RIR Status Report
IEPG
August 2001
Overview
 Membership Growth
 Resource Status
 Outreach
 RIR Specifics
19
93
19
94
19
95
19
96
19
97
19
98
19
99
20
0
Ja 0
nFe 01
bM 01
ar
-0
A 1
pr
M 01
ay
-0
Ju 1
n01
RIR Membership
3000
2500
2000
APNIC
ARIN
RIPE NCC
1500
1000
500
0
IANA Delegations
ARIN 5%
2% APNIC
4% RIPE NCC
36%
Unallocated
Other Orgs.
(pre-RIR)
53%
IPv4 Global Allocations
 For 2000
 79.8m allocated in total
 4.63 /8s
 APNIC:
21.5 million (1.28 /8s)
 ARIN:
38.2 million (2.28 /8s)
 RIPE NCC:
20.1 million (1.20 /8s)
IPv4 Global Allocations
 For 2001 (January – June)
 43.3 million allocated in total
 2.58 /8s
 APNIC:
12.4 million (0.74 /8s)
 ARIN:
17.3 million (1.03 /8s)
 RIPE NCC:
13.6 million (0.81 /8s)
AS Number Assignments
8000
7000
6000
5000
APNIC
ARIN
RIPE NCC
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 - June
IPv6 Allocations - Total
 Total of 93 RIR Allocations (/35s)
 Top 3: USA (17), Japan (17), and Germany (8)
 Bootstrap criteria phase almost complete
(100 ends bootstrap phase)
 Allocations
 APNIC
 ARIN
 RIPE NCC
34%
32
20
41
APNIC
ARIN
22%
RIPE NCC
44%
IPv6 Policy Document
 Ongoing revision
 Bootstrap extension?
 Global assignment policy for IXPs?
 IAB/IESG recommendation (/48)
 Recent Developments
 Separating technology and policy
 Removing TLA, NLA, SLA boundary language
RIR Coordination
 Current Efforts
 IPv6 policy document
 New ASO document series
 Continuing Efforts
 Statistics
 Joint presentations
 Operational coordination
ASO/Emerging RIRs
 ASO/ICANN
 Lyman Chapin elected by ASO AC as ICANN Director
 Emerging RIR document ratified by ICANN Board
 ASO AC elections ongoing
 Emerging RIRs
 LACNIC
 ARIN visited LACNIC facilities in April 2001
 Transition plan meeting at ARIN (July 2001)
 Open policy meeting November 2001
 AfriNIC
 Open policy meeting held in May 2001 at Accra, Ghana
Outreach
 Objectives
 Raise awareness
 Promote industry self-regulation
 Activities
 Meeting with
 government representatives
 industry groups
 Conducting training
 Newsletters
Open Policy Meetings
 APNIC
 28-31 Aug 2001, Taipei
 In conjunction with APRICOT
4-7 Mar 2002, Bangkok
 ARIN
 28-31 Oct 2001, Miami
 Apr 2002 – location TBD
 RIPE
 1-5 Oct 2001, Prague
 14-18 Jan 2002, Amsterdam
RIR Specifics
APNIC
 Certification authority
 Member-only website under development
 Demo at APNIC meeting
 RIR routing registry
 Feasibility study underway
 Second member survey
 Undertaken by KPMG
 Extensive consultation in region
 Policy
 Proposal for portable allocation criteria
ARIN
 Improved/updated RWHOIS
(testing begins this month)
 New database schema and registration
software (Q4 2001)
 IN-ADDR.ARPA
 /8 servers operational
 migration of /8s in progress
RIPE NCC
 DB migration completed by October
 Working with APNIC to use same code
 RS improved
 Staffing level significantly increased
 Different prioritising (requests > questions)
 Improved response time
 RIS further developed
 Route collector will be in APNIC region, Tokyo
 Policy
 Initial allocation criteria established
Questions?