APNIC Update

Paul Wilson

Director General

The last 10 years of APNIC

• Staff numbers grew from 6 to 59• Office increased from 218 to 1138 sqm• Membership grew from 191 to 1855• IPv4 allocations grew from 0.29 /8s to

5.26• The number of RIRs grew from 3 to 5• The number of root servers in the region

grew from 1 to 36, with APNIC supporting 22

APNIC in 2008• Services

– MyAPNIC upgrade – Fifth member and stakeholder survey (2009)

• Communications– Internet Governance activities – APNIC eLearning– APNIC.net redesign project

• Technical – Resource certification

• Business– Business Continuity Plan

APNIC on the global stage

• Internet Governance – IGF India– ITU Telecom Asia, Bangkok– OECD Ministerial meeting, Seoul– ICANN meetings

• NRO– Global policy developments– Cooperation

Challenges for the Future

• IPv4 exhaustion

• IPv6 deployment

• Internet Governance

• Security

• Impact of economic downturn

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