Annual Member Meeting, Friday 22 Aug, 11:00-1:00 pm PAUL WILSON: OK, we'll get started again. We'll continue with the RIR reports. LACNIC, RIPE NCC, AfriNIC and, at the end of this RIR report section, Anne Lord will be presenting the Internet resource status updates. So we're ready and we'll get started and I'll handed over to German Valdez from LACNIC. GERMAN VALDEZ: Thank you, Paul. Welcome back. My familiar is German Valdez. I am working with LACNIC as a policy liaison. I'm going to do a presentation of the LACNIC reports. As you already know, LACNIC became the fourth RIR after the resolution of ICANN on October 31 and it was confirmed to IANA report in November 7. That's when we started operation with the rest of the RIRs. Regarding to the service region, we serve 29 territories over Latin America and some countries in the Caribbean. I'm talking about the operational model of LACNIC; it is incorporated and is an independent, not-for-profit and bottom-up organisation. It's based on the membership. There are questions regarding the way we operate and, just to be clear, we are based in Montevideo, Uruguay and the establishment of LACNIC is in this country and the headquarters are in Uruguay. However, we have a cooperation with Brazil, outsourcing, where they are given the registration services in coordination, of course, with the headquarters in Montevideo. The LACNIC is currently managing right now two /8s, /23 in IPv6 and a total of 1,056 ASNs. Some of them we are receiving in transition from ARIN and the other part from IANA once LACNIC was recognised. Next, I would like to show you some statistics. In the first line, we have a distribution of the IPv4 per country. We can see that more than half are allocated in Brazil. That is the green area. And the rest are a little more distributed between Mexico, Argentina and Chile. This slide shows the numbers of /24s allocated per month. Since LACNIC has started its operations in November 2001 - and it's important to say that the first year of operation of LACNIC was supervised by ARIN, that was until October 2002 and then we started our operation independently from ARIN, so this slide represents all the amounts of /24s that we have made since the start of operations in November 2001. You can see a big amount in June 2003. That's because LACNIC allocated a big amount of IP addresses to two registry accesses in Brazil and in Mexico. This was not planned to do the allocation to the NIR but that happened. That ruined my slide! This is information regarding the number of allocations. Since we started operations, we have allocated 155 IP blocks. It's important to say also that this information is up to August 15. And the next slides are showing some information about the ASN. This is more better distributed in cooperation with the IP addresses. There is a third part in Brazil, a fifth part in Mexico, Argentina and Chile. This is the amount of ASNs allocated until August 15 and that is 159. That is the distribution of the IPv6 logs. We have four that are allocated in Mexico. That came from the ARIN, when ARIN was administrating the IPv6. That means it's before independence. We have two more allocated in Mexico, that was allocated by LACNIC. That's the difference in the slide. We have more in Brazil allocated by ARIN and one by LACNIC and the last one was one allocated in the Dominican Republic. In this distribution of membership - we have 145 members and almost half of our membership are small ISPs. The next big amount is with medium ISPs. Talking about our meetings, we have held right now four meetings. The last one was in Santiago, Chile. In the next one, it's going to be in Havana in Cuba in November, from 18 to 20 of November and LACNIC VI will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in November next year. Talking a little bit about the results from the last LACNIC meeting in Santiago, Chile, in our member meetings, we adopt new bylaws that were approved by the members. We also adopt an electoral calendar. The members also approved the financial and business management of 2002 and the rights that our members have in our organisation. During the open policy forum, that is open to anybody who wants to attend, who have any kind of interest in the administration and resources in Latin America, we are adopting new policies in bulk Whois, IPv6 microallocations and also microallocations for IPv4 for end users multihomed. Also, we create new working groups from the feedback from the forum. There is a new group that is reviewing the IPv6 policies in Latin America and something similar is happening right now in APNIC. And also a working group is reviewing the process and the templates of the LACNIC. And also, a new one regarding the referral of Whois. There were two working groups that got consensus to continue their work in new advances and new proposals during the meeting in Cuba. These are the experimental allocations and lame delegations. It's something that is also having wider discussion right now in APNIC. Also in this region, we are discussing right now a policy development process. This document is on the website. We are in discussions. Thus, after we have the recognition from IANA - ICANN, we start operating with the ARIN and that's when we start to take shape and customise this policy with the needs of our own region. All the materials of the results and the discussions of the last meeting in Santiago is on our website. Here you also have two public lists. One is for policy discussions and the other is for announcements in general. We have this amount of subscribers, it's a good number. Right now, we are, doing the policy development and right now we are discussing eight working groups. They represent proposals that amount to discussions during our next meetings, they are lame delegations, IPv6 policies for Latin America, experimental allocations, some things that I've already mentioned. Also, the policy development process is under review during the LACNIC meetings. Also, we have training, training sessions. We are - we plan six training sessions for this year. We already have one in Argentina, one in Chile, one in Uruguay and the next is going to be in Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba. We are trying to reach all customers, all our members all over the region. Talking about our engineering projects. We have electronic voting system. That's already done and we are going to use this for the next board member elections. This election's going to be previous of the next meeting in Cuba. We have also data warehousing projects. That was launched this week. We have received very good response from the community. I would like to invite you to review