IAA Newsletters
This month marked 10 years since IAA announced the launch of a peering point in South Australia, heralding the further expansion of our IX-Australia peering network.
SA-IX’s 10th birthday was officially celebrated on Monday 27 February. Here’s to another 10 years – and hopefully many, many more!
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Voting is now open for the APNIC Executive Council (EC) election. If you are a member of APNIC, IAA strongly encourages you to vote.
APNIC is the organisation responsible for the distribution and management of IP addresses and AS numbers in the Asia-Pacific region. The APNIC EC is responsible for the management of APNIC’s activities and functions, including its strategic direction and budget on behalf of APNIC members. The constitution of the EC can have a great impact on the Internet landscape and community in Australia, and more globally. IAA is firmly committed to stability and reliability in the management of Internet resources and considers the continuing good governance of APNIC to be essential to this cause.
As it’s a member-driven organisation, it is important that you use your vote, and do so wisely to ensure a well-rounded and appropriate EC.
We strongly encourage you to:
- carefully consider the candidates
- ensure the candidate you vote for appropriately represents the Internet community and works in the best interest of the Internet.
Voting closes 14:30 AWST (UTC +8) Thursday 2 March 2023.
Further information on the nominees and processes can be found on the APNIC nominations page.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) ASN 16509 peering on NSW-IX has recently advised our technical team of a typo in their LAG IPv6 address. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a large number of NSW-IX members peering with an incorrect IPv6 address.
To rectify this issue, AWS has requested that all peers check and reconfigure the address if required. Please see the information below:
Incorrect: IPv4 218.100.52.9. IPv6 2001:7fa:11:4:0:470d:0:1
Correct: IPv4 218.100.52.9. IPv6 2001:7fa:11:4:0:407d:0:1
If you would like any further information regarding this matter, please get in contact with AWS via peering-apac@amazon.com
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You may have noticed our email earlier this month about the APNIC EC Election. But what exactly is APNIC and why does it matter to you?
APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific Region. It is one of 5 such registries across the world. RIRs manage the allocation and registration of Internet number resources (IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers) in their respective regions. Nothing gets on the Internet without an IP address connected to an Autonomous System, and each must be unique, though we have ways of sharing them given the number of devices connected to the Internet now exceeds the number of IPv4 addresses.
Through this technical coordination, RIRs play a very important role in supporting the infrastructure of the Internet, as well as in Internet Governance. As independent, not-for-profit, and member-based organisations, RIRs operate for the benefit of the wider Internet community.
In recent times, the global Internet community has witnessed other RIRs struggle to operate particularly in the context of the fight over limited IPv4 addresses. As the Internet continues to evolve to heights much greater than anyone imagined at its conception with more and more people jumping online, protecting the sound management of Internet resources and promoting Internet policies is critical to ensure the resilience and continued growth of the Internet.
Although the overarching Number Resource Organisation (NRO) serves as a coordinating body for the 5 RIRs, each RIR distributes resources according to its own policies that have been developed in its respective region via open, bottom-up policy development processes. This bottom-up governance structure is to respect the autonomy of each region. As such, the constitution of the Executive Council (EC) of an RIR is very important to how it functions.
With the voting for the APNIC EC election now open, IAA encourages all members who are also members of APNIC to utilise your vote carefully and wisely to ensure the protection of the Internet community. Voting closes 14:30 AWST (UTC +8) Thursday 2 March 2023.
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IAA’s public policy work has already kickstarted, holding the first PPAP meeting of 2023 this month. Although we were missing a few members, we still had lively discussions including an update on IAA’s public policy work since the fourth quarter of 2022, upcoming consultations on Internet policy issues, and even a debate on the need for a CSP registration scheme.
We are always welcome to hearing our members’ thoughts and concerns on issues affecting the Internet industry, so please do share any comments you may have by email.
