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addressing the Internet in the Asia Pacific 2019Annual Report 2019 ANNUAL REPORT Contents Executive Council 3 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 39 Introduction from the Director General 4 APNIC Conferences 40 Welcome from the EC Chair 7 Regional Technical Development 42 APNIC in the Internet ecosystem 8 Community Engagement 51 Vision, Mission and Strategic Direction 9 APNIC Foundation 58 APNIC's Activities 10 GLOBAL COOPERATION 60 External Engagement Summary 11 Global Technical Community 61 2019 in Numbers 13 Global Research 63 Financial Performance Summary 14 Inter-governmental Outreach 64 Notes on the Activities 15 CORPORATE 65 SERVING MEMBERS 16 Human Resource Management 66 Membership Growth 17 Finance and Administration 69 Membership Industry Type 18 Legal and Governance 71 Registration Services 19 Facilities 72 Customer Service 28 FINANCIALS 73 Technical Infrastructure Services 32 Supporters 77 Member Training 36 Appendix: 2019 Events List 78 2 2019 ANNUAL REPORT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Chair Benyamin P. Naibaho Principal, Global Network Development (GND) Head of Indonesia Internet Exchange (IIX) & Data Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center - Operation and Development, Asosiasi Penyelengara Jasa Internet Indonesia (APJII), President Director, PT. Cyber Network Indonesia Rajesh Chharia, Secretary Kam Sze Yeung President, Internet Service Providers Senior Manager, Network Architecture, Association of India (ISPAI), Akamai Technologies CEO, CJ Online Private Limited Kenny Huang, PhD, Treasurer Yuedong Zhang Chair and CEO, Assistant Director, TWNIC CNNIC Yoshinobu Matsuzaki Paul Wilson, Ex-officio Senior Engineer, Director General, Internet Initiative Japan Inc APNIC 3 2019 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL 2019 was an eventful year for the Internet in the Changes to IPv4 delegations. with significant progress on MyAPNIC and RDAP Asia Pacific. Here’s a snapshot of APNIC’s activities Policy developments in 2019 caused significant development, the Internet Directory, an RPKI during the year, with more detail to follow, in this changes to IPv4 delegations in the APNIC region, “Resource Tagged Attestation” pilot, and new Annual Report. with the reduction of the maximum delegation size “MVPs” for security and number resource quality from a /22 to a /23. In addition, the IPv4 recovered management (DASH and NetOX). Routing security in the spotlight. address pool (and waiting list) was abolished, with Two major BGP leaks in early 2019 reminded all remaining and recovered IPv4 addresses now Expanding training capabilities. us all of routing security as a growing challenge being managed in a single pool. Seven new Community Trainers were recruited for network operators around the world. So this to support face-to-face training, bringing the was the focus at APNIC 48, with dedicated RPKI IPv4 address depletion continues, IPv6 adoption total to 22. This distributed team supported 39 of deployment sessions and keynote, a four-day grows. APNIC’s 69 face-to-face training sessions in 2019. Advanced BGP & ROV workshop, APNIC’s first ever In November, the RIPE region announced it had The APNIC Academy added a five-module online ‘RPKI Deployathon’, a ROA Signing Social, and an exhausted its IPv4 free pool; in comparison, IPv6 Fundamentals course, as well as multilingual RPKI BoF that led to the creation of a new Routing 17.49% of APNIC's final IPv4 /8 (103/8) remained support in eight languages – Chinese (Simplified Security/RPKI SIG. Throughout the year, APNIC unallocated at the end of the year. IPv6, however, and Traditional), Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, continued to help Members to use RPKI, promoted continued its growth in mainstream deployment in Mongolian, Thai and Vietnamese – to allow more RPKI online and at NOG events, and worked with the APNIC region: 64% of APNIC Members held users to complete training in their native language. NIRs on their RPKI deployments; we also promoted IPv6 resources (up from 61% in 2018), and 30% of In total, 1,971 community members completed Route Origin Validation (ROV) and the use of ROAs end-users in the region were measured by APNIC face-to-face training and 870 courses were as the most important application of RPKI. Labs as IPv6 capable (up from 22% in 2018). completed online. RPKI adoption increased dramatically in the APNIC Developing products that match community needs. Focus on security. region as a result (to 31% of Members, from 22% APNIC’s Product Management approach was fully In addition to delivering 33 security training in 2018); and the registration of ROAs more than adopted in 2019, with separate cross-functional sessions, APNIC’s security specialists participated doubled (to 26% of Members, from 11%). teams dedicated to Registry, Membership and in 19 engagements with the security community Information Products. The changes have helped globally (including the law enforcement 4 2019 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL – CONTINUED community); and expanded the APNIC community G APNIC grew from 2,170 to 7,776 Members, honeynet project with new partners from six and from 65 to 82 full-time staff economies (feeding data into DASH). G The APNIC Foundation was established The end of an extraordinary decade. 