these systems. There is an example where you can find. This is statistic information of the region of LACNIC. You can see the distributions to the users. And, if we can change it per country. Oh, no, it's not connected. I forgot I am not online right now. I didn't want to receive any strange messages from my friends during my presentation! But this is, OK, I'm back. You can change, for example, the X label from date to country. I can change also the resources per member per country. I can change also the way that the group is shown, like, for example, pie. This is available on our website. We have two versions. One is based on web and the other is based on Java. The system Java is much more powerful than the web-based system and you can access both ways through our website. This information is embedded in our databases so you can trust this information. We have received very good feedback from the community once we launched it this week. I would like to review and send any comments that you have. We also have lame delegations reviewing. We don't have any policy. This is only for informational basis. And also, you can review this information online. This shows the percentage of DNS s. That is OK. The graph only shows those DNS that has any kind of volumes regarding to the answer of the request for the DNS. This is also reviewed daily and it's available on our website. We have also the statistic file from LACNIC on the ftp server. This is done and, regarding to all system development, we create new POCs to the member for invoicing. We have an invoice system agreed on and we are working on an account tracking system for customers. This is the engineering activities and projects. The general activities. We are fully involved in the RIR committees, the ASO reform, the IANA policies. We are going deeply with the IETF activities. We participate in many regional forums. We are increasing relationships with the governments of Latin America and the regulators and other stakeholders. We believe that is an important job to do in order to make an outreach and make that the people in some countries know when there is something new in Latin America. We are cooperating with other RIRs. We proudly organised an AfriNIC workshop in Montevideo. The intention of this workshop was to offer to AfriNIC or acknowledge that we were in the process of recognition. We have very good supporting from the other RIRs and I think it was a very successful meeting. We are still looking for new activity with AfriNIC and other RIRs. We have a staff exchange program in all the areas - business, registration services, policy, memberships, etc. We have two agreements with the National Internet Registry in Latin America. The one in Brazil is doing the service for registration and we think Mexico is also happy with the training and outreach activity and also, once CLARA is doing advance projects of the universities in Latin America. We have projects also in IDRC. We are working in a joint fund for supporting researchers related with LACNIC matters of interest - the establishment of Internet primarily. It's very important cooperation we have. This is our new facilities, this is our office in Montevideo. It's across from the beach, half a block maybe. We have also a technical TPA/ SEUPLT/s in Brazil that are hosted from NIC Brazil and we have a high-speed connection between the two places. Even though we are separated, we are planning on coordinating with the facility in Brazil. We have had a track system that allows us to know the progress of any requests. So any person who is in Montevideo or Sao Paolo can answer any questions from any customer. We are still a small family so I can present some of them. Our CEO is Raúl Echeberría. Ricardo Patara is the service manager. Adriana is in charge of member services. Paula is the administrative area. Pablo is the technical support engineer and Lucas is our webmaster. I have to apologise because I was very worried in preparing this presentation and taking account of the important issues and the slides were updated and I forgot to put my own photography here. I only have three weeks working as a staff of LACNIC. I did work before in activities but I only have three weeks working. I think today is my third week and I forgot to put my picture but you have me here so I think it's better! And we have also the photograph for the engineering team. They work also for LACNIC as part of the agreement of cooperation we have with NIC Brazil. This is, right now, we are eight persons. I'm including myself in this amount. And the engineering team are six persons. And that's all. Thank you. Obrigado and Gracias. This is English and the languages of LACNIC. I'm happy to receive any questions or comments. No? PAUL WILSON: Thanks very much. Next up is Axel from RIPE NCC. I'm sure some of you have seen German at previous meetings. He's been an employee of NIC Mexico for some time but he's moved to the bottom of South America to work with LACNIC which is quite a journey. Also regarding LACNIC, we will be looking forward to welcoming Ricardo to APNIC later in the year, because he'll be doing an exchange with the intention of sharing ideas about the hostmaster registration services areas. So now it's over to Axel for RIPE NCC. AXEL PAWLIK: This is the update from RIPE NCC. You may recall my presentation from February in Taiwan. I also give the update on the Dutch weather. As you might have heard, we have had a tremendous summer in Europe this year and still continuing. It says +44. This is not from Holland. It was very, very hot. This says in Dutch, "It's very dry in the Netherlands and we have record low water positions." This is automatically done. As you all know, a picture says more than a 1000 words. This is what it looks like! As an update of the RIPE NCC I'm going to quickly run through the 93 employees we have. Not. We have an executive board that guides me and the management team. Those are the five guys. Three of them are up for renewal at elections in two weeks time. We have myself, you know that guy. We have a chief technical officer. I'm showing you the faces so you can talk to them if you see them during one of these meetings. You have the chief financial officer who looks after the numbers. He makes sure that we don't go bankrupt quickly. We have the head of member services and communications. We also have a Chief Scientist who basically advises me and my management team on history as it was before us and also on strategic issues. Now to the serious stuff, what have we been doing over the last few months, the registration services. We are somewhat proud to say that we have a very steady response time to allow for resource