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Apply online for your APNIC membership and Internet number resources. www.apnic.net/member If you would like to find out more information Join the on APNIC membership, IP addresses or other APNIC services, please contact one of our community friendly Member Services staff for assistance. We offer support in eight languages including, Becoming an Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Mandarin, and Thai. Member enables you to get the Internet resources you need, quickly and easily. You can also access other services such as We also operate a live chat service that is hands-on training, research and development material, and available from 09:00 to 21:00 (UTC+10), world-class conferences. Monday to Friday. Email [email protected] Chat www.apnic.net/helpdesk Phone +61 7 3858 3188 VoIP [email protected] APNIC Member Services We’re here when you need us! www.apnic.net This document is printed on recycled paper WHY JOIN APNIC? Be in control ● Get your own independent Internet number resources Have your say ● Participate in regional policy discussions to manage Internet resources Share knowledge ● Participate in global IP measurements and other research More benefits: ● Learn how to effectively manage ● Make informed network and your Internet resources and resource consumption decisions deploy key technologies, such with authoritative research data from as IPv6, with APNIC’s hands-on APNIC Labs infrastructure training ● Meet with your peers to discuss the ● Guide APNIC’s future direction latest Internet deployment practices through Member surveys and and networking technology trends at feedback sessions APNIC Conferences www.apnic.net/member Current and prospective Members can speak directly to APNIC Services staff or book a private consultation at APNIC Conferences and other events. 3 WHAT IS APNIC? JOIN OUR APNIC is the Asia Pacific The APNIC community What is an IP address? COMMUNITY Regional Internet Registry is open to anyone with an A globally unique (RIR), responsible for interest in Internet number identifying number distributing Internet Protocol resources, including that devices need to Become an APNIC Member today! (IP) addresses - IPv4 and IPv6 ISPs, content providers, communicate over the - and Autonomous System government agencies Internet. There are two (AS) Numbers. and regulators, and other versions, IPv4, which is 32 Becoming an APNIC Member is commercial organizations. bits long, and IPv6, which APNIC is one of five RIRs APNIC Members are from is 128 bits long. a quick and easy way to apply for operating in the world today 56 economies in the region. and was established in 1993. What is an AS Number? your first Internet number resource Over the last 20 years, it has APNIC is a membership- A globally unique number grown into a predictable, based service organization, that identifies a particular delegation. Simply visit the APNIC stable, and mature primarily responsible for Autonomous System (AS). organization, with more than the active management of An AS is a group of routing website to get started. 4,000 Members. Internet resources through prefixes that maintains a community driven policy a unique routing policy, www.apnic.net/member development process. controlled by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Members receive these services: Membership fees Reverse DNS delegation, which maps IP The APNIC Whois Database, the official record IP addresses and AS Numbers are shared, public resources. addresses to domain names in the Domain of organizations that hold Internet resources APNIC Members are given custodial rights over the Name System (DNS). The DNS is a hierarchical in the region. APNIC operates a cross- blocks they are delegated. APNIC charges fees to cover database that provides a distributed directory referenced whois database that can be queried the administration costs in managing these resources and service mapping from names to values. The directly to determine the ISP responsible for providing other services. primary function of the DNS is to allow you to a particular resource. Having this information reach a website address by typing in a specific readily available is important for instances of Initial fees domain name, for example, www.google.com. troubleshooting or enforcement. The DNS translates this into an IP address New Members pay AUD 2,425 when applying for resources for so devices can read it. Reverse DNS does the www.apnic.net/usingwhois the first time. This consists of the “Associate Member Fee” of opposite of this process, translating IP addresses AUD 675 and the “IP Resource Application fee” of AUD 1,750. into domain names. APNIC provides reverse APNIC provides critical services to support DNS services to all Members by registering the technical coordination of the Internet. Annual fees reverse delegations. This is particularly This includes: important for email services, to ensure that an IP ● Technical infrastructure training APNIC Membership is renewable each year. On the address maps to the correct domain name. ● Conference events and discussion forums anniversary of opening your account, your annual fee ● Research and statistical data (APNIC Labs) is recalculated based on your total resource holdings. www.apnic.net/dns For more information, contact [email protected]. www.apnic.net/services www.apnic.net/fees 4 5 TRAINING Courses offered Customized training Keeping up with current technologies and deployment strategies is challenging. APNIC offers training courses on a variety of APNIC can provide customized training on a cost-recovery basis to suit the particular APNIC offers several hands-on training technical Internet topics. They are designed requirements of organizations. These can be tailored to fit with the knowledge level of the trainees courses to equip Members with the to expand capability, knowledge, and and includes comprehensive hands-on sessions to equip your employees with the skills needed technical skills required to build and understanding of infrastructure technologies to be effective. The Engineering Assistance program offers follow-up support to all training manage their networks. Training the so participants can embrace industry participants. region’s operators on the fundamentals current practices. We are focused heavily on of Internet infrastructure is vital to the delivering practical IPv6 deployment skills to continuing health of the Internet. the region’s networking operators. A critical Sponsors step in deploying IPv6 is to train staff on how Our training courses are offered in online, to build a dual-stack or native IPv6 network. APNIC is proud to partner with regional organizations wishing to host or sponsor training events. face-to-face, and customized formats APNIC provides training as a service to the community, however nominal fees are charged to and are constantly evolving to meet the Training courses include: cover travel and accommodation costs incurred. Fees are charged according to three categories: changing needs of network operators. Category A for developed economies; Category B for developing economies; and Category C for ● Routing least developed economies. ● DNS ● Internet Resource Management (IRM) training.apnic.net ● Internet technologies ● IPv6 ● Network Security Face-to-Face training eLearning APNIC provides face-to-face training in APNIC also offers web-based training free of tutorial or workshop formats. These are held charge as a cost-effective way to accommodate in locations throughout the region, often in geographical distance and differing time zones. partnership with local organizations. eLearning is a convenient choice for trainees, enabling them to participate when and Tutorials where they want. To enhance the interactive experience, trainers connect with students via Tutorials are composed of presentations and instant messenger chat and use features like demonstrations and usually last from one to virtual whiteboards and screen sharing. two days. Four one-hour courses are delivered to three Workshops time zones fortnightly, targeting the South “I must commend your concentration spans and how you Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific/Oceania continued to elaborate on each slide, point by point, accurately… Workshops have additional presentations and subregions. What kept me tuned with the training was the fact that whether demonstrations and usually last between two it is a complicated topic or fairly easier one, your persistence and five days, depending on the requirements discussing the topic and elaborating and sharing examples would of the group. They feature hands-on network always broaden what I already know”. building exercises in the APNIC virtual training lab. The lab simulates the topology of an ISP Seorn Thomas with multiple operating regions. PBX Systems Engineer (Network Services) 6 7 APNIC EVENTS APNIC Conferences Meet with your Internet community peers Program Fellowships at APNIC Conferences to discuss current networking and deployment issues. Engage The program includes a full week of training To support regional Internet growth in developing economies, APNIC offers Conference with the world’s leading Internet and ICT sessions with APNIC Trainers and featured Fellowships. If you are from a developing economy and have not attended an APNIC Conference, professionals in technical forums; discuss real- guests, plenary and panel sessions, and social we encourage you to apply for a Fellowship package, which includes: world IPv6 deployment efforts; and have your networking