______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT APNIC Member Meeting Friday 9 September 2005 11.00am ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: OK, let's start again. The agenda for the rest of the morning (refers to slide). We have some reporting from APNIC, including from myself, the general APNIC status report, the EC report. We have RIR reports from our colleagues in the other regions. We're running a little over time, I think we'll be able to do a bit of an agenda shuffle if any of us cannot fit in this morning. This afternoon should be able to accommodate that. Regarding the Number Council election, I'm told that there are plenty of people who haven't got ballot papers, so you can pick up ballot papers at the desk for that election. I'll explain the procedure just before lunch because voting will close after lunch. OK, so I'd like to give you a brief update on APNIC's status. Starting first with APNIC membership, which is actually accelerating in growth a little bit. Up to nearly 1,100 members, and you can see here that the monthly growth is being maintained at quite a consistent level these days of around just under 20 a month. The rate of cancellations is still ongoing. TheyÕre cancellations due to mergers and acquisitions in most cases. But the ongoing slide acceleration in membership growth seems quite healthy for the immediate future. Resource status - healthy again, I think, is the rate of IPv4 address assignment. We've so far in 2005 - this is to the end of August - have allocated just more than we allocated in all of 2004. So the ongoing increase in the rate of allocation is quite here there. Whether or not that's actually healthy is up to you. It certainly indicates a healthy level of growth in the region. The chart here does show the different economies receiving significant quantities of IPv4 addresses here and, as you see, mainland China, Japan, South Korea are featuring prominently there. It's a little bit of a change from last year in terms of the proportions of allocations, as they're being made. Another way to look at that is to look at the total address holdings of various economies. Japan has more addresses from APNIC than any other economy at this time, but that's fairly closely followed by mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan. It's interesting to look at how we are going on a global level. This is actually an illustration of all the allocations that have been made of /8 blocks at the IANA level since 1983. And, at the peak of its activity, IANA allocated 16 address blocks in 1991. We're sort of rapidly approaching the same level of annual allocations. So far, the RIRs collectively have received 13 address blocks this year. And so you can see clearly an acceleration there, which is definitely impacting on the projections that people are doing about the lifetime of IPv4. You see for the first time an AfriNIC allocation there in 2005 as well. That's just at the bottom of that bar for the current year. I use this chart quite often to show in one sense the success of the RIR system, in that all of these green bars on the right-hand side of the chart represent RIR address consumption and that includes, of course, the entire dotcom boom and the vast majority of Internet growth that has brought us to where we are today. The large amount of allocation by IANA in the orange bars was, of course, supporting a pretty small Internet at that time. OK, moving on to IPv6, it's very early days, I think everyone knows, with IPv6 allocations. And what we see here is that only three economies have received any of the substantial allocations that have been made more recently by APNIC, primarily as allocations of v6 space to v4 infrastructure. There are only two such allocations in Japan, one in Korea, one in Australia. And the chart here shows numbers in a unit of /32. So, on the left-hand side, you see three economies with relatively large quantities of IPv6 and on the right-hand side, you see a bunch of economies with collectively a total relatively small amount of IPv6 and they represent numbers of /32 allocations - basically is the minimum allocation made in each case to individual ISPs. So it's very early days because, of course, with only a handful of the large allocations, this chart will change very dramatically and it's something we need to bear in mind in making any assessments of IPv6 deployment. You'll hear a bit later on today about discussions that have been going on, particularly in the NIR SIG, about the fee structure of that APNIC applies for IPv6 allocations and how some changes to that fee structure a may also help to encourage more - well, in fact, more fair and equitable deployment of v6 in the region. But there'll be more on that later. ASN allocations are a pretty run-of-the-mill straightforward affair in the APNIC region. We've just got a very linear growth of ASN allocations over the years. And by economy, there are three economies with relatively large amounts - AU, JP and KR - followed by CN, HK. This is a relatively small amount of ASN deployment compared with other parts of the world, interestingly. But, as you see from the linear growth there, it's fairly much business as usual in the AP region. OK, moving on to the status of the Secretariat itself, who is APNIC these days? 45 staff, all illustrated here (refers to slide) All of the friendly faces and you've seen quite a few those here at the meeting. That's a fair amount of growth since I started at APNIC in 1998 when there were six of us. But over the last couple of years, as you can see from the chart here, the staff growth is plateauing out, in spite of ongoing projects and allocation activities and so on. So I think the efficiency, the effectiveness of the staff, is increasing. I'm very happy myself with the way the Secretariat is operating these days. In the area of member services, the help desk has been pretty busy, also deploying some new services. As an initiative of the help desk staff themselves, a live chat service was introduced so members can bring up a live chat window and talk by text directly with help desk staff. I had someone comment to me today that it was a great service, that she'd used it several times and was quite amazed that there was always someone there on the end of the line to answer when she wanted to call. So that's a great service. Some good scheduling among the staff to make sure they service calls. They've extended their hours by covering a few of the local public holidays - not all public holidays in Australia, but there are some local holidays that apply to our area of the country and those are being covered by help desk staff these days so that the service