requests for over a year. It's two days or slightly less. We are now focusing very much on improving the overall response time, the resolution time in terms of the time it takes for you to - for our members to get their results and we have statistics and they currently say it's about 90% of resources granted within eight days and most of them within three to four days. This can be improved. Very important is that we have changed our policy with regard to telephone contact ... we don't really want to get into voice contact with our members because they speak all these different languages, we can't keep up with that. We only will accept e-mail. We have changed that now. We have a callback service. What is happening right now is that our staff is looking at requests that take a little bit longer than usual and might be problematic and we take the initiative and call out to our members and try to resolve those issues. What we have on the horizon is a telephone help desk where everybody can call in and be dealt with immediately. That is quite intensive with regard to staffing so we are careful to do that not too quickly and make arrangement so we can deal with it efficiently when the time comes. The most visible policy update is that we have split the local IR working group. No-one knows exactly what it is really and it would be good if we have a policy group. We have decided to make it extra clear. Now we have a policy working group that deals only with results policy and we have also a RIPE NCC services working group that deals with RIPE NCC services, levels, quality of services and related things. We have, again, over the last time, produced a draft document on IPv4 policy that is available on the website. We have produced a document that validates the staff review that we are working very closely with APNIC on. In terms of a membership services, we have further worked on the LIR portal that is something equivalent I would say to MyAPNIC for the RIPE NCC members. We have a typo. We have simplified resource request forms and who didn't spot the typo? These are forms that calculate some numbers, make it easier for our members to fill them in and only ask for the relevant questions for the resources that are being applied for. Also as a protective health function, we are working on improving them even more. We have an allocation editor on this local IR portal so this can update on inetnum objects without having to go to hostmasters and we see already great uptake on this service. We see that the hostmasters are less stressed out, have less to do with these relatively simple tasks. We have a proposal out - we'll talk about that later. We use certificates to have our members look into the site. We have a number of various tools to make it easier for our members to deal with the resources - that's available for download. That's the website. As you know, we also run with name servers. We have some exciting developments there. As I said, the last time, we were looking into anycasting that would serve the K root server as an Amsterdam instance - the main machine was located in London. Now we have a copy at Amsterdam that is working and we are looking at how to continue the service. We want to spread the k.root-server somewhat more and we are carefully developing the requests that are coming into the host nameserver and I've talked to Paul already. If there's any interest in the APNIC region to host one of these, we look forward to speaking to you. We have a web site under k.root- servers.org that has routing information. Statistics are available there. You're welcome to have a look at it. Also, very important new step that we have been taking is in regard to membership liaison. We have learned that a number of our members are not quite sure of what we are really doing and they are looking for more contact with us. So we have opened the position of a membership liaison officer and we have staffed it already with Sabrina Wilmott. The idea is to liaise closely with our members, especially on a regional basis where we go out to our members in a regional meeting to get to know them better, to get to know their issues they have, problems they have in the area with governments and similar things. So we want to help our members better in the area, but also have another channel then for feedback from our members to us to learn the things that we should be looking at. The first project here, the first very exciting project is to have one of these regional meetings, a pilot basically, in December this year in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It's a 2-day workshop basically talking about what is right with RIPE NCC, how does the governance look, do IPv4 addresses run out quickly next year or not? Basically these things. We are looking forward to receiving input from those guys. Then we are going out and seeking information from our members. We seek input from members. That goes to Sabrina's mailbox and she makes sure all things are dealt with. She also supports the RIPE NCC services working group and she is available at RIPE meetings. That is another staffing position that looks after our area coordination so we make sure that we have enough resources available to do this. Then, we have, for next year in our activity plan, a section that is called information services. That's also as new twist on something old, basically. We have always been collecting data at the RIPE NCC for all of time of our existence. That started at the hostcount for Europe. We have done measurements, specific measurements. We have the working information service. There is a host of data available. Now we have to do something with it properly. So far, we have worked on a technical and academic level. We have seen that this is, first of all, at times difficult to understand what we are doing there and also it's slightly controversial in regard to our members. Some of them want us to do registration services and nothing else. It's controversial. What we have done, we have published a paper, RIPE 271, that is called "RIPE NCC Hostcount in the 21st century". We propose that we don't do measurements for host user groups any more, [but] we continue these activities in general as RIPE NCC is the ideal place to do these. The results, as I said, should be made public and also they should be targeted to specific recipients, not only to the members in our area and our community but also to people outside of that community, for instance journalists, regulators and governments. Basically, we want to establish the RIPE NCC as the trusted place within our service region of the Internet about information of the operation of the Internet to better deal with imminent