______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 11.00am Presentation: RIR joint statistics Presenter: Elly Tawhai ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: I think we should make a start again. We've got a few reports to get through between now and lunchtime. The morning's agenda is on the screen again. So we're going to be starting with the joint RIR statistics report, followed by four RIR reports. And we are honoured to have a certain Mr David Conrad here from IANA who will be giving us a report on what's happening at IANA before we finish for the lunch. And the other formality before the lunchtime is, of course, the EC election. And I'll mention now that voting for the EC election will - well, it's open now, you have your ballot papers, those of you who are members. And those of you who have not voted online already have your ballot papers. I'll explain the voting system before lunch and so, if you have any doubts about it, about how to participate in the election, then that will all be explained. There will also be an opportunity for candidates who are here to make a brief presentation in support of their nomination for the EC position. So we've got 15 minutes set aside for that. It may take a little longer than that so we'll try and allocate a bit more time. I was asked one question over the break about the fee structure presentation. I should clarify, since it wasn't clear - FA that example fee structure that I gave was intended to completely replace the existing fee structure, including the per-address fee so there would no longer be a per-address fee charge to NIRs or confederations under that model. So I suppose one of the principles or one of the rationales behind the proposal was, in fact, to eliminate the per-address fee. That's not necessarily an agreed position of the entire community. I know a lot of people have argued against it and are not particularly comfortable with it but I'll clarify that that was at least one of the rationales behind that particular proposal and I'll make that clear in the preparation that goes up on the website. Let's move along. We have Elly Tawhai here who is one of the APNIC hostmasters and she will be presenting the joint statistics report on behalf of the NRO. Thanks, Elly. ELLY TAWHAI: Good morning, everyone. As Paul introduced myself - I am giving the resource status update date as of the 31st of December 2005. So here - you all know, there's 256 /8s and from here, you can see that, out of these /8s, this amount here, there's a certain amount of reserve for IETF for special use such as experimenting, as you can see. This figure over here reflects the amount that was given out before pre-RIR times and you can see at the moment over here this reflects each from the current RIRs. To give you a yearly comparison of IPv4 allocations that each of the RIRs have made from 1999 to 2005 (refers to slide). Under APNIC's figure, you can see that there has been linear growth. However, in 2005, you will notice that RIPE NCC has made the most v4 allocations. Under the cumulative total, percentage-wise, APNIC has made the most - has the largest percentage in comparison with the other RIRs. Assignment-wise, you can see from 1999 to 2005 the AS figure compared to IPv4. APNIC has made a smaller amount in AS numbers. And you can see here in percentage-wise, the cumulative total, ARIN has made the most and RIPE NCC second and APNIC third. Now, for v6 allocations, this is the v6 allocations out of number of /23s. So you can see from the totals up on screen that RIPE NCC has made the most v6 allocations so far. And you can see this amount reflected here between 1999 and 2005. So you can see that - you can see in 2005 RIPE NCC made the most compared to APNIC. And, again, this is reflected in the percentage for the cumulative total. So, out of all the RIRs, RIPE NCC has made the most, has the largest percentage, APNIC second, ARIN third and so on. Now, if you want to go away and analyse this data, please feel free to go to any of the URLs there to have a look at the raw data (refers to slide). Thank you very much. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Thanks, Elly. I won't call for questions during these reports but, if anyone has a question, please raise a hand or just come up to the microphone. Next, Adiel, are you ready? Thanks. Adiel Akplogan is the CEO of AfriNIC. ADIEL AKPLOGAN: I will start this presentation by giving some quick statistics about our first year of operation. As you know, we became a full registry in April last year and, since then, we have noticed a very interesting steady growth, both in our membership and in allocations we made. For instance, this year, we got 64 new members, which is more than 140% growth compared to the previous year, which is very encouraging for us. And that growth is also shown in resource allocations, both IPv4 and ASN. When we launched our RIR, one of the challenges we had was awareness. In our region, we have very few network operators which were really aware about what an RIR is for and how they can get their IP address. So one of the things we have done last year is to put in place a training program to train our members on how they can request IP address, how they can request resources and what is the process and what is the policy. We have also developed this training program both in French and English, because we have a bunch of our members who are French-only-speaking countries. We run last year eight training in different countries, so you have in orange all the countries where we had training last year and we are planning to have our own 12 training this year, 2006, the new training plan is available on our website. And what we have also new this year is that we add IPv6 training in our training module, so we have some training which is two strands of training. First part is common engineering LIR training and second day is full-day, hands-on IPv6 training. Our members have requested in April, during AfriNIC-2 in Maputo, more awareness of IPv6 so this year, we formally include IPv6 in our training plan. We have also now released in Cairo during AfriNIC-3, training material on CD-ROM which