APNIC History

Serving the Asia Pacific Community since 1993 1993

The distribution of the registration APNIC is launched in to undertake resource function is desirable, and in keeping registration, information provision, network with that goal, it is necessary to operations support, and NIC cooperation for the develop a plan which manages the distribution of the network number Asia Pacific region space. The demand for network numbers has grown significantly within the last two years and as Jun Murai asks David Conrad, Delegates at the 1st APCCIRN a result the allocation of network working for Internet Initiative meeting in Honolulu decide numbers must be approached in a Japan (IIJ), if he’d be interested that Jun Murai & Masaki more systematic fashion. - RFC 1466 Hirabaru (WIDE Project/ in helping start up APNIC JNIC) would operate the Asia The pentium processor is invented Pacific Network Information Jun Murai gives a status report Centre (“APNIC”) experiment on the goals of the pilot project in cooperation with other to the 2nd APCCIRN meeting countries in San Francisco “To facilitate communication, business, and culture using The experiment was from David Conrad (APNIC’s first Internet technologies” September 1993 to June 1994 Director General) presents The World Wide Web is born an APNIC midterm status at CERN APNIC is established as a report at the APCCIRN/APEPG project in Tokyo by APCCIRN, meeting in Taipei, Development of CIDR support fully funded by JPNIC, and in routing protocols underway secures the domain name Japan has the fastest bandwidth APNIC.NET speed in the world, at 2.17 Mbps

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Staff IPv4 1994

In the early days, much of APNIC’s work is based on and around a few mailing lists hosted on a computer at the University of Tokyo Netscape releases the Navigator browser in October under the code IANA publicly recognizes The APNIC pilot project is name Mozilla APNIC’s status in the Asia reported as successfully In late 1994 SSL encryption Pacific region by delegating the completed at the APCCIRN/ is introduced to make IPv4 blocks 202/8 and 203/8 APEPG meeting in transactions secure for distribution Prague, Czech Republic CIDR and BGP4 deployment by The APNIC report at the major network operators across the CCIRN meeting in Amsterdam Internet records that APNIC has 27 JPNIC Members from 12 economies APCCIRN becomes the Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) KRNIC eCommerce arrives on the Internet:

AUNIC Pizza Hut offers online ordering

The first online bank opens

There are attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online

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Members Staff ASN IPv4 1995

The APNIC pilot project is deemed a success. Work continues as the “interim APNIC”. According to David Conrad “running a regional NIC is not for the weak of heart, shallow of mind, or shy of disposition” Java computer language invented

APNIC holds its first Meeting APNIC introduces three at Chulalongkorn University in member types into the , . It welcomes membership structure: ISP 82 attendees, is run by (Local IR), Enterprise, and DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or volunteers, and is free. Topics National Digital Video Disc) invented discussed centre on APNIC funding and membership fees APNIC leads the creation of the Asia and Pacific Rim Internet 1 Bangkok, Thailand Jon Postel, the RIPE NCC, Conference on Operational APNIC, and InterNIC Technologies (APRICOT) 2 Hawaii, USA start collaboration on drafting RFC2050, the first By the end of the year, APNIC The US Space Shuttle (STS-71) comprehensive description of staff comprises David Conrad, docks to the Mir space station for a global address management Masaya Nakayama, and the first time policy and procedures Yoshiko Chong Fong Internet users number 16 million, APNIC holds its second 4% of the population Meeting in Hawaii, in conjunction with APNG STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv4 1996