services, with people being spammed to death, stuff like that. We have a few other changes in this area. The central entry point for all statistics maintained by the RIPE NCC and the formatting of this information so that it's very understandable to specific target audiences. We have also now myASN. It gives you information about the open system, how it is seen on the Internet, that feature has been added to the routing information system. As I said, TTM, the measurement service will become an open service, not only subscriber-based with private information. We have added and we are continuing to do now DNS monitoring. We are also offering this to the CCT in our service region. We have just had a very nice article in the press about one of the problems with Austria Telecom. They tried to tell the problem that this is CCT and we said, "We didn't have a problem because we have these measurements taken by an independent, the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam." That will become a very interesting service for those people. The incident response team will be looking at data on the Internet, for instance about the worms that are going around - we have heard a bit about them here - possible attacks on services. We are measuring things and putting together. Rather quickly, that information will be made available. As I said earlier, we are looking at certificates for use for the RIPE NCC LIRs. For instance, getting linked to the portal services but also we are looking at other services to be made available through authentication through X.509 and we have to very clearly say what we want to do and who we are targeting [with] this. There was some confusion already and there was a question at the last RIPE meeting. Do we want to become a certification authority? Do we want to make the certificates available for everybody out there or just very targeted to our members? Currently, we say this is for our members only and we focus on services for our members and after that, we see how the uptake is and how we develop over the next few years. Developments in the database section - we have the new updates ready with nice more explanatory messages in terms of error or other things, we have the cleanup ongoing for unreferenced objects in the database. We began at the end of May and we have gotten rid of a third of those objects in the database, down to 300,000 by now and we are continuing to work on RPSL, next generation. We have prototypes running. They are not quite up to the IETF standard yet but it's a work in progress. Services for clients and servers are also available from our website. As you know, RIPE NCC is a membership organisation and I want to give you some broad administrative updates from here. The membership developments that we are seeing for this year are very promising. After last year's crisis in terms of membership developments, we did make a nice loss last year, we didn't have as many members as we had planned for. This year's turning round again. We have more members coming in. As we thought, goes up and down all the time. We have surpassed expectations for the complete year. We will make a surplus by the end of the year very, very likely. That will go back into the reserves that we have. Also, we are proposing to change our membership categories and billing categories and we are going after the APNIC model here from XS to XL, five categories. We will see how that is accepted. We expect it to be approved as we have seen also from our members in a survey that something like that would be appreciated. We have changes proposed to the Articles of Association of RIPE NCC with the intent to create more flexibility. As I have observed at the APNIC meetings, Paul and the APNIC is basically updating the members in the budget but there is no real strong feedback mechanism as we have had and still have at RIPE NCC - once a year we have to present our budget for the next year and we have our membership approve it. We have the activity plan where we say which activities we want to do for the next year. This needs to be approved once a year. After that, we become slightly inflexible. We have to run with this budget and charging scheme, we have to move those activities. We can add things without calling for an extraordinary general meeting. That always sounds a little bit like a crisis so we don't want to do this. What we propose is to give the RIPE NCC executive board some more freedom in that they are responsible for the budget over the year so they can make small changes. The membership fees and charging scheme we let sit in the hands of our members so it needs to be approved once a year. Currently, we have three different categories with different voting rights attached to them. Now that we have a different billing category set, we have been advised by our lawyers that we can't have the general meeting vote to change the voting rights at the general meeting. That's sort of recursive, it shouldn't be done. We take the membership categories as we have done now. We have simple voting rights - every member gets one vote. That will be discussed and hopefully approved at the general meeting which will be adjacent to the next upcoming RIPE meeting which is two weeks time actually. Very exciting days. The budget for the next year will be more or less the same as it is now. It will grow by 4% or so. That is due to a very conservative assessment of the bad debts that we have. The FTE count, the number of people that we are employing, will be stable at about 93. This is what we have now. This is what we are planning for next year also. We have said that this is less than we had budgeted for this year already. We are over the hump. We have had to take on a number of new people to get rid of the work but we are working more efficiently now already and we would see that that happens and continues over the next years. So we see from now a steady plan for a steady natural shrinkage of staff. As I said, with increasing services and basic service levels. It's important to say that. Then, as I said, the next RIPE meeting is coming up, number 46. It will be in Amsterdam. As you see, there is still some water left in the canals in Amsterdam. It's worth coming anyway. It looks very romantic at night and we'll have interesting meetings during the day. You're very welcome to come. PAUL WILSON: The next report will be from Ernest from Africa. Are there any questions for Axel? I'll open for questions again at the end of these reports. So think about it if you'd like to ask any particular question. This will be a report from Ernest on the latest developments in Africa. AfriNIC is of course referred to as an emerging RIR so there