2019 was the final year of a decade with many G APNIC developed many new services, milestones and achievements. Between 2010 and capabilities and improvements to benefit the end of 2019: Members G APNIC was the first RIR to reach its final IPv4 I’m looking forward very much to APNIC’s next /8, signalling the beginning of IPv4 exhaustion decade, beginning with a new four year strategy just launched. APNIC will be working hard for G IPv4 transfers were introduced, firstly the community, on new registry, training and between APNIC Members and then between information services, growing engagement with the RIR regions community, and continued growth of the APNIC Foundation; all towards our vision of a global, open, G IPv6 moved from an uncertain prospect into stable and secure Internet. wide-scale production deployment Thanks again for your support of APNIC and G RPKI grew from a research project into a helping build this community’s bright future. practical tool for improving infrastructure security G The stewardship of the IANA functions was successfully transitioned to the Internet community Director General 5 2019 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAIR On behalf of the Executive Council (EC), I’m pleased Over several months, the APNIC EC, executive team adjustment is to help mitigate cost inflation borne by to present the 2019 APNIC Annual Report. and all Secretariat staff contributed to the development the Secretariat over the past eight years. of the new strategy, which is now available as the By the time Members get to read this report it will be APNIC Strategy Plan (2020-2023). Informed The EC is conscious that fee increases, no matter how the end of APRICOT 2020, the 25th APRICOT event. through feedback from Members and the minor, are rarely popular. However, the EC takes its As many of you may know, APRICOT was the brainchild community, the document sets out the future that responsibility of maintaining the long-term financial of APNIC’s first Director General, David Conrad, and APNIC wishes to see, the objectives and priorities health of APNIC seriously. We are also committed to its creation was the beginning of APNIC’s proud that need to be achieved to help reach that future meeting the wishes of Members (as expressed in the history of helping support and develop the technical state, and the guiding principles underpinning 2018 APNIC Survey) to achieve a minimum financial community in the Asia Pacific. APNIC’s efforts. reserve equivalent to 18 months of operating expenses. We appreciate your understanding and support, but That work continues to this day, as you’ll read in this This will be the last Annual Report that reports if you have concerns, please do get in touch. document. APNIC participated in 231 community APNIC’s activities under the existing outcome areas engagements last year, supported 21 Network Operator of Serving Members, Regional Development, Global Foundation momentum continues to grow. Group (NOG) meetings, trained 1,971 network Cooperation and Corporate. The new five I’m pleased to provide another positive update on the professionals, and hosted two conferences for 1,136 “strategic pillars” – Membership, Registry, progress of the APNIC Foundation this year. 2019 was delegates. It was a busy year for APNIC. Development, Information and Capability – are the the Foundation’s third year of operation after it was areas under which all APNIC activity will be grouped established with the aim of raising funds, independent Paul’s opening remarks capture many of the highlights, for the next four years and thenew 2020 Activity Plan of Member contributions, to benefit the community but I’d like to add some other developments in 2019 adopts these pillars. through supporting APNIC’s Internet development that have long-term importance to the EC. activities, mainly in training and technical assistance. I encourage you to take the time to look at the Refreshing APNIC’s Strategic Direction. strategy and please share any thoughts you have. Three new Director appointments were made, with Every four years, the EC and Secretariat work to develop the addition of Danish A. Lakhani, Michael Malone a new strategic direction to guide APNIC’s activities. Maintaining long-term financial health. and Jun Murai to the Foundation Board. An additional As 2019 was the final year of the previous strategic The EC’s discussions around APNIC’s future AUD 889,000 in funding was secured, bringing direction, it was time to develop the new one. direction also considered APNIC’s financial position, the total funding raised since inception to AUD 2.4 leading to the changes to fees announced at the end of 2019. The 6 2019 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAIR – CONTINUED million.