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addressing the Internet in the Asia Pacific 2018Annual Report 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Contents Executive Council 3 Regional Technical Development 33 Introduction from the Director General 4 Community Engagement 39 Welcome from the EC Chair 5 APNIC Foundation 47 APNIC in the Internet ecosystem 6 GLOBAL COOPERATION 49 Vision, Mission and Strategic Direction 7 Global Technical Community 50 APNIC's Activities 8 Global Technical Community Cooperation 51 2018 in Numbers 9 External Engagement Summary 53 Financial Performance Summary 10 Global Technical Community 55 Notes on the Activities 11 Inter-governmental Outreach 57 SERVING MEMBERS 12 Global Research 58 Membership Growth 13 CORPORATE 60 Membership Industry Type 14 Human Resource Management 61 Registration Services 15 Finance and Administration 63 Customer Service 21 Legal and Governance 64 2018 APNIC Survey Snapshot 25 Facilities 65 Technical Infrastructure Services 26 FINANCIALS 66 Member Training 29 Supporters 70 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 31 Appendix: 2018 Events List 71 APNIC Conferences 32 2 2018 ANNUAL REPORT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Chair Izumi Okutani Principal, Global Network Development (GND) Programme Manager, Business Taskforce, Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Rajesh Chharia, Secretary Jessica Shen President, Internet Service Providers Association of Director of IP Operations, India (ISPAI), China Network Information Center (CNNIC) CEO, CJ Online Private Limited Kenny Huang, PhD, Treasurer Kam Sze Yeung CEO and Board Member, Senior Manager, Network Architecture, TWNIC Akamai Technologies Benyamin Naibaho Paul Wilson, Ex-officio Head of Indonesia Internet Exchange (IIX) & Data Director General, APNIC Center – Operation and Development, APJII, President Director, PT Cyber Network Indonesia 3 2018 ANNUAL REPORT INTRODUCTION FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL 2018 was another big year for APNIC and the Internet in Vanuatu; the APrIGF was held in Vanuatu; and APNIC in 2018. We saw the community getting more involved the Asia Pacific. Here’s a preview of APNIC’s activities held 21 training sessions for 577 participants in nine and I hope the momentum can continue in future. during the year, which are explained in detail in this Pacific economies – including CERT workshops in Annual Report. Tonga and New Caledonia – and training in Tokelau for Playing our part in the global community.During the very first time. More than 160 members of PNG’s APNIC’s rotation year as the NRO Chair, the five RIRs More Members, greater adoption of IPv6 and RPKI. technical community participated in APNIC’s largest cooperated on projects including RDAP consistency, APNIC’s membership reached two milestones in 2018, ever training and technical assistance project ahead transfer processes, whois accuracy improvements, with the number of direct Members passing 7,000 of the APEC Summit in Port Moresby. RPKI measurements, and the NRO website refresh (7,162) and total organizations served (including the was completed. Thoughtful contributions from the Members of the NIRs) passing 15,000 (15,678). Building training services. APNIC Academy, the online, APNIC community also helped progress the ASO self-paced learning portal, received a major refresh Review recommendations in 2018. As membership grew, so did adoption of IPv6 and RPKI. with five new courses added in 2018. The Academy’s The proportion of Members holding IPv6 resources new virtual labs also give trainees genuine hands-on Gathering your feedback. Finally, the 2018 APNIC reached 61% in 2018, and total IPv6 capability in the experience on major vendor platforms. APNIC recruited Survey received important feedback from 1,241 region reached 22%. In RPKI development, 21.9% eight new Community Trainers – bringing the total to respondents. The survey results were very positive, and of APNIC Members now have resource certificates 15. The new trainers helped APNIC reach 2,156 training help us to understand how APNIC can keep improving and 11.3% have created Route Origin Authorisations participants in 2018. services. This input will be particularly useful as the (ROAs), up from 13% and 7.4% respectively in 2017. APNIC EC develops the next four year strategic plan Increasing security capability across the region. (for 2020-2023) during this coming year. Improving the registry to serve Members better. The Supporting network security was a priority across APNIC registry system now uses ‘event sourcing’ to the Asia Pacific. APNIC participated in 32 security Thanks again for your support of APNIC and your maintain its authoritative database state, increasing engagements with Members, law enforcement continued participation in this vibrant community. reliability