is not officially an RIR for the AfriNIC region yet but there are quite a few people working hard on getting the RIR formally established and so it will be formally recognised through the ICANN process. ERNEST BYARUHANGA: My name is Ernest Byaruhanga and I work for AfriNIC, but currently I'm based in RIPE NCC in Amsterdam Netherlands. I work as a hostmaster with other staff who I work with in RIPE NCC. This is a brief status report about AfriNIC which will cover the past events and maybe 2000, 2001, 2002 and then events that happened in 2003 and upcoming events in 2003. AfriNIC in full - that is African Network Information Center. It's the emerging Regional Internet Registry for the African region and it covers Africa as a continent, parts of the Indian Ocean region, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius. These are four islands in the Indian Ocean who are close to Africa on the eastern side. The official members of AfriNIC are expected to come from the RIPE NCC and ARIN. That is where maybe half of the official members come [from], with ARIN having about 60 as already shown by Ray and RIPE NCC has about 180 as of now. APNIC, there is about, I think, one member or two. I'm not very sure of this. So all these will become African members after AfriNIC is established and recognised by the ICANN as an RIR. About the staffing in AfriNIC, as already said, the official staff at AfriNIC are right now only two - that is myself and Adiel Akplogan from Togo. Adiel is also right now at the RIPE NCC. We also have a board of trustees who are distributed through the whole of the African region with Nii Quaynor as the chairman of the board and the rest are as you can see. The support from the other RIRs, as already said - LACNIC organised the emerging RIR workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay. In this, the LACNIC RIR formation process was reviewed for AfriNIC to pick [up] a few points here and there on how we can start the RIR. ARIN has also issued a statement of support (which is available on the website) for registration, training and technical matters, transition and any other help that they can offer. Also there has been training of hostmasters, which will help the AfriNIC and also to assist AfriNIC in any other business, technical and so on. So all these documents are available on the AfriNIC website. Now, the previous activities we've had are listed. There have been various meetings here and there. In 2000, there was a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, where the board of trustees was elected and the agreement with RIPE NCC was incubation - it wasn't signed but it was agreed that RIPE NCC takes AfriNIC for incubation. Another meeting was in Gambia in 2000. That was a presentation to the African telecom and ISP community. Also in this meeting there was a support and willingness to support AfriNIC in the community - a lot of support was realised. In Ghana in 2001, there was an annual general meeting where a new board was elected. In Cairo, Egypt, in January 2002, there was also another board meeting, where the incorporation plan was adopted. And a board member, Yann Kwok was designated to conclude MoU with RIPE NCC. Also, it was said that an official advertisement for a senior hostmaster position [be released]. In Lome, Togo in 2002, an agreement was signed with RIPE NCC for the training of a hostmaster. And ARIN gave a statement of support for the AfriNIC formation process, which is also on the website. There was a report from the AfriNIC interim secretariat, which is based in Ghana, with the board chairman, the one in charge of the secretariat. This report showed support from the local community. It's also available on the website. The last meeting was - it's not the last meeting – [the last] normal meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2002 where most of the staffing discussions were held, the hostmasters were hired and we have two of them now. So, in 2003, that is this year, a lot of activities Happened, including the starting of the training at the RIPE NCC which started In May. I started there in May. Four proposals were received, actually five proposals - South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Egypt and a joint proposal from Ghana, Uganda and Senegal. In June, the selection of the hosting countries was done via consensus from the applicants, AfriNIC had to split in four locations with a training centre in Ghana, the administrative centre in Mauritius, the technical operations in South Africa and the backup and recovery centre in Egypt. More activities in 2003 - the emerging RIR workshop in Montevideo as already discussed. There was also in June an AfNOG meeting in Kampala. In this meeting they decided to be present to help in outreach for the local community. Many telcos were present. A meeting was held and, as always with compromises, the solution did not meet 100% of everyone's expectations. However, it was agreed that all parties present found the proposal to be an acceptable and workable one. Also in July, we prepared an activity report and sent it to ICANN. I hope ICANN received it. The upcoming activities so far for this year is the AfriNIC AGM, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Various RIRs will be sending representatives to the meeting. There will be a session intended to provide a forum where local Internet registries from around Africa will be able to ask questions and raise issues of concern. There will be some discussions about policies, transition from ARIN/RIPE and any other business and, of course, this will be an ISPA Internet week. We intend to do some outreach in the community. The full agenda is available on the website. More of the upcoming activities - we intend to get letters of support from the community in Africa, because one of the ICANN's requirements for a new RIR is to demonstrate support from the community. Right now, not much support is documented and someone from the board is working on this. The training is ongoing at RIPE NCC and more of the activities will be registration of AfriNIC as a legal entity. It is apparently registered in Ghana but I think that has to change because of big repercussions. Policies adopted after the annual general meeting. And then the technical transition to AfriNIC operations - all of this will be in 2004 next year. We intend to work closely with ARIN and RIPE, especially for test beds and data migration. After all that is done, AfriNIC will apply for recognition as an RIR from the ICANN. Hopefully that will be in mid-2004. If anybody is interested in joining a discussion group for after this, you can send a blank e-mail to this address. So that's