APNIC is successful in securing its long-term, Internet address space is independent existence by becoming a legal entity distributed according to the following three goals: 1) Conservation APNIC holds APNIC 3 in Kyoko Day joins APNIC full 2) Routability conjunction with the first time as the fifth member of 3) Registration ever APRICOT at the RELC staff, bringing the organization in to two full time and three part Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) time staff operate in large geopolitical regions The first APNIC Executive such as continents. Currently there Council (EC) is formed from APNIC is registered in the are three RIRs established; InterNIC the five economies financially as a non-profit, serving North America, RIPE NCC supporting APNIC. The international organization serving Europe, and APNIC serving inaugural EC includes: Singapore the Asia Pacific region. - RFC2050 - Geoff Huston (, APNIC membership has four 3 Chair) membership tiers: Large, Medium, Small, and Enterprise 4 Montreal, Canada - Jun Murai (Japan, Treasurer) Web TV invented - Tze Meng Tan APNIC’s equipment exists of (, Secretary) “two service machines and a - Sanjaya () router with connectivity to the - B A C Abeyantha () APNIC Secretariat provided by APNIC 4 is held as part of a 128 kbps link” the INET96 conference in Ebay started the online auction and Montreal, Canada shopping website

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Members Staff ASN IPv4 1997

This year, APNIC starts to investigate new locations for doing business and turns to the consultancy firm KPMG for assistance

APNIC 5 is held in APNIC 6 is held in along with APRICOT 97 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Secretariat notes at APNIC The American Registry of 5 that 108 Members in 24 Internet Numbers (ARIN) is economies are being served. chartered to take over from The Secretariat discusses InterNIC in 1998 APRICOT becomes the the introduction of the APNIC identifies the need to Asia Pacific Regional Internet Confederation membership NIC Conference on Operational category move from Japan due to the complexity of operation and to Technologies and adopts logo At APNIC 5, the minutes reduce cost designed by Bob Coggeshall. record discussion of critical Singapore became the second staffing limitations In its search for a new home base, APNIC is asked to country in Asia after Japan to APNIC 5 also features the consider “democracy, stability, be linked to the global Internet2 first formal election for and good IT infrastructure and infrastructure via the launch of the Singapore Advanced Research and EC positions. Dr Xing Li training”. , Australia 5 Hong Kong () and Prof Dr Srisakdi is identified as the most Education Network (SingAREN). Charmonman (Thailand) appropriate new location 6 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule are elected STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv4 1998

Without any interruption in normal services, APNIC moves into its new home in Brisbane

APNIC begins relocating In August, Paul Wilson joins to Brisbane, Australia, in five other staff in Brisbane: February, completing the move in August - Anne Lord, Senior Hostmaster and Trainer APNIC reregistered as an - Kyoko Day, Business Manager Australian company, APNIC - Paul Gampe, Senior Systems Pty Ltd Administrator The BGP table passes 50,000 - Connie Chan, Membership prefixes for the first time APNIC 7 is held at the Shangri- Officer La Hotel, Makati City, Manila, - Fabrina Hossain, Hostmaster , in conjunction with APRICOT 98 ICANN and the three RIRs operating at the time (APNIC, Google files for incorporation in Yoshiko Chong Fong continues ARIN and the RIPE NCC) California on September 4 to support APNIC’s hostmaster create the Address Supporting function from Tokyo during the Organisation Address Council transition to Brisbane. Kyoko (ASO/AC) under an MoU Day moves to Brisbane APNIC conducts its first David Conrad resigns as Member Survey Director General, and is 7 Manila, Philippines Apple Computer unveils the iMac replaced by Paul Wilson APNIC WHOIS queries pass 1,000,000 per month STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv4 1999

Under Paul Wilson’s direction, APNIC starts to build a broader suite of membership services, dedicating more resources to training, technical development, and communication

APNIC 8 is held with APRICOT The EC resolves to increase 99 at the Suntec Singapore the number of EC members International Convention & from five to seven, to increase Exhibition Centre, in Singapore the EC’s ability to draw from a wider geographical IANA delegates the initial IPv6 membership range address space to the RIRs to begin immediate global IPv6 The APNIC community adopts deployment its first IPv6 allocation and assignment policy All of APNIC’s primary allocation and assignment APNIC makes its first IPv6 You can create a live journal policies are brought together in allocation to the WIDE project on LiveJournal.com a single document APNIC begins work on Resource certification 6,000,000,000 The human population of the world Training launched during the APRICOT99 conference surpasses six billion 8 SingaporeFirst training courses in 1999: 5 economies (SG, HK, IN, PH, AU)

