Dear Policy SIG participants,
As a mid-term report, please let me share the summary of the resource
management system working group as follows.
I need more participants for the working group (WG) mailing list (ML)
from now on until the APNIC 23. Please join and give your opinions!
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1. Co-chair resignation
Terry Manderson stepped down from the co-chair position due to his
concern about his status as secretariat. However, he is an active
participant to the WG ML.
Nobody has offered him/herself as a candidate yet. Please let the chair
know or post to the WG ML if anyone would like to take the role.
2. E-mail deprecation proposal (prop-037)
The URL of the proposal can be found at:
http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-037-v001.html
2.1. Pro opinions for prop-037
- This kind of discussion may take for a long time.
- Considering new technologies such as DNSSEC and resource
certification, increasing security for bulk updating method for APNIC
RMS would be good idea.
- E-mail registration interface isn't user-friendly.
- MyAPNIC doesn't address secure automated registration. The new
proposed XML interface solves this.
- Longer term cost reduction to both members and APNIC.
- Faster updates
2.2. Con opinion for prop-037
- This affects existing in-house IT systems which are optimized for
current e-mail application. This could be pressure cost-wise for small
LIRs.
- MyAPNIC already exists for who prefer secure registration.
2.3. Proposed implementation schedule for prop-037
In the proposal, the implementation periods as follows:
- 4 months after adoption: Stop accepting email updates for
domain objects
- 8 months after adoption: Stop accepting email updates for
inetnum, inet6num, and aut-num
objects
- 12 months after adoption: Stop accepting email update for the
remaining object types
The secretariat asked if these periods are appropriate.
2.4. Alternative/Counter proposed schedule for prop-037
An alternative implementation schedule for 2.3. has been proposed from a
participant:
(period (action)
after
adoption)
- 6 months: Start accepting all objects via new method
- 10 months: Stop accepting domain objects via email
- 14 months: Stop accepting inetnum, inet6num, and autnum
objects
- 18 months: Stop accepting all remaining objects.
Then, APNIC secretariat suggested the following schedule:
(period (action)
after
adoption)
- 6 months: Prototype available that accepts all objects via new method
- 10 months: production system stop accepting domain objects
via email and start accepting domain objects via new method
- 14 months: production system stop accepting inetnum, inet6num,
autnum objects via email, and start accepting inetnum,
inet6num, autnum objects via new method
- 18 months: production system stop accepting remaining RPSL objects
via email and start accepting remaining RPSL object
via new method
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Cheers,
Shin
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Shin Yamasaki
Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC)