it. Is there any questions? PAUL WILSON: Thank you, Ernest, a very interesting and comprehensive report from AfriNIC. It's interesting to see the range of activities that are going on there towards the goal of finally establishing AfriNIC which I'm sure we'll all be very glad to see. I think we'll keep moving on with the reports. This is a report which is often presented in different forums. RIR meetings. Other forums. It represents a global comparison, a comparative report which is being circulated to improve general understanding of what the RIRs do. ANNE LORD: Thanks for that introduction. Good morning. My name's Anne Lord. Yeah. This graph is basically an overview of the entire IPv4 address space broken down by /8 and you can see that four RIRs themselves combine to use up 39 /8s. IANA counts for 9 /8s and the central registry has 94 /8s. The multicast has 16 /8s. This graph gives you an overview of IPv4 allocations made by the RIRs to the LIRs and ISPs on a yearly basis. If you look at the data for 2003, you can see that APNIC has allocated roughly around 1 /8 so far. The data is up to June 30. It's only half way through the year. For ARIN, they've allocated slightly over half, LACNIC around /12 and the RIPE NCC around two-thirds of the /8. I think the growth rate is probably consistent with those of the previous years. Not too much going up or down, really. In terms of accumulative total of the data that's been allocated by the RIRs, ARIN accounts of 36%, RIPE NCC 30%, APNIC 32%, and LACNIC has around 2%. In terms of trends, it seems like the longer established RIRs are converging on the amount of allocations they're making in the respective regions. This is a view of the ASN assignments made from the RIRs. I think what's clear from this graph is its quite big differences in each of the RIR regions. So far in 2003, APNIC has made around 250 assignments, ARIN has made just short of 1,000. LACNIC has made 100 and RIPE NCC 600. In terms of cumulative total of all of the assignments made from the RIRs to LIRs, the dominance of ARIN is quite clear - around 55% of the total. RIPE NCC 25%, APNIC 13% and LACNIC 3%. In terms of IPv6 allocations, we don't have as much data here but it starts from 1999. So, in 2003 so far this year APNIC has made 20 allocations, ARIN has made 30, LACNIC's made three, and the RIPE NCC 36, I believe, up to June. And in terms of totals again of that portion, the RIPE NCC has made the most allocations, 53.1%, APNIC 28.1%, LACNIC 2.5% and ARIN 16.3%. And just in terms of totals overall, this is broken down by economy as of June 30. The top five countries are listed. Japan with 59, US 54, Germany, Netherlands and the UK following. And the remainder of the other countries is 205. And that total was 397 as of June 30. So all of this data is available on the website. The individual RIR starts are there. And that's it. Thank you. PAUL WILSON: Thanks. OK, would there be any questions on the RIR reports? I have a question, in fact, or a comment which is about the comparative figures which were given on response time. And it might be a little confusing. Response time in the resource training services area. There may be some confusion in that quite radically different figures are given. In the case of RIPE NCC response time, in the case of ARIN, an average response time of 1.6 days, was it? Approximately. That is the response time to an individual query or an individual request, rather than the completion time for a requests. Is that correct? RAY PLZAK: That's true. It's also possible if a simple request came in, you could have an allocation that fast too. PAUL WILSON: You can have a response in that time exactly. APNIC hasn't reported on average response times. Our current services response time across the helpdesk and the resource services target is one day and we meet that most times. The average is slightly higher than one day. It acts on the total completion time of 90% under eight days which means, I assume, an average per email transaction response time, which is substantially less. That was one item I noticed in terms of the RIR reports. Are there any other questions on RIR reports. We're ahead of time which is unusual. We can continue with some more of the reports which were scheduled for later in the afternoon. And I think we'll leave the... let me display the agenda - but I think we'll leave the SIG reports until after lunch and Kenny Huang has agreed that he's happy to present the address council report which was one of those initial reports scheduled for this afternoon. Is that right? The transcript created by the stenographers this morning are already up on the website and the reports they create today will go up on the website shortly. OK, Kenny Huang, a member of the ASO address council for the Asia Pacific. KENNY HUANG: Good morning. My name is Kenny Huang, Address Council member from the Asia Pacific meeting and I'm going to give some updated information. Thank you for your attention. Just some updates since the Shanghai ICANN meeting. Also, open- forum ICANN meeting and ASO General Assembly held in Santiago, Chile in April this year. There's some major changes to the Address Council especially regarded to ICANN reform issues. There's ongoing activity for the ICANN reform and soon will be done, we hope it will soon be done and OK, ICANN nominations committee and Address Council members in nomination committees. Also, formalise Address Council process, with regard to how to select chair and co-chair and how to select a board member from ICANN. That's the basic introduction regarding to ASO Address Council. For the Address Council, there are three representatives from each IR region. We do not represent RIR directly. That is selected from public forum. AC nominees are not necessarily an RIR member. Everyone can participate in elections, it’s not limited to RIR members. And the role of the Address Council would be changing to meet the new challenges, basically to meet the ICANN reform process and to adopt a new ICANN structure. Before the introduction to the Address Council member - from APNIC region, there's Takashi Arano-San, also Kenny Huang, myself, Seung-Min Lee will be stepping down and a new Address Council member will be in place. From ARIN region, Eric Decker and Mark McFadden, who is the chair, and also Kim Hubbard from the ARIN region. From LACNIC region, we have Raimundo Beca and Hartmut Glaser and Julian Dunayevich. From RIPE region, we have Hans Petter Holen, Jabine Jaume and Wilfried Woeber. We continue to observe progress in the establishment of AfriNIC as a new RIR. Regarding to other activities from ISO Address Council and especially establishing a standard process for