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2000

APNIC introduces the biannual meeting model, with a second standalone meeting rebranded the “Open Policy Meeting”. The OPM reflects the “Internet Model” of development, which is inherently open, transparent, and inclusive

APNIC 9 is held in Seoul, Korea APNIC membership grows in conjunction with APRICOT by a record 52% and the 2000 Medium, Large, and Very Large categories grow by APNIC introduces the Special at least 100% Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BoF) The previously self-determined sessions at APNIC 9. SIGs membership tier selection 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, help to provide an open public comes under review and a Australia forum to discuss topics of proposal is accepted to base 8 Seoul, Korea The billionth living person in interest to APNIC and the the minimum membership is born Internet community in the category on the amount of region. BoF sessions are address space held 9 Brisbane, Australia In December, the BGP table passes informal discussion groups 100,000 prefixes for the first time on topics of interest to the community 304 million Internet users, 5.0% of the population APNIC joins with the other RIRs on the Early Registration STATISTICS Transfer (ERX) project, which redistributes legacy address records along regional lines 602 23 230 14 353

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2001

APNIC awards founding Members with certificates at APNIC 12 to acknowledge and recognize the contributions they had made in helping APNIC establish and grow successfully

APNIC 11 is held in Kuala APNIC introduces a new Lumpur, Malaysia, in membership agreement conjunction with APRICOT after a two-year consultation 2001 period. The new agreement makes clearer statements The membership structure is of the democratic principles further refined and expanded underlying APNIC’s activities with the addition of a new and helps strengthen the Apple’s iPod released - would “associate tier” central role of the policy 11 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia eventually become the most popular APNIC removes the account development process portable media player on the market start-up fees to help lower APNIC conducts the second Wikipedia goes online the bar to enter into APNIC Member and Stakeholder The Dotcom Crash wipes billions membership Taipei, Taiwan Survey 12 off the tech stock market The membership structure APNIC issues the first 3G network technology becomes is expanded again to include APSTER newsletter Very Small and Extra Large available for commercial use first categories to provide more in Japan. options to accommodate different sizes of organization. STATISTICS APNIC 12 is held in Taipei, Taiwan. 699 31 220 25 360

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2002

APNIC launches the MyAPNIC Member portal and a multilingual helpdesk

APNIC 13 is held in Bangkok, APNIC announces a new Thailand, in conjunction with trial project with the Internet APRICOT 2002 Software Consortium (ISC) to deploy new instances of the APNIC launches a multilingual F-Root server across the region Helpdesk service to reflect the diversity of both APNIC staff APNIC joins the Internet and its membership Routing Registry (IRR) to assist with route filtering and router The MyAPNIC Member configuration services website significantly streamlines account APNIC adds IPv6 to the administration, billing, and apnic.net nameserver resource services for Members 13 Bangkok, Thailand LACNIC becomes the 4th RIR APNIC 14 is held in Kitakyushu, Japan € The Euro enters circulation 14 Kitakyushu,Japan The world’s first cyborg is created The dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2003

APNIC expands its training program to meet Member demand and now includes three levels of Internet resource management courses and a comprehensive DNS workshop

APNIC 15 is held in Taipei, APNIC becomes one of Taiwan, in conjunction with the first organizations to APRICOT 2003 become an International Telecommunication Union APNIC 16 is held in Seoul, (ITU) Sector-D member Korea The RIR Boards revise the APNIC enters into a MoU NRO MoU to undertake Taipei, Taiwan with the three other RIRs to joint activities, including 15 form the Number Resource joint technical projects, Organization (NRO) liaison activities, and policy APNIC deploys two F-root coordination nameservers in Taipei and SANOG, the network Concorde makes its last commercial Singapore bringing the total operations group for South 16 Seoul, Korea flight, bringing the era of airliner number of instances to five Asia, holds its first meeting in supersonic travel to a close, at least in the region Kathmandu, for the time being APNIC enters into an The human genome sequenced agreement with Netnod Autonomica to jointly deploy STATISTICS I-root servers 879 40 198 50 422

