes in through cheques. The engineering department. This is the equipment room. This is from March this year. What that shows you is the queries for that whole period of time is over 82,000,000. What is in the database? To place all the records mostly to show allocations and we provide information. Simple reassignments, almost a 500,000. You can see them there. You can see a picture of what the database looks like. We need to continue to clean it up after we made the transition. Completed projects - we revised our AUP for the Whois. It’s not provided user id-password. Now members includes POC information. We’ve completed a web-based template generator. appended action on subject line on conformations and returned messages. And the Whois display has been modified. Current products - we’re working very hard on getting X.509 certificate authority up. We’re hoping to get it up in the fourth quarter of this year. We’re going to provide ARIN services over IPv6. We’re participating in the ERX. Continuing to write utilities. And we’re seeing a lot of hijacking. Susan Hamlin is in charge of member services. The bulk are from the US of membership. We do have nine from outside the region. There are multiple members from Australia. Distribution of members in Africa and Canada. And the top 10 inside the US. Membership growth - from the April, 2001 ARIN meeting through the April, 2003 member meeting, you can see it continues to grow. Activities and projects. We recently published the annual report. Busy planning and working for ARIN XII. Working on producing a members only website. And also a place to find feedback in conjunction with the website itself. Communications - content updates which have been going on. We changed a couple of things in regards to mailing lists. ARIN announce is now open to the public. And the PPML list is reserved for only policy announcements and discussions. We do produce a quarterly newsletter and everyone is welcome to suggest topics and submit articles. If anyone would like to send an article to us, we would be glad to publish it for you. This is the fulfilment of IPv4 requests in 2002. The end- user was kind of accepted. Like APNIC, our category small is the largest. These are subscribers in 2002. We had no large increase in subscribers in 2002. Some interesting facts - I think the most interesting one is the last one. Of the 788 transfer requested in 2002, only 258 were actually completed. This primarily is due to people being unable to provide the correct legal documentation. We are not … the board of trustees have waived for this. The other interesting fact is 90% of all templates - our database is not for direct allocation or assignment, 90% of it. Ongoing projects - the biggest one is hijacking. We have documented the cases of some of around 50 hijacked IP addresses and we’re investigating others. We are planning where we can to take direct legal action. The way IP addresses are hijacked is because of stale data that exists in the domain registry data base. One of the scenarios is for a hijacker to go and find an old domain, verify it’s inactive and then set up a corporation some place else with the same name, then register that domain. Have an email address and just start making small changes. And eventually you have enough proof so that when you go to a service provider and say, "Please route me." You can be routed. In some cases it’s a little easier because by doing a little social engineering with the service provider, you can get routing easier. Every place has found that we have taken back. The spammers take them and wring them out. While one of them tried to sell an IP address on Ebay and after we informed the management of Ebay that we would be prosecuting them if they didn’t cease, they then stopped. The policy development process - there are a few things you should be aware of. We’re advising our policy process that’s been documented in place for several years now. Based upon experience, some of the things are going to occur. The advisory council has been given a much more direct role. And we also now put in a petition process, whereas if someone proposes a policy and the advisory council thinks that there’s some flaw with it and the person says, "I don’t care what you think," they can petition it with moving forward. They can also petition it past the last call. The advisory council now organises itself into small discussion groups of two to three people from each proposal. They make sure that if there’s not going to be any discussion on the mail list that they’ll pop up and say something, just to stimulate the conversation. The last thing is a person reports directly to Richard who is the director of operations and their job is to do nothing but management the policy process and also function as a secretariat for the advisory council. There were several staff members in Montevideo workshop. We paid the expenses of the AfriNIC personnel to come to Montevideo. At ARIN XI, we had a discussion on a lot of policy proposals. It was a very busy two days. Three of them made it through to the final call, although in 2003, one of them got to the last call. A significant amount of comments were made to causes which are now deferred, which are now back into discussion and it will be considered at our next meeting. Seven of them were deferred. Further discussion, some of them may be rolled up within each other. Some of them are going to go forward and will be discussed at the next meeting and are being discussed on our mailing list right now. And three of them were abandoned. Either because they were similar to something that already existed, or it wasn’t appropriate as a policy. We’re going to have another meeting in conjunction with the NANOG. We did this in the third quarter - excuse me, fourth quarter last year. It was very successful. The NANOG portion will be Sunday October 19 to Tuesday, October 21. And ARIN 12 will be Wednesday, October 22 to Friday, October 24. It will be held in Chicago, one of the best cities in the US. One of the things that we’ve done this time is made arrangements with United Airlines. And if you go to our website, you can see information on how you, either as a traveler domestically or international traveler, can get a discount to the meeting. With that I’ll say thank you. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Thank you very much, Ray. A very entertaining presentation as usual. And Ray’s taken us right through to the time for coffee break. If there are no quick questions. Are there any quick questions for Ray or anything? OK, let’s break for coffee. And that’s a half an hour break. We’ll start again at 11am. Thank you.