and recoverability. Registry security was agencies, CERTs and the security community in 2018. strengthened with ‘bcrypt’ added as a more up-to- We also continued our work with FIRST to bring more date password encryption algorithm. In MyAPNIC, security content into both APNIC conferences, and to new tools were developed to help Members maintain support their Annual Conference in Malaysia. Paul Wilson accurate whois data. Director General Encouraging participation the Policy Development Supporting the Internet in the Pacific. APNIC 46 Process. From increased promotion online and at in New Caledonia was APNIC’s first Pacific island NOGs, to translated proposal summaries, a new APNIC conference in 14 years . During 2018, new CERTs were Academy policy course and more, significant effort went officially launched in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and into supporting the APNIC Policy Development Process 4 2018 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAIR Dear APNIC Members and Stakeholders, Looking ahead in 2019, the EC will develop APNIC’s new information towards the back of this report, APNIC Four Year Strategic Direction (2020-2023), for which continues to manage its expenditure responsibly in Once again, I am pleased to present the 2018 APNIC the survey inputs serve as guideposts. Key themes line with its revenues, which grew slightly in 2018. Annual Report on behalf of the Executive Council. around policy engagement, training, Internet security, the transition to IPv6, and data benchmarking are An important part of the EC’s role is to ensure the During 2018, APNIC achieved a lot. Paul has touched priorities to be considered for the strategic planning. organization remains financially healthy, and APNIC on many of the highlights on organizational, operational has been very stable in that regard. However, with and community successes. But I’d like to highlight Another important thing I want to discuss is the available IPv4 address space likely to end in the next progress on our longer-term strategic direction. progress on the APNIC Foundation. The Foundation two years, the EC is aware of potential uncertainty on was established in 2016 with the aim of raising funds, the horizon. Preparing the organization for a range of The APNIC Survey, held every two years, is the primary independent of Member contributions, to support future scenarios will form part of our strategic planning method for the EC to gauge the performance of the APNIC’s Internet development activities, mainly this year and beyond. Secretariat and to understand the needs and expectations in training and technical assistance. 2018 was the of Members. Thank you for participating in the 2018 Foundation’s second full year of operation. With the If you have feedback for the EC on any aspect of APNIC, survey. The number of responses (1,241), the non- initial Board appointments made and more than 1 I invite you to share it with me or my EC colleagues at English response (31%), and the geographic spread million AUD in funding raised to date, we consider it any time. It was great to speak with so many Members across the community was widely representative. The as ‘kickstarted’ successfully. this year at APNIC’s conferences, and especially results showed high satisfaction levels across APNIC’s pleasing to welcome Members to Kathmandu, in my services, value for money and overall performance. The APNIC Foundation is an important initiative, and home country of Nepal, for APRICOT 2018. the early signs of success point to a promising future The EC and Secretariat have worked to strengthen to help APNIC carry out its mission that benefits not I look forward to continuing the dialogue with you APNIC’s transparency and feedback measures every only APNIC Members but also the entire Asia Pacific in 2019. Thanks again for your continued support year since 2015, so it is great to see that those efforts Internet community. The EC will continue to monitor of APNIC. are appreciated by the community. We are very the Foundation’s progress closely as it evolves in the encouraged by the highly positive survey response coming years. on APNIC’s reputation and governance. Finally, I wanted to comment on the positive financial Gaurab Raj Upadhaya health of APNIC. As you will see in the financial 5 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW APNIC in the Internet ecosystem The Internet ecosystem includes many different organizations cooperating to perform necessary roles. Internet users rely on organizations which provide access, applications and content. Those Governments/ Regulators providers rely on the support of others to provide technical standards, resource registries, Industry At-large associations communities guiding regulations, a trained workforce, and a favourableaddressing social/business the Internet environment in the