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2004

APNIC introduces live transcription at APNIC Meetings to encourage wider participation from the membership, especially during the Policy SIG sessions

APNIC 17 is held in Kuala Training services expand to Lumpur, Malaysia, in over 25 economies Facebook is launched conjunction with APRICOT APNIC participates in the 2004 Motorola RAZR V3 is released United Nations World Summit APNIC 18 is held in Nadi, on the Information Society “Web 2.0” emerges (WSIS) process PacNOG establishes a mailing list for ISP operations APNIC receives “Consultative 17 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia engineers in the Pacific region Status” recognition by the following APNIC 18 United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). APNIC helps establish I-root Consultative status provide server instances in Brisbane, NGOs with access to various Measuring 509m (1,671 ft) to the tip Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and United Nations human rights 18 Nadi, Fiji Singapore of its spire, Taipei 101 becomes the mechanisms tallest building in the world. It is the A new ASO MoU between first skyscraper to break the half- ICANN and the NRO creates kilometer mark. the NRO Number Council (NC) APNIC EXPANDS TRAINING TO OVER 25 ECONOMIES STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2005

APNIC reaches the significant milestone of 1,000 Members

APNIC 19 is held in Kyoto, APNIC participates as part Japan, in conjunction with of the NRO in the WSIS APRICOT 2005 Exhibition’s ICT4ALL Internet Pavilion in Kram PalExpo as a APNIC 20 is held in Hanoi, way of increasing knowledge of the Internet model YouTube - the online video sharing APNIC collaborates with the of development and viewing community - is invented RIPE NCC to deploy the K-root APNIC Helpdesk deploys by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and live webchat Jawed Karim. The first YouTube APNIC begins applying digital video posted was posted by co- certificate technology to certify founder Jawed Karim at the San Internet number resources, 19 Kyoto, Japan Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April following the model provided 23, 2005. by RFC3779 1,018 million internet users, 15.7% of AFRINIC emerges as the the population 5th RIR 20 Hanoi, Vietnam France has the fastest bandwidth at 200,000 Mbs, with China at 136,106 Mbs

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2006

To reach an even broader audience, APNIC begins trialling web-based training delivery, known as eLearning

APNIC 21 is held in Perth, The NRO, ICANN and ISOC Australia, in conjunction with jointly host a new Internet APRICOT 2006 Pavilion at the ITU Telecom World event in Hong Kong APNIC 21 features the first of many sessions dedicated to fee APNIC holds 38 training discussions sessions in 17 locations APNIC 22 is held in APNIC takes action to improve Kaohsiung, Taiwan the routability of newly The first tweet was written by allocated address space and co-founder Jack Dorsey on March APNIC holds a major panel Perth, Australia clean up poor nameserver 21 21, 2006 session at APNIC 22 titled configurations “IPv4 exhaustion: what’s the The one billionth song is purchased real story”, featuring Paul from Apple iTunes Wilson, Tomoya Yoshida, Pluto is demoted to “dwarf planet” Maemura Akinori, and Geoff 22 Kaohsiung, Taiwan Huston status APNIC Helpdesk launches a Google purchases YouTube for VoIP telephony system for all US$1.65 billion in stock Members, allowing free phone calls to the Helpdesk STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2007

At APNIC 24 in New Delhi, the APNIC community resolves to actively promote the adoption of IPv6 and focus efforts on the comprehensive deployment of IPv6 in the region

