BdNOG 2015: APNIC Service Improvement 2015

Issue Date:

Revision:

10/11/2015

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Dinesh Bakthavatchalam

[email protected]

APNIC Service Improvements 2015

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Agenda

• Whois data quality improvement – Why is it important?– What’s on APNIC’s Services Roadmap– What can you do to help?

• What’s new in MyAPNIC– MyAPNIC 2015 survey– MyAPNIC Improvements

• New APNIC labs tool– Using VizAS

Whois data quality improvement

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Why is whois data quality important?

• Supports the security and operation of the Internet

• Fulfills the goals of addressing policy

• Networking trouble shooting and abuse

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What’s on APNIC’s Services Roadmap

• Unused whois objects cleanup

• Promoting IRT (Incident Response Team) object

• Simpler whois registration guide

Unused whois objects clean-up

• Deletion of unreferenced person and role objects that are over 12 months old

• Script runs on the 15th of each month to delete unreferenced objects

• Deleted objects will be backed up

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Promote IRT object

• Incident Response Team – Designated contacts for network abuse reporting

• Policy implemented 8 Nov 2010– Mandatory reference for inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num– Required for all objects created or updated

• However, not all Members created their IRT object

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Creating IRT for Members

• Nearly 300 Members without IRT object

• 284 IRT objects created using their existing contact information

• Members requested to verify their IRT objects

• 284 IRT objects were referenced to 1552 resource objects

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New “remarks” for resource objects

– remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+– remarks: To report network abuse, please contact the IRT– remarks: For troubleshooting, please contact tech-c and admin-c– remarks: For assistance, please contact the APNIC Helpdesk– remarks: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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What is next?

• A simple and clear whois guide is on its way

• Email reminder to be sent before membership renewals to verify accuracy of whois registration

• Improved MyAPNIC features to simplify whois updates

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What can you do to help?

• Updating resource usage in the whois database

• Keeping whois contacts up to date

• Maintaining your APNIC account contacts

• Reporting any invalid whois contacts to APNIC

What’s new in MyAPNIC?

APNIC Survey

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May 2015 June 2015 July 2015

Brainstorming sessions

Continuous improvements

15 July – Survey launched 4 August – Survey completed

How did it go?

Total Responses Completed responses Completion rate

708 546 77%

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2016 Services Roadmap

• Authorized contact management

• Reverse DNS management

• Whois records management

• Route and ROA management

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Success story

• May 2015: APNIC Outreach in Bangladesh– 13 organizations visited– Onsite support to create ROA objects

561 valid prefixes (24%)

http://rpki.surfnet.nl/bd.html

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World leaderboard

http://rpki.surfnet.nl/country.html

As of 4 Nov 2015

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Story in South AsiaResource Certification enabled Members

As at 26 July 2015

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Create your ROA now!

• Almost 75% of the prefixes without ROAs

• Ease of ROA creation with MyAPNIC improvements

• Helpdesk is only a skype call away (ID: apnic-helpdesk)

One last update from APNIC Labs

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VizAS

• Visualization of BGP peering relationships

• Both IPv4 and IPv6

• Sources of data:– University of Oregon’s Route View Project– Number Resource Organization (NRO)– RIR’s registry (RDAP)

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Explanation

https://labs.apnic.net/vizas

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Explanation

ASNs with more downstreams are displayed closer to the centre


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Explanation

Lowest ASN shown at the top, followed by higher ASNs in a clockwise direction


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Explanation

Darker nodes/path means there are more IP addresses involved in that route


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Visual representation of ASN peers in Bangladesh


Questions?

Thank [email protected]

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