------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Document identity Title: Proposal for Distributed APNIC Operations Short title: project-distributed-ops Document ref: APNIC-007 Version: 001 Date of original publication: 8 December 1993 Date of this version: 8 December 1993 Review scheduled: n/a Obsoletes: n/a Status: Historical Comments: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC-007.0 T. Park Project Proposal 8 December 1993 Proposal for Distributed APNIC Operations Issued: December 8, 1993 Expires: Not Applicable 1. Overview KRNIC proposes to operate APNIC as a collaborative project between national NIC's in Asia Pacific region. The collaboration will be similar to the Internic operations, categorizing operations into the following - Registration Services (RS) (rs.apnic.net) - Directory and Database Services (DS) (ds.apnic.net) - Information Services (IS) (is.apnic.net) This is a first step of extending current NIC hierarchy of Global NIC - Regional NIC - National NIC into three hierarchies Global RS - Regional RS - National RS Global DS - Regional DS - National DS Global IS - Regional IS - National IS The most urgent service should be RS, and APNIC pilot project has been focusing on this issue. DS can be supported using raw data copy of RS. IS can be supported more independently from other services. By operating APNIC by multiple national NICs, the funding overhead of each NIC's can be distributed and it can promote collaboration in this region. Korea Network Information Center is willing to support one of APNIC services for 2 years (1994-1995) or more. Full funding support will be done by Korean government as a research project. 2. APNIC Support by KRNIC Funding support will be done by National Computerization Agency (NCA) of Korea for two years, including full-time and half time staffs, equipments, active meeting participation, and the stable connection to the Internet. APNIC staff full-time Park [Page 1] APNIC-007.0 December 1993 APNIC staff(s) part-time secretary half-time APNIC staffs will actively participate to relevant meetings such as IETF, APCCIRN, and INET conference. 3. Description on APNIC Services 3.1 Primary Services - Registration Services This is the most important service of APNIC and APNIC will guarantee the quality of service it provides including response time, stability of connection to APNIC machines, and fairness and openness of the registry function. - Directory and Database Services Directory and network management database will be maintained. Included are person of contact, IP networks, DNS domains and routing information. WHOIS and X.500 will be deployed for this purpose. - Information Services (APNIC document store) APNIC will generate and collect network information especially on Asia-Pacific region. The information will be provided by the APNIC server machine using various mechanisms such as anonymous ftp, gopher and WWW. 3.2 Optional Services - routing registry (route server) - DNS coordination - assistance for national NIC set up (e.g. sabatical programs) - quarterly report 4. Remarks - APNIC members and APNIC operation team APNIC operation team will have the responsiblity to APNIC members (NIC-representatives from APCCIRN countries) via appropriate means such as reporting at meetings, periodic newsletter, mailing lists and so on. Critical decisions will be done by the concensus of APNIC members. - APNIC beyond September 1996 Before September 1996, decision on the next phase operational plan of APNIC will be made, including stable funding support. The default option will be the continuation of full funding support Park [Page 2] APNIC-007.0 December 1993 by national NIC's providing each services. 5. Author's Address Taeha Park Korea Network Information Center Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science Taejon, 305-701, Republic of Korea Tel: +82-42-869-3554 Fax: +82-42-869-3510 Email: taeha@nic.nm.kr Park [Page 3]