APNIC 23 is held in Bali, In 2007, networks in China Indonesia, in conjunction with become the largest consumers APRICOT 2007 of IPv4 addresses in the region APNIC 24 is held in New Delhi, APNIC deploys the Nominium India, in conjunction with authoritative nameserver to SANOG 10 meet rigorous security and Apple Introduces the iPhone stability requirements in the The APNIC EC determines on June 29th Asia Pacific region Bali, Indonesia that APNIC fees will be set in 23 Amazon releases the kindle Australian dollars APNIC now supports over 20 root nameserver deployments Singapore Airlines is the first airline APNIC launches “Apstats” to fly the new Airbus passenger jet to graphically display live, APNIC membership A380 on scheduled service between interactive reports of APNIC’s reaches 1,500 Singapore and Sydney, Australia resource and membership 24 New Delhi, India statistics By the end of 2007, ecommerce sales accounted for 3.4 percent The APNIC community adopts of total retail sales. a policy to begin the phased introduction of 4-byte ASNs STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2008

APNIC introduces the IPv6 Program to meet the changing demands of the community and to help Members transition smoothly to IPv6 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest- energy particle accelerator, is APNIC urges operators and with MyAPNIC upgraded to considered “one of the great service providers to “begin include GUI-based access to engineering milestones of mankind”. planning for this transition as resource certification Built by the European Organization soon as practically possible” so for Nuclear Research (CERN) they are able to provide IPv6 APNIC joins the 6DEPLOY support and IPv6 services by project, part of the European In March, the BGP table passes 2010 Union’s 7th Framework 250,000 prefixes for the first time Program, as a APNIC 25 is held in Taipei, sponsoring partner Internet access is disrupted in the Taiwan in conjunction with Middle East and India due to breaks APRICOT 2008 APNIC extends the RIPE NCC in submarine cable systems in the test Traffic Measurement 25 Taipei, Taiwan Mediterranean APNIC hosts its inaugural (TTM) project by helping meeting, to establish and operate 12 By 2008 Google had processed over “Partnering toward IGF in Asia” servers around the Asia Pacific 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) region unique URLs, while the number of APNIC 26 is held in individual web pages was growing Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand APNIC launches the 26 by several billion per day and the Information Society Innovation IPv6 connectivity showcases number of individual users had Fund (ISIF) to help advance reached nearly 1.5 billion at the Open Policy Meetings local and regional Internet IPv4 consumption dominates technology projects for the STATISTICS policy discussions benefit of Asia Pacific users and communities The first phase of the Resource 1855 62 418 160 984 certification project goes public Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2009

As APNIC’s primary method of sharing valuable information, the apnic.net website is redeveloped, driven by a robust content management system

APNIC 27 is held in Manila, APNIC’s makes available all of Philippines, in conjunction with its online services via native APRICOT 2009 IPv6

APNIC 28 is held in Beijing, APNIC starts a phased project Scientists engineer new plastics China to implement Domain Names without the use of fossil fuels Security (DNSSEC) Extensions APNIC participates in the to establish authenticity and The mouse genome is sequenced ITU World Technology Policy integrity of the domain system Manila, Philippines 3D scanning enters the Forum as an ITU-D sector data 27 member, by responding consumer market on behalf of the RIRs to APNIC starts assigning 4-byte The first exoplanet that could the Telecommunication ASNs by default when contain liquid water is discovered Standardization Bureau receiving requests questionnaire on IPv6 address allocation APNIC and the RIPE NCC 28 Beijing, China announce they are running MyAPNIC undergoes a RPKI prototypes in an effort to redesign secure the Internet’s routing system The APNIC community adopts Sina Weibo is established a proposal which provides for a sanctioned approach to STATISTICS address resource transfers 2170 63 436 185 1065

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2010

APNIC launches “Kickstart IPv6” to make the IPv6 deployment process as easy as possible

