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First NIR Meeting

Current NIR Address Request Process Overview and Proposal

March 1st, Korea, Seoul

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Motivation

Objective• Improve request form

• Request form is unchanged since 1997 • Does not suit both NIRs and ISP confederations

– Different membership structures

• Improve current IPv4 procedures • Procedural framework inconsistent

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Current Status & Problems

APNIC-075• Requires detailed information

• Assignments by members, assignments by NIR, allocations by NIR, reservations by NIR

• 80% utilisation required• Including reservations

• Trigger allocation • If free pool is not large enough

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Current Status & Problems

• Volume• NIR requests up to 2MB in size• Compiling data time-consuming• Evaluating data difficult

• Timeliness• Pressure on all concerned

– 20% remaining

• Queries hold up the address allocations for all

• Incomplete data• All data should be reported• 20% free of last allocation often missed

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Current Status & Problems

• Database consistency• Assignments and allocations not registered• NIC handles referring to missing/incorrect data• Problem larger when infrequent contact

• Management overhead• IR system is delegated authority• Increasing number of layers increases complexity

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Current Status & Problems

• Differing methodologies• Trade-off with local procedures and need for

consistency• All NIR operate in different procedural framework

• Some definitions• Allocation window

– Amount of address space an NIR is able to allocate to LIR without seeking a second opinion from APNIC

• Assignment window– Amount of address space an LIR can assign to its

customers without seeking a second opinion from NIR

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Current Status & Problems

AllocationWindow

AssignmentWindow

APNIC-065(or similar)

TWNIC No Yes Yes

CNNIC Yes Unknown Yes

JPNIC No Yes No

KRNIC No No No

APJII Yes Planned Yes

• Procedural framework

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Proposals

• Allocation window• Followed by each NIR• Would need a form similar in structure to

APNIC-065• APNIC would evaluate a subset of requests

• Assignment window• Implemented by NIR for its members• Consistent across region• Assignments monitored carefully

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Proposals

• APNIC-075 simplified• List of allocations and reservations• Possible if allocation and assignment window

implemented– more efficient than current form

• Training document• For hostmasters by hostmasters• ‘how to evaluate’ requests• Examples of scenarios and difficult cases

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Proposals

• Workshops for NIRs• For hostmasters held at least once a year with all

hostmasters• Sharing of experiences, difficult cases..

• The future• Software development• Once approved, NIRs able to obtain next

contiguous block for their members – better for routing table aggregation

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Questions/comments?