is more available to others in the region. And also, although the telephone help desk has been operating for quite some time, it is predominantly used by Australian members and customers, because of - clearly because of cost issues. So VoIP access has been on the agenda for some time. It's at a stage of testing now that we have actually a VoIP gateway which is being used in test mode and working very well. So it's coming quite soon. We've had some staff training with NIRs and we had Dong Yan and Shen Zhi from CNNIC. We're also working with VNNIC after APNIC 20 on some more NIR staff liaison. That's an ongoing process with all of the NIRs. It's a high priority for all APNIC staff. Projects in the member services area include various policy implementation activities. We heard this week, for instance, about the recovery of unused and unrouted IPv4 address space. That's something that, for instance, occupies member services quite heavily. One thing that they are also working on is the process of what's called Ôde-bogonisingÕ new /8 allocations that come from the IANA. And we've found, unfortunately, in spite of certain address blocks never having been publicly used or routed, there have been some usage problems in filters, in some esoteric areas such as registry registrar software, which, in one case at least, refused to implement or to allow registration of domain names corresponding to addresses in a particular /8 which we'd received. So we've got some work to do to reduce the sort of filtering that might exist for whatever historical reason over new /8 blocks that we've received. The other project you've heard a little bit about this week is ICONS, which is being launched. It's the ISP support website, a result, actually, of feedback that we've had and requests that we've had over many years, particularly through the ISP member and stakeholder surveys, where our members have asked for APNIC to take advantage of the access that we have to technical and resource information to provide more support for information to ISPs about how they might be able to operate their businesses, particularly from a technical viewpoint. The APNIC staff are not operational experts so this is more a facilitation of gathering of information and we'll be relying on participants in that project to contribute useful up-to-date information to create a really dynamic sort of portal of useful information for the community. And there's a screen grab here of what ICONS is looking like at the moment. It's based on the Mambo software which is designed specifically for users to be able to register themselves in the service to be able to contribute information directly and so on and so forth. So please keep an eye on that and, moreover, please think about contributing to the ICONS project for the sake of the development of the Internet in the region. OK, technical services - I'd like to introduce someone who you've all probably known for some time who's taken on the role of technical services manager in APNIC. And, Sanjaya, if you wouldn't mind standing up. Sanjaya has willingly taken on a role of management of the technical services area by mutual agreement with George Michaelson, the prior management, who is moving to steward his interests in the more technical R&D side of things and Sanjaya has taken over from George in the management of the area and things have been going well since that changeover happened a few months ago. Thanks a lot, Sanjaya. Sanjaya was actually instrumental in introducing MyAPNIC. He wrote a prototype a few years ago on Visual Basic and then it was reimplemented on a more consistent platform and the development of MyAPNIC continues as a primary platform for delivering services to members. So we're very concerned to hear about feedback on MyAPNIC to keep developing the service. Online voting is being implemented and is being used for the first time for this Number Council election. Some of the feedback on another issue was that MyAPNIC was a little bit heavy for low-bandwidth situations so there's a lite version, which is a slightly different interface, which will be a lot more responsive for everyone, in fact, not just the low-bandwidth users. And that's going to be demonstrated this afternoon and it will be deployed pretty soon. The implementation of policy proposals also involves technical services quite regularly, so the introduction of the IPv6 routing registry is under way, close to complete at the moment, and the implementation of the assignment statistics, which was also requested through a policy proposal, is also under way. They're also frequently dealing with internal systems enhancements as the requirements of the organisation grow. We had a very successful implementation of a greylisting system for spam, which has reduced - say, in my personal case, the spam that I receive from probably 1,000 a day down to about 25, which is pretty good. I recommend anyone who is suffering as I did from spam to have a look at that. We should actually have some information about that particular technique on the ICONS website. So that's a good application or good use of ICONS I think for anyone who's interested in looking up the operational details of how that's done. Root server deployments are going on. The latest deployment - there were three launched simultaneously in India, through the national Indian Internet Exchange in Mumbai and Chennai and that was involving each of the root server operators, including RIPE NCC itself. So Axel Pawlik and myself were in India recently for the launch of those root servers. The root server map is getting pretty busy now. There's 16 servers deployed with APNIC assistance of some sort or other. In some cases, that's involved some funding or support for hardware. In some cases, it's just the logistics and the coordination and so forth. But we're not the only one involved with this. There's quite a few other root server installations that have happened without our direct involvement. They're all illustrated here. So you can see that, compared with the situation, say, three years ago, when there was one server located up in Tokyo, there's now a pretty good spread of servers around the region. We'll be continuing this project with some servers in Vietnam, in fact, which we're assisting with next year; also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and mainland China. This is something that's ongoing but obviously making a pretty big impact around the region. The communications area is - it's something that has been changing since the appointment of Anne Lord as the Communications Director. She unfortunately couldn't be here this week but she's been very busy integrating communications