Early Registration Transfer ProjectStatus Update

Outline

• Goals/Issues• Activities

– ASN– IPv4

• Timeline

Goals

• Transfer whois data to appropriate RIR• Improve member services

– No loss of data– Preserve information– ‘Regionalize’ presentation of data– Improve processes, protection

• RIR goal– Shared Reverse DNS processes for Ipv4

Issues

• Data accuracy– Out of date point of contact information– Some data superseded by newer RIR

information– Missing email/phone information

• Mostly manual process– Formletters, Procedures – Data conversion incurs manual overhead

(checking)

Activities

1 Document technical procedures (done)• Joint-RIR-mtg Toronto Nanog, June

2 Identify resources for transfer• ASN (done)

• Ipv4 (done)

3 Select /8 blocks for initial deployment• In progress (ARIN, APNIC)

4 Perform transfer /8 at a time● In planning

5 Structure project● Sanjaya is APNIC contact

ASN Activities

• ASN identified– 100 objects, people

• Letters to ASN holder sent• Whois objects created

– Hm/tech joint activity– Manual processes

• Exposed some issues– Maintainer format– Handover of 'ownership'

IPv4 Activities

• Initial list of target /8– Iniitially 2 entire /8 move to APNIC– (some JP /8 remain with ARIN, DNS

for /8 still requires ARIN to manage in-addr)

• Need to select first /8 and subsequent order for partial zone transfers– Number of discrete allocations in /8 will

influence order

IPv4 Activities cont

• Better person/maintainer procedures– Simpler name/nic-hdl generation process– Identify problems for manual processing

• Improve member & community communications

• DNS implications– Domain object creation– ‘preserve current DNS state’

IPv4 issues cont #2

• Documentation review• Update website(s) with list of networks

being moved & dates• Bed in shared DNS processes

– Work in progress

Timeline

• JuneERX project spec Toronto• Aug ASN relocation

–Precursor project: APNIC DNS procedures cutover to whois v3

–Aug 20 whois v3 deployment

–Identify initial /8, list of /8

–Update website

• 4 Q 2002–First /8 move planned