we give to all our new member and all members when they requested the CBT is also online for those who cannot attend physical training. They can learn how to interact with AfriNIC through the training material. We've conducted last year, two public policy meetings, one in Maputo and another one in Cairo. Most of those policy meetings was to discuss generic policy. There is no really new improvement because we are new, new RIR. So we are still validating our basic policies, like all the other RIRs have. In Cairo, we had discussion on the temporary assignment. It's especially for meeting, experimental and other short-period use of IP address. So we got consensus in Cairo on that policy. We also had a discussion on the direct assignments to end-users. We also got consensus on those policies (refers to slide). The four policies where we had consensus was policy which has been proposed a few times before AfriNIC-2 meeting in Maputo but our policy development process required that the policy has to be sent to the mailing list at least 30 days before the face-to-face meeting. So it doesn't meet that criteria in Maputo so that's why in Cairo we have them again for discussion. So then we had also another policy proposal to change the criteria for AS number. Previously we don't have to be a member of AfriNIC to get AS number assignment. Now we have changed to make AS number assignment to only members. We also discussed the global IPv6 allocation policy from IANA to RIRs. We got consensus on this policy and they have been sent back to the mailing list for the 15 days' discussion and now they are - they will be moved to the board for ratification. We got also a policy on 4-byte AS number. That policy was sent less than 30 days before our face-to-face meeting, so the policy is still under discussion. And you can participate on that discussion on our policy mailing list. Some activities: Registration service. We started cleaning up our database after the transition where we got information and registration data from different several RIRs. We start cleaning up the information and making them consistent with what we have in our whois and the new membership forms we got from our member. Engineering point of view - there is a lot we are doing but, among those, we are trying to find a solution for spamming. Several measures have been taken since then to fight the spamming and now we are testing the greylisting. We also are trying to make our membership process very simple and easy. And, for that, we are developing also a membership portal for our members, which will improve the membership itself and the management of the resources, which we will call MyAfriNIC. We also are working on a whois server to adapt it to our policy and make it more consistent with our policy and our internal procedure. We also start our disaster recovery centre set up in Egypt. As you know, we have our operational office based in three different locations, so Egypt is our disaster recovery centre and we have also started deploying our infrastructure over there. On the financial side, we got income tax exemption in Mauritius as a not-for-profit organisation. It has been something we started negotiating since the beginning of last year. We got it in December, which is good news. We invoice our members for 2006 at the beginning of the year. So far, we got a very successful collection. We are at 60% collection rate now but we are still working on the collection and contacting members for payment. We also start the accounting auditing for 2005 accounts as requested by our law. Staffing. When we become a full RIR, we had three working at AfriNIC. Today, we have five, plus one trainee, which is a hostmaster trainee. Four are located in Mauritius and two in South Africa. The new hostmaster is located in Mauritius. And we have two in South Africa, including our new engineer, Frank, which is here too. This year, we are planning to recruit three new staff this semester - a system engineer, a database manager and a membership liaison, which will allow us to improve our relationship with our members. Along all of those, we are also trying to build a strong collaboration and relationship with other organisations working in Africa in the networking and Internet area. We have signed in December with AfNOG a memorandum of understanding to support our activity and conduct some training and awareness activities together. We are discussing with other organisations such as AfrISPA, and ITU-D to see how we can support activities because in our continent there is a lot to do and we need to be able to support each other to be able to achieve those goals. We have also, on the instruction of the board become ITU member in 2005. This allows us to be closer to discussions on Internet government at the ITU level and also be able more easily to raise awareness to government body or policy about Africa. As I was saying, we have included IPv6 training in our training plan. This is part of a global awareness project we have on IPv6 awareness. We had our first IPv6 meeting in Cairo in December during the AfriNIC-3 meeting and we, we are working on a more extensive project on IPv6 which includes providing to our member to be more ready and prepared for the IPv6 transition and the project is known as the 6Mandela project and we will be launching it in during AfriNIC-4 in Nairobi. That is all. Our coming meeting is 16 to 17 May in Nairobi, Kenya. That meeting will be held back to back with AfNOG as we have every year one meeting back to back with AfNOG and, at the end of the year, we will have our fifth meeting in Mauritius and the date is 27 November to 1 December. Thank you. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: There are some questions. DAVID CONRAD: David Conrad, IANA, ICANN, whatever. I was just wondering will the AFTLD folks be meeting at the Nairobi meeting? ADIEL AKPLOGAN: Yes. There is a project to have a half a day meeting with AfTLD in Nairobi because we encourage them to be more - to formalise the organisation and be more active. So there will be a meeting of AfTLD in Nairobi. The agenda is not released yet. But yes. PAUL WILSON: OK. More questions? No.