“Kickstart IPv6” means that With the implementation of existing IPv4 holders can the new fee schedule, from 1 automatically receive an January 2010, APNIC develops IPv6 allocation through the a new Fee Calculator to assist MyAPNIC website. Members with calculating their fees APNIC 29 is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, APNIC is a co-organizer of in conjunction with the Asia Pacific regional IGF APRICOT 2010 (APrIGF) 29 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia APNIC holds a community APNIC participates in three consultation at APNIC 29 to ITU-related processes, Apple debuts the iPad encourage multistakeholder discussing matters including IP Scientists create synthetic life input into ITU IPv6 discussions addressing and cybersecurity (IPv6 Group, WTDC, ITU Scientists trap antimatter APNIC 30 is held at the Plenipotentiary (PP-10) Gold Coast, Australia 30 Gold Coast, Australia Speech-to-speech translation is APNIC relocates to its new common in mobile phones APNIC makes 402 kickstart premises in South Brisbane allocations to more than 1,966 million Internet users, 25 economies, including 12 28.7% of the population economies that receive their first allocation STATISTICS

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2011

APNIC’s request to IANA for two unused /8 blocks of IPv4 triggers the final global distribution policy where IANA makes an equal and final allocation to the five RIRs

APNIC 31 is held in Hong Kong APNIC launches the in conjunction with APRICOT IPv6 Capability Tracker in time 2011 for World IPv6 Day APNIC 32 is held in Busan, APNIC completes DNSSEC implementation, allowing APNIC Members to “digitally The NRO announces in sign” their DNS records 31 Hong Kong The world’s first synthetic transplant February that the free pool of occurs available IPv4 space is fully ISIF Asia introduces the ISIF depleted Asia Awards to acknowledge 7,000,000,000 the important contributions Global population reaches 7 billion In April, APNIC makes its last ICT innovators have made with regular IPv4 allocation and Multi-touch surface computing creative solutions to the social 32 Busan, South Korea starts allocating from the last and economic development of enters the consumer market /8 block the Asia Pacific region Estimated total online retail sales APNIC launches APNIC APNIC Training: 2,599 of merchandise during 2011 Labs in response to one of participants (eLearning and at $188.1 billion the five priorities revealed Face-to-Face), 36 locations from the 2009 Member and STATISTICS Stakeholder Survey 2947 70 495 620 1475

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2012

APNIC’s service offering expands to include transfers with APNIC establishing a sanctioned mechanism to allow transfers of IPv4 addresses both intra and inter-regionally

APNIC 33 is held in New Delhi, APNIC launches a transfer India, in conjunction with broker registration service, APRICOT 2012 complemented by a pre- approval service that allows APNIC 34 is held in Phnom recipients to seek pre-approval Penh, , with the of their IPv4 address needs first ever, highly successful, workshop week APNIC participates in the 33 Hong Kong World IPv6 Launch as a APNIC and the RIPE NCC website operator formalize a close working relationship with a MoU APNIC Chief Scientist, Geoff Huston, is inducted into the Twitter reaches the half billion ISIF Asia joins with AFRINIC’s Internet Hall of Fame accounts mark in June 2012. Jakarta FIRE and LACNIC’s FRIDA 34 Busan, South Korea is the top city by number of Tweets programs to form the Seed APNIC participates on followed by Tokyo and London Alliance to promote innovation behalf of the NRO in the and support Internet World Conference on 2,405 million Internet users, 34.3% development on a wider scale Telecommunications of the population (WCIT-12), helping to APNIC processes the first inform discussion about STATISTICS inter-RIR transfer between the updates to International ARIN region and an APNIC Telecommunications Member Regulations 3534 71 581 562 1075

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2013

As of June 2013, research suggests that 1.29% of Internet users (about 29.3 million people) prefer “to use IPv6 when presented with a dual stack object to fetch”. It is not the end of the IPv4 era, either for APNIC as a registry or its Members

