Author:David Shi-Wei Chen
Purposes
APNIC 17 was held successfully as one of the
tutorial and conference tracks at APRICOT 2004 in
Conference and SIG discussion
I attended many sessions such as NIR system BOF, NIR workshop, hostmaster consultations, IPv6 SIG, Policy SIG, Database SIG, Member Meeting and social event.
NIR
System BOF:
The meeting was held on Monday, February 23rd, at
TWNIC has not implemented IPv4 direct allocation yet since the policy announced on Dec 2002. But we still concerned about the impact after setting reverse DNS flow changed. I also suggested that APNIC need to cross check the reverse DNS zone file in a period of time such as everyday or 3 days or one week. NIRs would provide their own reverse DNS zone file to APNIC depending on the frequency of cross checking.
APNIC will provide a client program to NIRs for data exchange between APNIC and NIRs. This program will base on XML and client/server structure. It will deliver on Q3 2004. I required that APNIC need to retain the email parser function for original update.
NIR
Workshop:
The meeting was
held on Monday, February 23rd, at
Hostmaster
Consultation:
The consultation was held on Tuesday, February 24th, at
Son said that we have to wait 3 months after the policy announced. Don’t implement now, but you could negotiate with customer after this meeting to prepare in advance.
SIGs:
In Policy SIG, One of TWNIC’ member, SeedNet, proposed an amendment which is to modify subsequence allocation criteria in IPv4 allocation policy guide line. This proposal has made a consensus to form a working group for guide line reviewing.
In Database SIG, we discussed about Protecting Historical Records in APNIC Whois Database. I gave one point of my view in the meeting. That is if the marked records is belong to NIRs’ member, APNIC should list these record to NIRs for reference.
In NIR SIG, JPNIC gave two presentations. One is JPNIC OPM updated, the other is JPNIC status updated. I also prepared one presentation whose topic is TWNIC first OPM updated and answered two questions regarding the policy making processing flow and how to encourage participants to join the discussing mailing list.
Each NIR reported their country operation status in NIR SIG.
Suggestions
I suggested that TWNIC
could encourage IPv6 project division to submit proposal or informational presentation
in IPv6 SIG and promote TWNIC’s member to join each SIG discussion or publish papers.
TWNIC should set a long
term strategy of APNIC attendance in the future.
TWNIC should announce
and follow up APNIC17 policy which made consensus on APNIC 17 Open Policy
Meeting to TWNIC’s members after these policies have been reported to TWNIC IP
COMMITTEE.