activities at APNIC. And these things include the area of documentation and information outreach, promotions, training, and events and so on and so forth. And it's going quite well, I hope, in terms of integrating the messages that come from APNIC communications between APNIC and the other stakeholders in the region. There's a lot of work on collaboration going on. Kapil Chawla, our South Asia Liaison Officer was in India for a couple of weeks helping with the root server installations. Thanks also to Save who is continuing as our Pacific liaison officer although also these days in the role of policy development manager. Save was instrumental in the support that we gave to PacNOG, the first PacNOG meeting which happened recently and we had trainers and other APNIC staff there as well. In the documentation area, Apster issue 15 is available and we should all have a copy of that. It's a bumper issue of 16 pages or so. There's a lot of stuff in that Apster. We always appreciate feedback and contributions, so please have a look at it and tell us what you think. Documentation is also involved with increasing the translation activities. We are translating the APNIC annual report. I've asked for an investigation into what it would take to translate Apster into some languages at least, so that's obviously a priority area of activity. And just to keep up with the latest technology trends we've got RSS feeds available for the website and all of the mailing lists hosted at APNIC now. We've got a few new outreach activities. Nurani Nimpuno is the outreach coordinator and with the talented documentation creative team has been working on projects like the meeting documentary which was shown before, flash animations explaining policy process, introducing APNIC and so on. Also in that area, Miwa Fuji, who I think you also know as being acting events manager through the period of this meeting and the next meeting, and she's been extremely busy doing a fantastic job. The reason why she's taken that role on is because the APNIC family keeps growing and Vivian had her second child just recently. On the same topic, hostmaster Arth has also become a daddy. That's Arth there; it's not the baby. And I don't think Arth himself even has a picture of his new child yet but, if we did, we'd have it up here. So congratulations, Arth, a first son. The training team has been very busy, with John H'ng managing that group. 20 events so far this year according to our calendar and the plan for 2005 is a total of 32 in 20 countries. These events are no longer just the resource management events. They're also workshops requested on topics such as advanced DNS, routing, spam and security. These are all areas which involve a lot of collaboration, a lot of ongoing development. As I say, as I mentioned earlier, APNIC staff are not exactly, and cannot be, experts in absolutely every area of Internet operations so we rely very much on help, collaboration, with supporters around the region. Thanks in particular to Philip Smith for his support of a number of training activities that we have and for the collaboration that we've had with Philip particularly in the routing area but in others as well. And the training team has had a presence at numerous meetings. We're also collaborating in terms of presenting training in the programs of APRICOT, SANOG, NZNOG, PacNOG to name a few. The NIR open policy meetings are very productive, very positive development. At the most of the NIRs if not all of them these days is that there are open policy meetings, processes going on in the NIR economies, very actively. And we are cooperating to the extent that we can together to bring training and other activities through those meetings. OK, moving on to the financial status of APNIC during this year. First slide here is a statement of activities, of expenses for the calendar year 2005 to date. The APNIC financial year is for reporting purposes is the calendar year of course. We are in total 4.5% underspent on expenses as against the budget. One reason for that is that we've had a 3.1% advantage from exchange rate differences - the budget predicted 0.7537 and we've had 0.7770 which is in favour of the expense budget of course. Details - I won't go into them on a blow-by-blow basis but you should have a copy of the APNIC financial reports in your meeting information there. Revenues are - well, there's two different ways to look at revenue. One is the actual revenue received which is in fact 2.3% under budget. But, again, because of the strangenesses of foreign exchange gains and losses, we've got a 4.5% effective total revenue increase over budget, which also looks quite positive. It's subject to changes as the foreign exchange rates raise and lower. So the operating surplus itself is looking pretty good at the moment. We had predicted a total budget surplus of $1,051. It's substantially above that at the moment and so the year is looking quite solid. And that is the balance sheet of the organisation. We're maintaining, of course, according to the EC's financial management principles at least a one-year operating reserve, which is for the sake of stability and ongoing security of APNIC's operation. The total assets of the organisation have increased by 5.7% over the last year. OK, that's it for the APNIC status report, a set of selected highlights. There is, of course, more to it than that. If anyone has any questions about this or any other activity, then please feel free to ask. We'll have plenty of time for questions and discussion during the day. If there are no questions right now, I'd like to hand you over to Akinori who will give you a summary of what the EC has been up to during 2005. AKINORI MAEMURA: OK, my name is Akinori Maemura. I'm the chair of the APNIC Executive Council. I will present to you about the report from the APNIC EC. We have seven members in the Executive Council. Can these gentlemen please stand up and the members can see your faces. Stand up please. PAUL WILSON: Your chair is asking you to stand up AKINORI MAEMURA: OK. And EC members are willing to help you in terms of some problem or some consultation or something. So please go up to them and talk to them. OK, the main function of the Executive Council is we are representing the membership. So the highest structure of the decision-making process of the APNIC is, of course, this APNIC member meeting. But between the AMMs, the Executive Council makes some decisions on behalf of the members. Also, the EC has the monthly telephone conference to do some oversight of the activity of APNIC and also discussing about broad Internet policy issues for APNIC's strategy and also checking the financial records monthly and