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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?