Operational Policies for NIRs in the APNIC Region

NIR Meeting

APNIC14, Kitakyushu, Japan4 Sept 2002

New Definitions

• NIR-LIR member– Describes the LIR member of an NIR

• Delegation– Transfer of Internet resources from one

organisation to another through assignment or allocation

Request Process ‘Allocation Request‘ (New)

• NIR sends APNIC ‘allocation request’ when it approves allocation ≤ NIRs AW– Specific instruction to APNIC to make an

allocation for NIR-LIR member– Needs to include all necessary database

information– NIR has sole authority on request approval– Allocation will be made within one working day

(could be automated in future)

• Objective to promote aggregation– NIR does not receive separate allocation as

allocations now selected from APNIC pool

Request Process ‘Second Opinion’

• Existing procedures apply – NIR sends APNIC ‘second opinion’ when

request > NIRs AW– APNIC evaluates request and

recommendation from NIR– Small change: allocation made from

APNIC pool rather than NIR pool

• Objective to promote aggregation• Both procedures depend on NIR

implementing APNIC policies

Other Procedures

• Database Registration– NIR responsible for maintaining registration

records for address delegations

• In-addr.arpa– Uses ‘domain’ objects– One zone file for each IANA IPv4 /8

• /16 and /24 zones in same (flat) file

– Identical process in IPv6• One zone file for /16 IANA allocation boundary• /36 and /32 directly in same (flat) file

In-addr.arpa Continued

• Update cycle currently 2-hourly 24/7– Fast propagation to external DNS

• Direct allocation by APNIC– APNIC creates ‘inetnum’ object and

‘domain’ object for NIR on /16 or /24 boundaries

• ‘Domain’ objects will be inactive• ‘mnt-by’ attribute will reflect NIR for both

domain and inetnum objects

NIRs and DNS Management Procedures continued

• Either use APNIC whois– Activate ‘domain’ objects with correct NS

information– Using APNIC whois guarantees 2hr update

cycle

• OR APNIC mirrors NIR whois domain objects– Add zones to APNIC zonefile– Timely zone updates dependant on mirroring

schedule

• Future: using RPSL compatible live mirror retains data management in NIR

Pipelined process with external NIR whois data

Get NIRWhoisdata

Sort &Collate

New filter to only accept NIR managed zone information

Get Whoisdata

Sort &collate

Filter

NotifyDNS

CheckFor

zone change

Makezones

Filter

Transfer of Membership APNIC-NIR

• APNIC allows members to join NIRs in their country

• LIRs address space holdings transferred to NIR and contributes towards NIRs fee assessment– No ‘per address fee’ charged on NIR– No further charges on LIR by APNIC

Transfer of Membership NIR-APNIC

• NIRs allow members to join APNIC• Management of address space and

records transferred to APNIC– Member no longer receives service from

NIR

• Membership tier assessed at next renewal according to all NIR & APNIC allocated space– NIR impose no charges relating to

resources previously allocated

Next Steps

• Finalise NIR Operational Policy Document– Incorporating any amendments

• Merge document with ‘Criteria for the Recognition of NIRs in the APNIC Region’

• Secretariat to implement document within 3 months of consensus on document

Questions?