also confirming that the budget and the financial report which is presented in membership meeting. And also the other important role is endorsing the policy consensus toward the implementation. As I said, we have the monthly telephone conference, so we had six telephone conferences from March and also we usually have - we always have the onsite meeting in APNIC policy meeting. And it is usually held on Tuesdays so for EC members, the APNIC meeting begins with the EC meeting, which is the toughest. OK, financial status - we confirmed the - we monthly confirm the financial reports and also confirm the semi-annual financial report, which is already presented from Paul. And, as Paul said, the more revenue and less expense we had and that includes some much influence from the currency rate, exchange rate. We had two policy endorsements from March till now. And one is "APNIC to publish address assignment statistics" and also the second "the second phase of the large space IPv4 trial usage program for future IPv6 deployment", which are endorsed on May 13. We also are keeping track of the activities around the WSIS and WGIG. And we have always - every meeting we have the discussion about these activities and discussing about strategy. If APNIC and also the NRO make some comment or input, we have a look and sometimes make a comment if needed. For ICANN and NRO situations, the contract between ICANN and NRO is ongoing and also NRO incorporation is ongoing. We have a close eye on this. And regarding the NRO NC we have the coordination between NC and EC. We have onsite meetings at APNIC meetings and we decided to have the mailing list for additional online communications. And, as you may know, the EC appoints one number council member out of these three and the other two or elected by the membership and also the participants for the APNIC meeting. And for the year 2005, Kenny Huang is the EC appointment of the NC member. And we have the - we have made two decisions. One is the NIR fees. The problem is the NIR has the per-address fee on the allocations and this per-address fee is for just the gap between ordinary LIR members and the NIRs. But recently, especially for the IPv6, we have a lot - we have several very large allocations. Then, this very large allocations introduced a huge amount of the per-address fee which is not so usual and not so appropriate. So, in April, we decided to make a 90% discount for IPv6 per-address fee in case by justification with existing IPv4 infrastructure because this IPv4 infrastructure has already had per-address fee when the infrastructure assigned IPv4 address. So this is decided in April and enforced in July. But this is - please notice this is an interim solution. So because this is the interim solution, we need some long-term solution. So we started to seek a long-term and a better-fit solution instead of the per-address fee to adjust NIR and LIR - the member fee gap. Other operations - we decided to do the online voting. Pilot voting was conducted in May and at that time, the agenda was to cease the paper publishing of the annual report and replace it by the PDF, electronic publishing. And this pilot project was very successful. So we decided to apply this online voting for this time NRO NC election. This is all from me, and thank you very much. And if you are interested in EC activities, please visit the website www.apnic.net/ec. Very simple. Thank you very much. If you have any questions, I am willing to answer. OK. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: The first RIR report will be ARIN from Ray. We will also have reports from LACNIC, RIPE and AfriNIC. First from Ray and I expect we will shift the Address Council report to after lunch for Kenny's benefit. RAY PLZAK: OK. Prior to coming - I'm Ray Plzak, President of ARIN by the way. Prior to coming here, my executive assistant received notice from APNIC that in the interest of time they wanted these presentations to be abbreviated and made short so my presentation is one slide (refers to blank slide). You're looking at it. LAUGHTER But in the interest of sharing information I have added more to that. I will attempt to give you a status report. I'm sure you will recognise this, a typical slow morning in Hanoi. So I'll discuss a little bit about the current status of the ARIN organisation, membership statistics and some activities, a report from the ARIN XV meeting which occurred after the last report that I provided to you and also an invitation to ARIN XVI. ARIN membership is shown here as the end of August of this year, 2,336 members distributed across the region as shown. In addition we have eight members outside the region and distributed across the other four regions as shown. Members from the ARIN association and staff are here. I don't know if they're all in the room. Bill Woodcock from the board, from the advisory council Andrew Dul and Stacey Taylor, raise your hand. Stacey is shopping. Staff - Einar, Richard you know and Cathy Murphy a lot of you know and Leslie Nobile who gave up shopping to be here for today and me. And from the ARIN region the ASO AC, the numbers council, Sandy George right there. By the way, you will always see a similar distribution from ARIN at every RIR meeting. In addition to staff, you will see members from the advisory council, the board and the Address Council. Some statistics. In terms of help desk contacts, here's what you saw in 2004/2005 (Refers to slide). The 2005 email - for some reason we got a lot of email this year so far, an 80% increase. Phone calls to the help desk a 1% increase. Overall, all contact percentages have changed about 83%. In regards to template processing, we do some interactively, ie manual intervention. The rest are done through automatic application software we developed. In 2004, the split was about 80/20. To date in 2005, the split is 91%/9% in terms of percentages. Percentage change is interesting in that the interactive per cent has dramatically changed, about 54% , and the automatic has increased about 14%. Net change in the relationship between the two, a decrease of about 55% in the interactive area and an increase in 13, almost 14% in the automatic area. But the overall change in activity is less than 1% so it says that the overall activity is staying about the same, just the way it is being handled is slightly different. Looking at number resource activity, allocations assignments for the past three years in terms of v4 /8s automonous system numbers and /32s are as shown. And you can see an increase in v4, a decrease in v6 and AS numbers a slight change. New v4 holders, these are the people that come to ARIN for the first time, be it address space. You