APNIC 35 is held in Singapore systems in place to deliver as part of APRICOT 2013 a quality experience for all Members and stakeholders APNIC celebrates its 20th anniversary at APNIC 36 in APNIC’s Vision Xi’an, China 35 Singapore By early 2013, almost 48% of For a global, APNIC Members held both open, stable, and IPv4 and IPv6 address space - compared with RIPE NCC secure Internet (62%), LACNIC (54%), ARIN that serves the (38%) and AFRINIC (32%) entire Asia Pacific 36 Xi’an, China APNIC receives ISO community 9001:2008 Certification. ISO Sina Weibo passes 9001 is an internationally 500 Million users recognized quality management standard that provides assurance that APNIC STATISTICS has the type of management 3779 68 306 255 744

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2014

The US government signals its intention to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the global Internet community. The IANA IPv4 Recovered Pool is triggered. Many APNIC Members request and receive additional blocks of IPv4 space

APNIC 37 is held in Petaling Telecommunications and Jaya, Malaysia, as part of Information Administration APRICOT 2014 (NTIA) announces its intention to transition the APNIC 38 is held in Brisbane, IANA functions from the US 37 Jaya, Malaysia 40% of world’s population with Australia government’s stewardship to Internet access In May, IANA’s Recovered Pool the Internet community 3B Internet users; two-thirds of of IPv4 addresses to the RIRs is Paul Wilson is appointed to world’s Internet users are from triggered when LACNIC’s pool the IANA Stewardship developing economies of available IPv4 space falls Transition Coordination 38 Brisbane 3,000,000,000 below a /9. APNIC receives a Group (ICG), responsible for /11, allowing APNIC Members coordinating the development to request a small block of IPv4 of a proposal among the Mobile cellular subscriptions reach space communities affected by the almost 7B (3.6B in AP region) APNIC participates in the IANA functions NetMundial Conference in STATISTICS April 2014 The US Department of 4,051 70 646 484 3914 Commerce’s National Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2015

Maemura Akinori and Che-Hoo Cheng retire from the APNIC Executive Council after 16 and 18 years of service respectively. APNIC membership reaches a milestone, surpassing 5,000 direct Members

APNIC 39 is held in Fukuoka, APNIC improves MyAPNIC Japan, as part of APRICOT by increasing speed and 2015.APNIC 40 is held in responsiveness; modernizing Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the design; and simplifying the largest ever stand-alone tools to manage objects. APNIC conference, with 529 Fukuoka, Japan attending APNIC implements instant 39 feedback service mechanisms APNIC launches a new fee to provide timely feedback and 42.4% of world’s population with schedule with reductions in further improve services to Internet fees for all account holders. Members APNIC direct membership 3.2B Internet users exceeds 5,000 organizations in The APNIC Blog wins ‘Best 40 Jakarta, Indonesia August 2015 Blog’ at the Asia Pacific 3,200,000,000 Excellence Awards in Long-standing APNIC Singapore Executive Council members, 7B+ mobile cellular subscriptions Maemura Akinori and Che- Hoo Cheng, retire from STATISTICS the EC. APNIC recognizes their contribution and gives sincerest thanks for their 5268 76 881 785 4498 leadership Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2016

A historic milestone is reached with the successful transition of the IANA functions. APNIC welcomed its 6,000th Member during the year. 2016 also set new records in the number of delegations across IPv4, IPv6, and ASNs, with IPv6 growth surging

APNIC 41 is held in Auckland, The APNIC Executive New Zealand, as part of Council passes the “Colombo APRICOT 2016 Declaration” to thank the APNIC community for its important APNIC 42 is held in Colombo, contribution to the transition Sri Lanka Auckland, New Zealand The APNIC Foundation is 41 APNIC expands its training officially incorporated in services with the development Hong Kong in September. of a new online training portal, The Foundation aims to 47% of world’s population with APNIC Academy, and the secure alternative sources of Internet expansion of face-to-face funding to support APNIC’s training with nine recognized development services to meet 42 Colombo, Sri Lanka 3.4B Internet users Internet operational experts increasing demand for training, 3,400,000,000 volunteering as Community infrastructure support, and Trainers technical assistance The global Internet community APNIC works closely with the celebrates the successful Tongan community on the STATISTICS conclusion of the IANA creation of the first CERT in the stewardship transition, which Pacific Islands, CERT.to occurs at midnight on 30 5,994 75 881 785 4498 September 2016 Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2017

