Report
Thank you to the attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to APRICOT 2024. The preliminary event participation statistics are:
Conference Statistics
| Total number of in person attendees | 855 | |
| Total number of online-only participants | 65 | |
| Economies represented | 54 | |
| APNIC Member organizations represented | 242 |
EC Election 2024
Three positions were open for election at APNIC 57. The nominations (in the order they were received) were:
Congratulations to Sumon Ahmed Sabir, Vincent Atienza “Achie” and Kam Sze Yeung on their re-election to the APNIC EC. They will each serve a two-year term of office.
The results are available to view.
Cooperation SIG
The Cooperation SIG is a forum for discussion about broader Internet issues such as public policy and Internet governance with a focus on information sharing, outreach, capacity building, and other activities that will advance APNIC’s vision for a global, open, stable, and secure Internet.
Discussion centred on the need for a skilled workforce in the Asia Pacific region to drive sustainable Internet development.
The Cooperation SIG had the following presentation:
- ITU – Technical Capacity Building for Internet Development (Sameer Sharma)
NIR SIG
The NIR SIG shares information relating to the operations, policies, and procedures of National Internet Registries (NIRs) with the aim of promoting close cooperation among the NIRs and with the APNIC Secretariat.
The NIR SIG had the following presentations:
- TWNIC Update (Tim Wang)
- JPNIC Update (Koki Nakagawa)
- VNNIC Update (Oanh Nguyen)
- CNNIC Update (Zhen Yu)
- IDNIC NIR Operation Update (Mukhammad Andri Setiawan)
- IRINN Update (Abhishek Mishra)
- Case study for the fee policy of TWNIC (Ching-Heng Ku)
Open Policy Meeting (Policy SIG)
The APNIC Open Policy Meeting (OPM) is an open forum to develop policies that relate to the management and use of Internet number resources within the Asia Pacific region. These include policies for resource allocation, recovery and transfer, and for resource registration within whois, reverse DNS, RPKI and related services.
The Open Policy Meeting (OPM) had presentations about the following:
- What happened with addresses in 2023 (Geoff Huston)
- What’s an ‘IP address’ these days? (Geoff Huston)
The following policy proposals reached consensus at the OPM and AGM:
The following proposals did not reach consensus and will go back to the mailing list:
Routing Security SIG
The Routing Security SIG provides a platform to discuss operational issues and best practices to secure global Internet routing. It also provides advice, support and technical review of policy proposals concerning routing security to advise the APNIC Community.
The SIG had presentations about the following topics:
- A Framework for Improving Internet Routing Security (Priya Shrinivasan)
- Carrier RPKI Implementation – the results and issues found (Phil Mawson)
- RPKI Data Results for APAC (Terry Sweetser)
- Research into Route Validation and RPKI as an alternative to Letters of Authority (Christopher Hawker)
Upcoming Conferences
APNIC 58
Wellington, New Zealand
30 August to 6 September 2024