can see the distribution is shown on the table. The growth is still in the extra small, small area and in a lesser extent the medium area. About 80 to 85% of the ARIN subscribers and holders fall into the bottom three categories. The remaining 15% is divided between the large and extra large. Looking at some projects and activities across the departments, in registration services, we have actually undertaken debogonising testing. We spell it with a 'Z', you spell it with an 'S'. We have been working on address reclamation, particularly in conjunction with people working on overdue accounts. When people don't pay, we take back the space. In addition, the circumstances in New Orleans, they have caused us within the last several days to receive some requests for emergency allocations of IPv4 address space in particular to support rebuilding of infrastructure and to help in survivor contact activities and we have been able to meet those requests. We have done it in matters of hours and at the same time we have ensured we have followed the policy process and haven't taken any short-cuts so that's something we expect will continue unfortunately over the next seven or eight months. In the member services area, a lot of things going on, many will come up. More work on the election system. We're improving and fine-tuning it. We have re-done and looked at our manner of doing outreach and have gone into a specific targeting mode and have developed a contact database which allows anyone that makes a contact to provide information back to member services. This goes into the contact database and then goes on from there. We're fine-tuning and making more efficient disbursement and procurement systems. This is to modernise what we had and at the same time make sure we're complying with business practices. Engineering has been working on a voting system, credit card system and working on integrating the three existing database in member services and financial services and participating in activities developing secure routing. Lastly, HR has been working on positions and salary surveys, making sure the surveys the ARIN member staff receive are commensurate with similar positions in the area and we continued on with the education training of wanting to learn how to interact in a much better manner for ourselves and people outside of the ARIN staff. The latest thing was MINDEX. Whether we're Red Sky or Blue Sky or Red Earth or Blue Earth, if you want further details, Leslie, who is a hardcore Red Earth person, will tell you about it. We have improved the navigation on the website and the compliance standard and the code. If you haven't visited, please do so. It has been out there for about five months. We work with the other RIRs to coordinate activities with the NRO, ICANN and have been working on activities surrounding the WSIS. At the ARIN XV meeting, this is the status of the policies. Three were adopted and two preferred. Save provided information and I won't say anything more than what I have said here. AfriNIC, Save also reported on this and this policy will be discussed as well at the upcoming meeting, which by the way if you don't recognise this, this is Hollywood and this is Universal City. It is also the site of ARIN XVI. Literally right across the street from Universal City. In conjunction also with NANOG 35, the major sponsor is Equinix. It is 23 to 28 October. Things you can expect are tutorials and training activities, technical presentations, BoFs, policy discussions, elections, the ARIN help desk will be up and running and also we will have the for the first time on site, the billing help desk will be open. There will be beer and gear associated with the NANOG and we will have one of our usual well-attended and fun social events. This one is going to be in Hollywood so you know it is going to be fun. It is a double feature playing, ARIN XVI and NANOG 35. Go to either one of our websites to get further information. With that I will say thank you. APPLAUSE. PAUL WILSON: Thanks, Ray. One of the good things about the RIR reports is they tend to mention things I might have forgotten in the APNIC reports, such as the work we have all been doing on the NRO incorporation, the WSIS and so forth. Thanks Ray for your focus on collaborative activities there. Next will be Raul Echeberria from LACNIC of course. RAUL ECHEBERRIA: Thank you, Paul. I understand I have eight minutes. I think that after travelling almost 40 hours I deserve to speak more than eight minutes but of course. I will take that into consideration for the next LACNIC meeting. LAUGHTER RAUL ECHEBERRIA: This is evolution of IPv4 allocation in the LACNIC region. You can see the growing of the allocation continues. If we look at the number of IP v4 addresses allocated, you can see in the first semesters of this year we have made a bigger allocation and under the current policy, receive two /8 block from IANA. This is the first time we go to IANA to ask for additional allocations. We are currently administered four /8s while we share the concerns that have been expressed many times here in this forum in regard to the imbalance of IPv4 allocations, it brings a little bit more satisfaction or more - it is the - we feel that the capacity of LACNIC managing this allocation has increased. The membership per year also is growing. The current number of members is 290. They were ISPs because we signed an agreement with the Mexican national registry as maybe you don't know but two national registries in Latin America already existed before LACNIC was created and then we enter a formal agreement with the Mexican registry last year as one of the things that we got with this agreement was the membership rights to the Mexican customers but we are still in the process of signing the similar contract with the Brazilian registry. This is the reason the Brazilian ISPs are not in the graph. We have been involved strongly in IPv6 promotion in Latin America. This is not because we - it's not our business to promote one specific technology but what we are trying to do is promote idea of the permanent innovation and trying to get the Latin American community involved in all the discussions and involved in the testing and implementation of new technology and the option of the technology IPv6 among them. We have our LACNIC promotion of IPv6 based on five things - one is the adapted policies. We adopted the common policy being applied in all the regions and at the time, the open discussion process was open to review that policy and it was removed, for example, the request for allocations you already know what the code is. The current policies are prepared and there is no guarantee there is no special