nomination. We are establishing a standard process for nominating representatives to the nomination committee of ICANN. Also discussion is ongoing to review RFC 2050 and its current relation to active policy. They can go to the mailing list for discussion. Address Council for working on new structure for international participation. We are considering electronic voting to promote international participation. Also the chair has circulated a road map document to the AC for 2003. You can visit the website for updated document information. Also, we held a workshop in Amsterdam in January of this year. Address Council is also working with RIR on ICANN reform process discussions and also stand ready to facilitate/work with RIRs and evolution reform committee in negotiation for a new MoU in the reform environment. RIRs have asked for formal input from Address Council. Address Council has met informally with ICANN evolution reform committee members. Two Address Council principle documents have been published. This is survey on reform process in Address Council members. ASO Address Council members conducted a survey among its members on reform and the relationship between the RIRs and ICANN. The results are from a very small but representative part of the community. Here I'm going to put a sample of these results. Here is the reform survey part one. 100% of the respondents said that the reform should continue to be an ASO Address Council issue. When asked about the role of the ASO Address Council organisation 100% said it would elect ICANN board members, it would elect ICANN nomination committee and it should advise ICANN on global addressing issues and 100% Address Council members said it should coordinate global addressing policy development. The second part of the reform survey, not much agreement on the size of ASO. 50% of members say it's not SIG issue. So the size of ASO is not really a big issue and 87% say that the RIR community should elect either two or three ASO members and also 67% Address Council members say the RIR boards should elect one member to the Address Supporting Organisation. 10% say the ICANN nominating committee should have a role. To the final part of the reform survey - agreed to electronic voting and agreed to the concept of temporary observers during the ASO tele-conference and they always have invited observer to participate. For nomination committee, ICANN has a nominations committee to nominate people to the ICANN board of directors. Address Council is responsible for ... and election took place in February this year and we hope, fortunately, we have German to sit in the nomination committee. OK. Any questions or comments? PAUL WILSON: To recap on where we are in the agenda, we have 15 minutes left before the lunch break. We've completed the RIR-related reports and the Address Council report. We may be able to actually move the MyAPNIC demonstration ahead. I'd like to just go back to the Address Council election, because the voting will close in - the voting for the Address Council election will close at 12:30 and I did want to offer the local candidate, Mr Kwon, the chance to speak if he's been able to make it. Does anyone know if he's been able to make it to the meeting venue? OK. Well, I think we will need to close the voting at 12:30 or at least before we break for lunch. In the meantime, let's have the MyAPNIC demonstration. This is to demonstrate particularly to the members but to anyone who is interested what services are going to be available with the new generation, the new version of the MyAPNIC service. Sanjaya who is the project manager for this project is going to give the presentation. SANJAYA: Thank you. My name is Sanjaya. I'm the project manager for MyAPNIC. I'm going to give you all a brief project update of MyAPNIC and then proceed with the demonstration of the new version, 1.2. PAUL WILSON: Sorry to interrupt you Mr Kwon is available to talk before the election closes. I'm sorry to interrupt Sanjaya, but let's hear from Hyun-joon Kwon who is one of the candidates for the Address Council election. HYUN-JOON KWON: Ladies and gentlemen, it's 20 minutes past 12 so good afternoon right now. Today, I'm the candidate for the ASO and I'm working for Korea Network Information Center. Firstly, I am very happy to be here and then also thank you for having this great chance. Actually, my background is about law and then I have a BA, MA and JD. Everything is about - I have a law degree. I was involved in the Domain- name Dispute Resolution Committee first and then I was involved in the ICANN activities for three years. And right now I'm the member... I arrived about 30 minutes ago and I'm not prepared for the speech. On behalf of the organisation, we are very eager to contribute our time and our knowledge to the APNIC and also to the Internet resources development. If you give us a chance to contribute our activities, including me and our organisation, we'll be ready to join and to act really aggressively and thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) PAUL WILSON: Thank you very much. So just a reminder that the candidate details are provided on the form which everyone should have. We'll close the ballot box at the end of this session when the break for lunch happens, whether that's at 12:30 or slightly after but, in case anyone was needing to vote before 12:30, it was necessary to provide that opportunity. So let's move on to the MyAPNIC - I think I've been saying version 1.1 but in fact it's 1.2 that we're talking about here and Sanjaya will continue with the presentation and we'll get that done before the lunch break maybe. Thank you. SANJAYA: Right, so I'm going to show you the concept of MyAPNIC and the features existing in 1.1 and then show you what is new in version 1.2. The demo will be on version 1.2 which is already installed in our system. MyAPNIC is a public server - I mean it's not a public server, it can only be accessed by an APNIC member of staff. It is outside of the firewall and it gives access to our internal system which at the moment is in these three systems, the financial system, the membership and resource system and the master Whois server. When a member accesses https://myapnic.net, this moves the server down to the browser. In a normal scenario, this is enough to establish... but, in MyAPNIC, we require the client to also submit a certificate. So it's a double lock, basically, that we have here. Only then would the SSL be established. Based on the client certificate, we know the profile of the person that is using MyAPNIC, the member ID, the person, what authority he has over the data and then, based on that, collects all the necessary information