Improving the APNIC registry, growing regional IPv6 capability, increasing community participation, and enhancing resource data and statistics reporting are the key aims for APNIC in 2017, reflecting the theme ‘Building the NIC in APNIC’

APNIC 43 is held in Ho Chi IPv6 deployment growth Minh City, Viet Nam, as part of remains a key aim with the APRICOT 2017 percentage of Members holding IPv6 increasing from 50% to APNIC 44 is held in Taichung, 57% and total regional IPv6 Taiwan capability rising from 7% to 19% Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam 43 50% of world’s population with APNIC launches the APNIC The APNIC Foundation Internet Academy, with 1,852 enrolling welcomes three members to 3.8B Internet users worldwide in the first two courses, and the APNIC Foundation Board:

318 receiving a completion Ms Sylvia Sumarlin from 3,800,000,000 certificate Indonesia, who is the Chair of Taichung, Taiwan APNIC focuses on improving the Federasi Teknologi Informasi 44 the APNIC registry, upgrading Indonisia; Mr Edward Tian from 4.9B unique mobile users worldwide; the whois server codebase, China, who is the founder and 3.9B mobile subscriptions in the Asia implementing a new ‘organization Chairman of China Broadband Pacific object’ and rolling out, ‘whowas’, Capital Partners; and Mr Sharad a new interface that allows Sanghi from India, who is users to view the history of Managing Director and CEO of STATISTICS registry records in a Netmagic timeline format 6,557 77 1,226 1,377 2,235

Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2018

Supporting network security across the region was a priority, including increasing RPKI and ROA adoption, through training, engagements and collaboration

APNIC 45 is held in Kathmandu, Members with resource Nepal, as part of APRICOT 2018 certificates grew to 21.9% up from 13% in 2017, and APNIC 46 is held in Nouméa, those with Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) grew to 11.3%, up from 7.4% in 2017 Kathmandu, Nepal IPv6 adoption increased, with 45 Blockchain technology is invented to the proportion of Members APNIC focuses on Pacific protect cryptocurrency transactions holding IPv6 resources reaching #apricot2018 engagement and support in 2018 61% and total IPv6 capability KATHMANDU 45 NEPAL 2018, with new CERTs officially 19 – 28 February 2018 reaching 22% launched in PNG and , 21 training sessions in 9 Pacific economies, and training held for 46 Nouméa, New Caledonia the first time in 5G, the fifth generation of wireless

#apnic46 technology is developed. It promises 46 NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA 6 – 13 September 2018 speeds in excess of 1Gbps

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4 2019

Routing security was in the spotlight, with APNIC 48 dedicating several sessions to RPKI. Policy developments caused significant changes to IPv4 delegations, but IPv6 adoption continued its steady growth

APNIC 47 is held in Daejeon, The IPv4 recovered address South Korea, as part of pool and waiting list was APRICOT 2019 abolished with all remaining and recovered IPv4 addresses being APNIC 48 is held in Chiang Mai, managed in a single pool Thailand Daejeon, South Korea APNIC’s Product Management 47 For the first time APNIC held approach was fully adopted an RPKI Deployathon and ROA

in 2019, with separate cross- 2019 #apricot2019

Signing Social at APNIC 48. A 47 DAEJEON SOUTH KOREA functional teams dedicated 18 – 28 February 2019 Routing Security SIG was also to Registry, Membership and formed Information Products Chiang Mai, Thailand Maximum IPv4 delegations 48 were reduced from a /22 to a IBM announces the first commercial /23 as a result of policy changes quantum computer, the IBM Q System One

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Members Staff ASN IPv6 IPv4