fees for IPv6 allocations as also we fund research and working in promotion and training. Speaking about promotion, this year we launch the IPv6 and organise 10 meetings in cities in the region. Those events are - it is not just for the technical community but for the public. We usually have participants from the public sector and decision-makers but also technicians and students, ISPs. We have organised five meetings and in those first five meetings we have had a participation of more than 1,000 people. In the last three that were held one week ago, 750 participated in those three meetings in Buenos Aires and Chile and Montevideo. Very successful. We plan another phase of IPv6 too and plan meetings in the Dominican republic, Cuba and Panama and have the same success we have currently now. The organisations who are not members of LACNIC receive IPv6 space but do not have to pay any membership fees now. We are involved in the regional IPv6 task force and national task force has been already created as the original task force is a good environment for the provision of those initiatives. Other two or three national task forces are being created right now. In terms of training, we have offered training in all our meetings on IPv6. Some of them we have had the honour of the participation of distinguished members of the APNIC community. You can see the IPv6 allocations, 37 allocations was very few and we can see the evolution is - we can be optimistic in having a strong deployment of the Latin American community in IPv6 deployment. Most of the 18 allocations that have been made this year have been made after June, which show this is the right moment - exactly the moment in which the IPv6 is being considered more seriously in Latin America. One interesting thing is that most of the newer allocations are operations that are being used currently in the Internet. Unless that maybe were assigning but have been used for experimental issues more than looking for commercial services. Most of the last organisation that have received IPv6 addresses have a commercial interest and. This map shows the evolution of IPv6 in Latin America. The red countries are the countries in which there is no IPv6 allocation yet. We have other projects. I have spoken about the FRIDA program in APNIC forums. It is an initiative for funding research and currently we are funding 26 projects with a total amount of 370 social orders. We are also working on the deployment of the root servers in the Latin American region, currently with the director of F-Root. We are running IFC in Panama. We have renewed cooperation agreement with NIC, Brazil registry. It is a different base and from January 1 we start to pay for the service and will receive further from the registry and continue with the outsourcing of some of the services and allocation services. All the registration services staff now belong directly to the LACNIC staff and conduct a relationship with LACNIC. It means that LACNIC is a organisation 100% sustainable from now. We are planning to move to new facilities next year. We are in the process - we have bought a new house and we are in the process to work in the area next year. We started to work with LACNIC news which is available on the website. We expect to issue three newsletters per year. Lastly, our next meeting - we continue organising only one meeting per year with a view to showing meetings with other Latin American organisations, it has been a very successful experience in the last few years. The next meeting will be held in the last week of May 2006. We don't know where it will be held because there is a call for proposals open at this moment as I think next month we will have news and obviously we will communicate to everybody where we will have the next meeting. We will have the opportunity to meet again at the beginning of March before our next meeting. That's all. Thank you. I spoke nine minutes. PAUL WILSON: Well done. The extra minute is for the 40 hours you spent flier here. RAUL ECHEBERRIA: Thank you very much. PAUL WILSON: The next is Axel Pawlik, wearing an AfriNIC T-shirt. AXEL PAWLIK: I'm going to give you a short update and I'm aware we're before lunch and quite hungry. With regard to policies, we have eventually a new policy development process that has taken us some time to set it up properly. I think about four years or so since we started to talk about it but it is done now and the proposals have been sorted into it and it is all available to our website. It is very neat now. For years, we have looked in awe at the ARIN process which was very formal and very precise and ours was friendly and fluffy and not quite as precise so we tried to set something up that was similar to ARIN but not overly, letÕs say German. OK, on training and I'm proud to say we are making progress with the e learning. We have signed off on further developments for online learning portal where we will have the first items ready for launch in November. You are all invited to have a look at it. Our training material is totally revised. We have LIR courses and updated routing registry and DNSSEC courses. We continue outreach activities. We have what we call the RIPE NCC round table talking to governments and administrators and regulators in our area. We did it in the last ICANN meeting together with the GAC. Piggy-backing onto third party events, we think it is essential we go and do something like this and we try to do this and of course we continue the good coordination between the RIRs on these things. K-Root - as mentioned before, we do anycast and we have just adjourned basically. We have done as the operator of K over the course of this year is to deploy - over the last few weeks basically we switched to the K-Root in Miami and Delhi, done in cooperation with APNIC which was done well. Thank you very much. Our deployment targets for this year have been reached so what we concentrate on now for the next few months and basically look at the Internet, look at the any cast service and try to get some scientific research on this done to see whether we with stop now, whether we have enough root servers or whether there needs to be done something more for next year. DNSMON - we have seen the need to monitor the K-Roots around the world and thought it might be a very good idea to offer a similar service to other nameserver operators, for instance the TLD operators. So currently we have a production server since earlier this year. Earlier on we have 14 TLDs subscribed to the service. The costs are shared and of course we are happy to receive feedback. This is actually a plot for the TLD and the idea is that we will see something vertical in terms of funny