Transcript APNIC NIR Meeting What is an NIR? Paul Wilson, APNIC ASIA PACIFIC NETWORK INFORMATION CENTRE.

APNIC NIR Meeting
What is an NIR?
Paul Wilson, APNIC
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Background – NIR Meetings
 Initiated as informal hostmaster session
 For policy review, training, networking (1999)
 Became gradually more structured
 Wider issues, agendas, and reports (2000)
 Chaired by Seung-Min Lee, KRNIC
 Now held as open sessions
 Since proposed and agreed in KL (3/2001)
 Chair: Akinori Maemura, JPNIC
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Background – NIR Meetings
 Major topics …
 Operational and hostmaster matters
Original purpose of meeting
Now move to “Hostmaster Workshop”
 NIR staff exchange
Coordinating and reporting on NIR staff visits to
APNIC
 NIR policies
Review, comparison, and refinement
Intention to converge on consistent policies
Allocation procedures - “agent model”
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Background – NIR Meetings
 Major topics, continued …
 NIR fee and membership structure
Concerns about voting and fee issues
KL Meeting: response from APNIC EC
 Criteria for new NIRs
Review and comparison with existing NIRs
 Ongoing discussion: What is an NIR?
KL, March 2001
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What is an NIR?
 Or: Where is an NIR?
APNIC
NIR
 Somewhere between RIR and LIR
 But where? …
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LIR
What is an NIR?
 Where is an NIR?
NIR LIR
APNIC
 Closer to RIR member?
Yes:
 Pay member fees
 Vote at meetings
But:
 They are not and cannot be ISPs
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What is an NIR?
 Where is an NIR?
LIR
APNIC NIR
 Closer to RIR?
Yes:
 Similar structure, responsibilities and operations
 Independent from ISPs
But:
 Treated like APNIC members in other respects
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What is an NIR?
 Current status
APNIC
NIR
LIR
 Can we improve on this?
 Efforts so far…
Role and responsibilities (New NIR discussion)
Operational Model
Membership Model
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Role and responsibilities
 Core operational responsibility
 Review, negotiate and resolve requests
 Maintain whois and reverse DNS
 Coordinate local policy process
 i.e. Same as APNIC’s role
 Support and service for LIRs in country
 Local language and knowledge
 i.e. Opportunity to improve APNIC’s service
and efficiency, to do a better job
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Operational model
 Original model…
APNIC
IP
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Request
Negotiate
Allocate
NIR
IP
Request
Negotiate
Allocate
LIR
IP
Asynchronous request process
Intermediate pool of addresses held by NIR
Serious fragmentation
Serious address management problem for ISPs
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Operational model
 “Agent” model…
APNIC
IP
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Approve
NIR
Request
Negotiate
Allocate
Coordinated request/approval/allocation
Single pool of addresses
Greatly reduced fragmentation
Efficient management of address space
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LIR
IP
Operational model
 Implication of “Agent” model?
Request
Negotiate
APNIC NIR
IP
Allocate
LIR
IP
 NIR operates closer to APNIC
 All NIR members/ISPs are APNIC members
 NIR is no longer a member but an “agent” in some
closer sense
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Membership Model
 Problems raised about fees and voting
 No solution proposed yet
 But problems taken into account in current
proposal for new categories
 Implications of agent model on
membership?
 Potentially fundamental change
 Needs discussion and initiative from NIRs
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Conclusions?
 NIR operating model
 Extend “agency” model of allocation?
 Standardise for all NIRs and NIR members?
Can we decide this ?
Solution to one major policy issue
 NIR membership model?
 Need a special member agreement?
 Future of NIRs?
 Especially: New NIRs in future?
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Questions?
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