and sends it down to the client's browser. So what we have in version 1.1 is quite a complete set of information about your membership. The most important, of course, is the resource information, what IPv4, IPv6 and A number that you hold. Also important is the administration information that gives you the billing history and membership details. Training, which is normally important for your human resource department, to track who has gathered which training at which APNIC meeting and some other facilities. The version 1.2 that we have just installed gives us more facility in the resource management area, which allows you actually to update your IPv4 and IPv6 as well as ASN number through MyAPNIC. So I'm going to MyAPNIC website now. We are fortunate that one of our large members, APJII, which is an NIR from Indonesia, allows me to show their information here. What you are going to see is basically a resource owned by an NIR. So the resources would be quite large. It's not typical for an APNIC member, but it gives you the complete picture of all the resources, all the types of facilities that you can have. So the administration is quite simple. This gives your membership details, which you can, of course, edit, if you change address or telephone number. Of course, you have to be a corporate contact to change these. Not all people can change it, only a corporate contact. Here is the contact details of your organisation and their role. You can change that. This is your billing history. All the incompetent voices and the payments that we have received and also the outstanding balance will be shown there. The training history gives your participation in all APNIC events basically, not just training but also the open policy meetings. Obviously, they have been involved for quite some time with APNIC so they have sent quite a few people to different events done by APNIC. The resources is the most interesting area. The other thing is not interesting but I think being the custodian of an Internet resource is about managing your resource. So bear with me on this screen because this is a big member, so it has to download quite a big map of all the allocations that this member has with all the allocations shown by the colour bar. The darker, the colour, the higher the implementation. There are IPv4, IPv6 and a lot of AS numbers which are assigned to the members. The new feature in version 1.2 actually allows you to just click any one of the objects that interests you and it will come up with an editing - Whois editing screen this will be updated in the Whois database. As I also mentioned earlier, we have a new object type that can be seen in MyAPNIC and that is the reverse DNS. So, for every IPv4 blocks that you've been allocated, there's a reverse DNS button on the right that, if you click, then you will basically see all the reverse DNS records that you have in APNIC Whois database. Which, of course, you can click and edit. Making new assignments is also quite straightforward. Just look into your resources block. If you want to make - if this is unused, you want to make an assignment here you just click on that block and then you're basically presented with a list of objects that create a new assignment. And you're presented with a template for you to add, of course with a reminder in this case of your assignment window that you're not supposed to add larger blocks that your assignment window. If you want to do it larger than your assignment window then a link to the second opinion process is provided. That's the highlight of my presentation. I'm not going to go into too much detail because, obviously, what I actually want is for you all to register to use MyAPNIC and send an e-mail if you need help. We already get in this meeting some input from our members. They - particularly from the large members - they want to have an upload and download facilities for updates and we will definitely provide it in our next release. It's not a difficult thing to do. Right? PAUL WILSON: OK. Are there any questions for Sanjaya about MyAPNIC? George? GEORGE MICHAELSON: Hi. Just wanted to say briefly that, although we've been running RIPE NCC software to run our Whois platform for some time now, some of the code that we are using in MyAPNIC, which is our own development, is software libraries that we took from RIPE NCC and they've worked very well in our environment and I think it's quite a nice example of collaborative work between the RIRs. This is are a really nice technical development and, if you are a large enough member that you potentially have international membership of more than one RIR, this means the software you're using to maintain resources is much more consistent in the systems now so this is a very good development for us. PAUL WILSON: Thanks and credit to RIPE NCC and to the APNIC staff involved. We've got people on the technical front, the hostmaster front and of course the web team who are working. John? JOHN H'NG: Just also like to remind everyone that the MyAPNIC demo has been running for the whole week. It's at the registration centre, so, if you have a chance today during lunchtime, it's only a 10-minute demo so, if you can hang around and have a look at the running demo if you are into MyAPNIC. Thank you. PAUL WILSON: Any more questions or comments? If not, then we'll break for lunch. Oh. Philip. It looks like a network health update. PHILIP SMITH: We have two worm-infected laptops. 6.197 which I mentioned before the break is still infected. Please go and fix it because you won't have Internet access until you do and 6.71 appeared about 20 minutes ago on the network. Either it's somebody who just arrived or somebody who has just been infected. PAUL WILSON: I assume the infected computers have the possibility of infecting others. PHILIP SMITH: I assume everybody else has been suitably patched. The Microsoft patch has only been out for two months. People should be running the Windows update by default. PAUL WILSON: The ballot box will close any minute now so, if you haven't posted your ballot paper for the AC election, please do that right now because it will close and, after it closes, there'll be no chance to submit your ballot paper. For those people who have generously volunteered their time in counting the votes this afternoon, perhaps you could meet at the back of the room before lunch just to coordinate your efforts. I'm sure there will be time for you to do the counting in this election without missing lunch. Thanks very much. The lunch break is scheduled for one hour. That is until 1:30 pm. I'd say because we're running a little late, we should be back here at 1:45. OK? Thank you. does this mean RIRs? resource?