colours like yellow or red which is really bad. (Refers to slide). Then the nameserver will have a problem. What you see here is two slices. A bit of yellow, so slower responses. That horizontal line indicates there is an issue with the network from a given probe to that nameserver. Talk to me if you're interested in that and/or have a look at dnsmon.ripe.net. Moving, membership liaison. We are revising the agenda and focusing on new RIPE NCC issues. This is not to be confused with the RIPE meeting. We have heard from members in the outlying regions that they have difficulties travelling all that way to Amsterdam or London or wherever it might be and it would be nice if we look after them more and talk to them. What we're basically doing a update sessions here. So the update on locations and timings for this year and next year will be going to Moscow again. If you look at the dates, it is coordinating with me coming home from here. We have just under 24 hours to wash our undergarments and dry them hopefully before we leave for Moscow. We thought we would have a meeting in Qatar at the end of this year but it didn't work out so we have shifted it to January next year. Then we have done another membership survey, member survey with KPMG. The results are just in and of course it is a nice bouquet of quite a few pages. Just to break it down into one number, I think we are rated 5.64 on a scale of 1-7 for member services. We're happy with that. But there are another 280 page pages of individual comments on service and projects to do and projects we have done. We're going through this with a fine-tooth comb in preparation for the RIPE meeting in September. This brings me to what I call corporate governance, how are we dealing with our members formally? We had a general meeting at the RIPE 50 meeting and we had a new board member there, Jim Reid. You might know him. We have been preparing the next general meeting at the next RIPE meeting with the theme of that being the planning for next year, support for activity planning, the budget and a formal document for members to approve the charging scheme. I haven't published any of this formally to our members so suffice to say not that much is going to change. The budget is about the same as it was this year and that was around 10.4 million Euros and the activities, we are looking a bit at focusing on security there, otherwise we continue with the things that we currently do. I thought that might be sort of interesting. Last year we changed our terms and conditions and thus our contract. We have had all our members re-sign those contracts and we scratched our heads and thought, "Oh, we'll see how many members we end up with after this." We started with 4,000 and thought we might have 500 left in the ends. Quite a number of our members are not in day-to-day contact with us but I'm happy to report only about 150 are still outstanding. They will get registered letters by the end of September to tell them that by the end of the year - if they don't sign up again, we'll kick them out of their membership. Probably they have forgotten about us already. That's fine. So good outcome. And the upcoming RIPE meeting in October will be in - if you look at that precisely, it is rain and it must be Amsterdam. It is Amsterdam. You're all very heartily invited. We have piloted the new meeting schedule in Stockholm at the last meeting. What you see here basically is the last part of the week, European operators from the UF, that is the plenary of many plenary sessions focusing on presentations of more or less general interest whale we still retain quite a number of slightly parallel working groups with very focused interest there so you're all heartily invited. If you think the weather is not so inviting, you can wait until next May and we'll very likely be in Istanbul where the weather is warmer. Colder than here. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE. PAUL WILSON: Ernest. Lunch will be coming soon. Between now and lunch we have Ernest Byaruhanga and a brief notice about the numbers council election, Kenny's report will be after lunch. ERNEST BYARUHANGA: Good afternoon everybody. My name is Ernest Byaruhanga and I will be presenting to you the brief on AfriNIC on behalf of my boss Adiel who couldn't make it here. Some of you may be wondering what happened in the case of the latest RIR, RIR number 5 after LACNIC, we received RIR status from ICANN just in April 2005. That was April this year. Currently we serve those parts of Africa previously serviced by RIPE NCC, APNIC and ARIN. A brief on the recent activities. We had our second public policy meeting in Mozambique. That was a successful meeting. We had many activities at this meeting. We had an election of our very first ASO AC representatives for the region, Jean Robert Hountomey and Sonia Geha. We discussed some new basic proposals that got presented from the community. We adopted the fee schedule and budget and lots of other activities happened. That was AfriNIC two and following that meeting will be a meeting in December in Egypt. Also in the recent activities, we have been contacting LIR and number training events in Africa. We have already had five successful training events. Most of them are conducted in French or English or both depending on the country. We will also have future training events for this year. We are talking about five with the most current one being in Mauritius, Kenya, Libreville, Cape Town and Egypt. The three representatives elected to the ASO were also elected to the N RO council. The two of them were elected in Maputo at the AfriNIC meeting, as I mentioned. Alan is also a board member of the AfriNIC board of trustees. Since we became a full RIR, we also officially joined the NRO as a full member and participate in the NRO activities. We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the NRO in April 2005 at our second public policy meeting. We also are fully participants in the WSIS discussions through the NRO. We also participate various Prepcoms in Dakar, Cairo and Akar where we give perspectives on Internet Governance. This is a reflection of the membership growth of only the newer members that have joined AfriNIC from average around April when we started full RIR activities and we have been having a steady rate of growth and we currently have about 38 new members. Of course in addition to the members we inherited from the other RIRs. So the number growth is taking. This is also a brief comparison of the trend of allocated v4 space in Africa. In 2004 before AfriNIC came into existence and in 2005, represented by red and blue. What is in blue is the v4 space that was allocated by the three RIRs