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APNIC Whois and Policy UpdateElly Tawhai

NZNOG 2018 26-01-2018

Outline Recent Whois changes

Future focus

APNIC Policy update

Next meetings

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APNIC Whois database upgrade Motivation

To take advantage of enhanced syntax, new flags, and attributes

To have a better operational testing platform (dry-run updates)

To provide richer APNIC database query options to the public

Implementation in stages

To ensure smooth transition

For more details refer to:

https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/whois_search/whois-upgrade/whois-database-upgrade-plan/

https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/whois_search/whois-upgrade/whois-database-upgrade-plan/

New attribute last-modified

The attribute last-modified indicates when an object was last updated

Replaces changed attribute

Lead to deprecation of the changed attribute

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Implementation of last-modified

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From

To

Implementation of last-modified Implementation in two phases

Phase 1 Introduction of last-modified Database updates submitted containing changed attribute accepted, but warning

message received

Updates automatically changed to contain last-modified

Implemented in September

Phase 2 Use of changed will be obsolete Updates containing this attribute no longer be accepted

Tentative implementation date after APRICOT 2018

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Organization object

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New object type in the APNIC whois

database

Contains information about an

organization that has been

delegated IP address space or AS

numbers

Easy way of mapping delegated IP

addresses or AS numbers to the

organizations that have received

them

Organization object advantage

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Organization

IPv4

ASNIPv6

whois.apnic.net -i org -T inetnum, inet6num, aut-num

How are organization objects created?

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New APNIC accounts when resources get delegated

Existing APNIC accounts MyAPNIC

Org object creation status

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78%

22%

APNIC Members

49%51%

NZ Members

With

With

Without

Without

Org objects - Whats next for you Check your company information

Update info via MyAPNIC if needed

Org object created once details have been verified

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Future focus APNIC Whois quality

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Who will benefit

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APNIC Whois

APNIC and NIR

Members

End Users

Law

Enforcement

Agencies

CERT

Community

Research

organizations

Geolocation

providers

Governments

Initiatives Improving IRT contacts

Removing orphan objects

Improve invalid contact reporting

Establishing whois guidelines

Recent policy changes

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Proposal Title Overviewprop-116 Prohibit to transfer IPv4

addresses in the final /8

block

Prohibits 103/8 transfers which delegated from the

final /8 free pool less than 5 years

prop-121 Updating Initial IPv6 allocation policy

To allow a larger requirement than the standard /32

for a larger network

prop-122 Updating Subsequent IPv6 allocation policy

To allow larger subsequent allocation, which doubles

the current resource delegation

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals

All invited!

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https://2018.apricot.net/register

Later

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APRICOT 2019Daejeon, Republic of Korea

18 to 28 February 2019

APNIC 46 Noumea, New Caledonia6 to 13 September 2018

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Thanks!