______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 11.00am Presentation: LACNIC report Presenter: German Valdez ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: We've got a LACNIC presentation yet. Ray has fled too quickly to receive his special surprise. If you'll come all the way back, Ray. RAY PLZAK: You come all the way to Montreal, you will enjoy the special surprise. GERMAN VALDEZ: My name is German Valdez, I work in policy liaison with LACNIC. I'm going to give a brief report about the LACNIC activities in the last month and what's going on right now in the Latin American region. Before, I have a few slides with statistics. This is the IPv4 allocations per semester. If we take into account that in the second semester in 2002 we start operations in the region, then you can see an increase in the amounts of the allocations in Latin America. This is all data until March 1. And this is the amount of /24s allocations in Latin America. As you can see, we had a huge increase last year in /24s allocated. This is because the two National Internet Registries operating in Latin America requested new space and that's why this graphic shows a lot of /24s allocated in the region then. Regarding our memberships, we have 300 members until December 31, 2005. As you can see, the green area is about small ISPs so these small organisations are the most frequent kind of organisations that are requesting Internet resources in Latin America. We have been very involved in IPv6 activities and IPv6 promotions in Latin America. During Adiel's presentation, he mentioned a lot of activities about awareness of AfriNIC activities in the region. Well, we did the same when we started. It is very important that awareness activities be made. Try to get in contact with our customers, saying, "Here we are. This is the thing we do. This is your faculties, your responsibilities and here is the opportunity to participate in the way we relegate and distribute Internet resources." In the case of Latin America, the deployment of IPv6 in the region was very poor until last year. So we take some strategies to try to push a little bit the deployment of IPv6 in the region. Since Latin perspective, we take five strategies. The first one was the support to adopt policies according to the reality. The second stage was waiver fees, IPv6 allocations in Latin America don't have any fees. If already they have IPv4 allocations. We also funded research regarding IPv6 projects or IPv6 investigations done through the academics in Latin America and a lot of promotion and a lot of training. Regarding the promotion, we organised an IPv6 Tour like a rock band. We tried to promote IPv6 this kind of event was a one-day event, focused to promote IPv6, try to explain what it is, what innovations and opportunities this is offering. It was more - not a technical session. We tried to do it more like a marketing session. So, in this way, we have different kinds of people in these meetings. We have engineers, we have professors, we have students, we have lawyers, we have network operators, we have people from government, we have very huge scope of people in these activities. We have more than 2,500 people registered in these activities to attend. This also helps a lot to constitute national working groups for IPv6 in all the countries that we were last year. We started in May in Caracas, Venezuela and we ended in Mexico City. I think these kind of meetings helps a lot in the promotions and the awareness of what IPv6 is and this was reflected through the statistics that we take before and after. You can see that in 2005, we made the IPv6 Tour, we have a lot of - an increase. This the amount of IPv6 allocations and comparisons in the last years. Also, all the countries where we celebrated these events reflects the amount of IPv6 that the people requested. So far, we have 57 IPv6 allocations. Compared with the other of regions, this is not too much but, well, we've taken the first steps and happily I can say that it is a lot more conscious about this new protocol. We have also been involved in special projects. We have a project that we call the FRIDA program. This is a joint initiative of LACNIC took with the Institute for the Connectivity in The Americas and the International Development Research Center and supported by Internet Society and GKP. This is small grants program to support research in Internet technology in Latin America. We accomplished to get together a fund of almost $500,000 and, in the end of 2005, we received 355 proposals from all over Latin America. And we granted US$173,000 for these projects. We selected 14 projects from 21 different countries. These included three projects related to IPv6 and we have a very broad scope of projects related to information technology. Also we have another project we call Raices. That is something similar to what APNIC is doing here in the Asia Pacific region. We are trying to help the deployment of F-Root rootservers in Latin America. So far, we have four countries that are agreed and they have signed agreements, the MoU, with LACNIC and the ISC, which is the operator of the F-root, which is Venezuela, Argentina, Panama and Chile, which is implemented in last December. Well, we have also two new community supported through LACNIC. One of them is the NAPLA, which is the Association of Operators of IXPs in Latin America. We have permanent forum which is supported by LACNIC and they are going to have also their meetings during LACNIC IX. We have also another community which is oriented to CERTS. And we have also a new facility, we will have new facilities for 2006. I don't have too much to show you yet about the new facilities. This is the place (refers to slide). These are pictures taken the day after we bought it, this house. As you can see, there is a jungle there and behind the jungle you can see the house. There's a lot of work we have to do to condition the place and we hope to move there in the second semester. And also I can show you the view of the boss of LACNIC to the river in Montevideo and that is going to be our new facility. I hope in the next meeting I can show better pictures. This is our new home. That is also your home in Uruguay. OK, the last slide is regarding LACNIC IX. It's going to have a five-day meeting and it's going to be held in Guatemala City. LACTLD is holding the meeting with us. We are going to have tutorials in IPv6, and in security. We are going to have also the meeting with the NAPLA and the first meeting of operators, people involved in security networks in Latin America. And also the Open Policy Forum. You are more than welcome to join us. That's it. Thank you for your attention. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Thank you. GERMAN VALDEZ: I'll wait. LAUGHTER GERMAN VALDEZ: Thanks.