in Africa and as you can see it is about half the number compared to the v4 space that has been allocated in AfriNIC in about the same time. This is probably because the policies that were in use before by the other RIRs did not really favour or reflect the African business models so with the new policies that our community proposed and these policies reflect mostly the African business environment and that maybe explains the difference in numbers, about double. Same proposal but for AS numbers, this is numbers assigned by AfriNIC compared to those assigned by other RIRs last year. (Refers to slide). As already presented yesterday, we have a few policies under discussion and these are policies for temporary assignments and assignments for critical establishments like IXPs. We also have policies for direct assignments from AfriNIC to end user organisations and change for the criteria for assignment of Autonomous System Numbers. Also a policy for IPv6 allocation from IANA to RIRs. These are still under discussion on the mailing lists and will be presented again at our third public Paul ace meeting for consensus from the community. On the human resources side, we are still a small team but a few people are coming on board as the tasks become more and more. We have a new guy, Frank Nnebe. He joined the AfriNIC team. He is a senior software engineer. He joined July 1 and is based in South Africa. Also Radha Ramphul working as an IT assistant and hostmaster. She will start on September 15 in Mauritius. Myself was appointed as registration service manager and our staff exchange program, we are people visiting ARIN. One of the reasons why my boss couldn't make it here was because we are still a small team and he was looking for another guy - he was busy hiring somebody else to join the team and this new guy is Aymerick Akplogan, born on August 15 in Montreal. So congratulations to the new parents. APPLAUSE ERNEST BYARUHANGA: We are having our third public policy meeting in Cairo in Egypt and the dates are 11 to 15 December this year. This will be co-located with AfriNIC IPv6 event. We have training and policy had meetings there. All of you are welcome. The discussion will be announced soon on the website and public mailing lists. We have a few mailing lists. One for general discussions, the other for policy and training and outreach and of course our website will provide all of the information you need. That's all from me and is there any questions? APPLAUSE. PAUL WILSON: Thanks. I'm glad to say also that we will have Frank from AfriNIC at APNIC for a little while in the coming month or so. So it will be very good to be table to work with Frank. OK, let's move on then. That's the end of the RIR reports and thanks very much for all of those reports which are very informative for the community here. We will have the Address Council update after lunch but in the - just in the next few minutes, I'd like to just run over the procedure for the NRO numbers council election. So we have one vacant seat on the NRO numbers council and the numbers council of course is the subject of a little confusion because the numbers council actually acts as the Address Council in the ASO so we're talking the NRO NC, the ASO AC are effectively the same thing at this time. The person elected will serve for a 2-year term starting at the beginning of next year, replacing the outgoing member to Takashi Arano who has decided to retire from the Address Council and definitely deserves our thanks for his long service on the Address Council. Voting started at 9:00am today and will end at 2:00 p.m. be sure if you wish to vote that you do so by the end of lunchtime. In the voting ballot box which will be in this room or possibly at the registration desk. There are three candidates for the current election, Toshiyuki Hosaka, Kenny Huang and Eugene Li. The voting entitlement for this meeting, traditionally it's been - for this election, I'm sorry, traditionally the election has been open to every individual present in the room. This is how the elections have run in the past. The APNIC EC has been monitoring the progress of these elections over the years and has adjusted the process to ensure fairness and consistency and accessibility of the process to members of the community. There is a requirement that as an individual intending to vote at this election, you must have attended a prior APNIC meeting. That is a prior meeting for which we still have registration records and that goes back to APNIC 10 so for either this meeting or any of the previous 10 meetings, if we have your registration record, then you will be able to receive a ballot paper. If you haven't yet received a ballot paper and you wish to vote, then that is possible at the registration desk. Now the APNIC EC, also through the online voting abilities of MyAPNIC has extended the voting entitlement to one vote by each APNIC member organisation, either through MyAPNIC online voting or by a proxy. So APNIC member organisations also have a vote and by proxy some individuals at this meeting may be carrying proxies on behalf of APNIC members, in which case they will receive a ballot paper for each proxy. Of course MyAPNIC online voting is over now and the registration of proxies is also over. You will know if you have proxy forms and need to receive ballot papers for the proxies. Voting procedure is your ballot paper should be stamped and must be stamped for it to be counted. Please ark only one box with an ÔXÕ and your vote will be invalid if it is ambiguous. As is traditional in the circumstances, we will need independent scrutineers to help with vote counting. Because we have only one vote per individual and per member, we won't have the several thousand votes to count that has happened in the past so potential scrutineers, please have no fear. It should be a manageable process. Some volunteers. Mathias, Raul, Axel and Ray, I think. Four is probably ideal. If anyone else would like to volunteer, I would suggest what you do as voluntary scrutineers, thank you very much, is approach the front of the room when we break for lunch and make an arrangement amongst yourself on how you want to proceed. Someone from APNIC staff will be able to assist with how the process will be supported from our end. So voting ends at 2:00 p.m. the scrutineers will need to assemble to collect the voting forms and to count. So that's it. If there are any questions regarding this voting process then please feel free to approach an APNIC staff member or myself or the APNIC registration desk. I would like to declare the meeting closed for the lunch break and see you all on time at 2:00 p.m., please. Thank you very much. See you later.