A Closer Look at IPv4 Transfer

1. Issue Date:
Revision:
A closer look at IPv4
transfer
BDNOG3
Tuan Nguyen
[18 May 2015]
[1]

2. BD Membership growth
0
50
100
150
200
250
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total BD Members
2

3. South-Asia Membership growth
3
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total Members in South-Asia

4. Can you still get IPv4 from the APNIC
Pool?
21%
8%
71%
103/8
/22 Partial Available
23%
0%
77%
Non 103/8
/22 Partial Available
4

5. What are we
going to talk
about?
5
• IPv4 Transfers
• Who can do it?
• How you can do it
• Tips
• Conditions

6. Issue Date:
Revision:
Who can do it?

7. Who can do it?
7
• Transfer of IPv4 between you and
– Other APNIC Members
– Members from other RIR’s eg. ARIN

8. Transfer between APNIC Members
8
• Most common transfer request
• So far BD has received 11 transfers
• Transfer logs http://ftp.apnic.net/transfers/apnic/

9. Transfer between APNIC and RIR
9
• Transfer from RIR Member to APNIC Member, or vice
versa
• Source account to initiate transfer request
• Registry of the recipient account to evaluate transfer
request
• More information on: www.apnic.net/transfer

10. How many transfers
are we doing?
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total
BD
10

11. Issue Date:
Revision:
How to do it?
IPv4 transfer between APNIC members

12. MyAPNIC
(source account)
12

13. MyAPNIC
(source account)
13

14. MyAPNIC
(recipient account)
14

15. Issue Date:
Revision:
Tips
• IPv4 pre-approval
• IPv4 transfer listing service
• Mailing list

16. IPv4 Transfer Pre-approval
16
• It allows you to demonstrate your need for the IPv4 block
in advance
• Allows the transfer process to be completed faster as the
evaluation is done beforehand
• Complete the “Transfer pre-approval” form via MyAPNIC
• For more information, please visit:
– http://www.apnic.net/pre-approval

17. Transfer Pre-approval form in MyAPNIC
(recipient account)
17

18. IPv4 Transfer listing service
18
• List Members who have received pre-approval from
APNIC, and have given APNIC permission to list their
needs on a public website
• Allows others with excess IPv4 to contact you
• For more information, please visit:
– http://www.apnic.net/pre-approval-listing

19. IPv4 Transfer listing service
19

20. APNIC Transfers Mailing List
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• Facilitate discussion on topics related to IPv4 transfer
• Share availability of unused IPv4 address
• Discuss your requirement of IPv4 address
• To subscribe to the mailing list, please go to:
– www.apnic.net/mailing-lists

21. Issue Date:
Revision:
Some conditions

22. Why /22’s?
21%
8%
71%
103/8
/22 Partial Available
23%
0%
77%
Non 103/8
/22 Partial Available
22

23. How policies are created
23

24. Getting involved
24
• Interested in policy?
– Want to be involved in the Policy Development Process?
• Single policy document
– To make it easier for users to consult the policy documentation,
APNIC Secretariat has recently merged seven different policy
documents in a single policy manual.
– www.apnic.net/policy/resources

25. Improvement to PDP
25
APNIC Confer tool

26. Live Demo of Confer Tool
26
• bdNOG3 is a successful event?- Strongly agree
• Agree
• Neutral
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree
• To test:
• Browse to confer.apnic.net
• Register email address, password, display name and start voting!

27. Sick of hearing
about IPv4
running out?
Get IPv6
It’s easy!
27

28. You’re Invited!
• APNIC 40: Jakarta, Indonesia from 3 - 10 Sept 2015
28

29. THANK YOU
www.facebook.com/APNIC
www.twitter.com/apnic
www.youtube.com/apnicmultimedia
www.flickr.com/apnic
www.weibo.com/APNICrir