apnic service improvements 2015
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Issue Date:
Revision:
10/11/2015
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Dinesh Bakthavatchalam
APNIC Service Improvements 2015
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Agenda
• Whois data quality improvement
• What’s new in MyAPNIC
• New APNIC labs tool
Whois data quality improvement
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Why is whois data quality important?
• Supports the security and operation of the Internet
• Fulfills the goals of addressing policy
• Networking trouble shooting and abuse
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What’s on APNIC’s Services Roadmap
• Unused whois objects cleanup
• Promoting IRT (Incident Response Team) object
• Simpler whois registration guide
Unused whois objects clean-up
• Deletion of unreferenced person and role objects that are over 12 months old
• Script runs on the 15th of each month to delete unreferenced objects
• Deleted objects will be backed up
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Promote IRT object
• Incident Response Team – Designated contacts for network abuse reporting
• Policy implemented 8 Nov 2010– Mandatory reference for inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num– Required for all objects created or updated
• However, not all Members created their IRT object
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Creating IRT for members
• Nearly 300 Members without IRT object
• 284 IRT objects created using their existing contact information
• Members requested to verify their IRT objects
• 284 IRT objects were referenced to 1552 resource objects
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New “remarks” for resource objects
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remarks: To report network abuse, please contact mnt-irt
remarks: For troubleshooting, please contact tech-c and admin-c
remarks: Report invalid contact via www.apnic.net/invalidcontact
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What is next?
• A simple and clear whois guide is on its way
• Improved MyAPNIC features to simplify whois updates
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What can you do to help?
• Updating resource usage in the whois database
• Keeping whois contacts up to date
• Maintaining your APNIC account contacts
• Reporting any invalid whois contacts to APNIC
What’s new in MyAPNIC?
APNIC Survey
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May 2015 June 2015 July 2015
Brainstorming sessions
Continuous improvements
15 July – Survey launched 4 August – Survey completed
How did it go?
Total Responses Completed responses Completion rate
708 546 77%
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What’s important?
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10.00%15.00%20.00%25.00%30.00%35.00%40.00%45.00% 41%
36% 36%30% 28%
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2016 Services Roadmap
• Authorized contact management
• Reverse DNS management
• Whois records management
• Route and ROA management
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Success story
• May 2015: APNIC Outreach in Bangladesh– 13 organizations visited– Onsite support to create ROA objects
561 valid prefixes (24%)
http://rpki.surfnet.nl/bd.html
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World leaderboard
http://rpki.surfnet.nl/country.html
As of 10 June 2015
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Story in South AsiaResource Certification enabled Members
As at 26 July 2015
Bangladesh
Bhutan India Sri Lanka Nepal Pakistan0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
22.03%
40.00%
11.51%
53.33%
13.16%15.31%
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Create your ROA now!
• Almost 75% of the prefixes without ROAs
• Ease of ROA creation with MyAPNIC improvements
• Helpdesk is only a skype call away (ID: apnic-helpdesk)
One last update from APNIC Labs
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VizAS
• Visualization of BGP peering relationships
• Both IPv4 and IPv6
• Sources of data:– University of Oregon’s Route View Project– Number Resource Organization (NRO)– RIR’s registry (RDAP)
• Analyze the network topology and grow the Internet infrastructure
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Explanation
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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Explanation
ASNs with more downstreams are displayed closer to the centre
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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Explanation
Lowest ASN shown at the top, followed by higher ASNs in a clockwise direction
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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Explanation
Darker nodes/path means there are more IP addresses involved in that route
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas
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Visual representation of ASN peers in Bangladesh
https://labs.apnic.net/vizas