Author：David Shi-Wei Chen
Purposes
Asia Pacific
Network Information (APNIC) is allocated in
Preparation before Starting
Contact
Person:
APNIC Resources Services Manager
John Tran
Email: <Son@apnic.net>
Phone: +61 7 3858 3100 Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 APNIC Human Resource Manager Helen Welsh Email: <helen@apnic.net>Phone: +61 7 3858 3100
Fax : +61 7 3858 3199
Invitation
letter for Australia Visa
Please ask for Helen
who is Human Resource Manager in APNIC to provid an invitation letter to get
business VISA for
Accommodation
Please ask for Helen
help to make reservation.
COSMO On
Phone: 07 38585999
Fax: 07 38585988
Or ask for GREAT STAR TRAVEL SERVICE to book accommodation.
2F, No. 57,
Email: hyhsiung@greatstar.com.tw
Phone: (02)2772-7255
Fax: (02)2777-1758
Travel
Agent
GREAT STAR TRAVEL SERVICE.
2F, No. 57,
Email: hyhsiung@greatstar.com.tw
Phone: (02)2772-7255
Fax: (02)2777-1758
Weather
Condition
On
OCT. in
Network
Condition
In APNIC, need to apply a Certificated Authority for retrieving APNIC intranet
server usage, then installed in desktop PC in order to access APNIC RT system
and allocation manage system to insure that I could run any application tool or
system as Hostmaster can do.
There is a
more difficult in APNIC that is to send mail using TWNIC VPN from APNIC and via.
TWNIC VPN to access TWNIC intranet server as well, but to receive email is no
problem.
Please check
Internet service in hotel or not. It’s difficult to access Internet according to most of
hotels in
Host Master Training
Who:
In spite of there is a department for training in APNIC, the HM manager, Son is in charge of this project. The HMs, George Kuo and Kuangliang Pan, they prepared all the materials and topics and training schedule for me.
What:
They have a list of areas that they will train the HM. The HM team follows the list to give me training on schedule. The major topics of training list as below.
1. Tools
introductions including RT management, PINE and allocation management system.
2. NIR Operational policies and
procedures – Discussion with HM manager what I would like to know.
So I proposed some topics listing in following.
A. All resource evaluation steps and processes in APNIC.
B. Direct IP blocks from APNIC procedure.
C. IRR processes procedure.
D. WHOIS V3 server
installation.
E. Assignment data mirror from TWNIC procedure.
F. Compare with APNIC RT system and TWNIC RMS system difference.
G. Reverse DNS ftp procedure for direct IP from APNIC.
3. Reading document, reference files, and internal/external HM website.
4. Operation with APNIC RT website, HM’s manual, IP resource map files and member files.
5. AS policy review and checklist explanation with sample requests study.
6. Second Opinion Request review and checklist explanation with sample requests study.
7. Evaluate AS requests and discussion of the evaluation.
8. Evaluate second-opinion requests and discussion of the evaluation.
9. Multihoming request evaluation, reading policy and evaluation procedures.
10. Evaluate multihoming request and discussion of the evaluation.
11. Running RT system, Allocation management system and WHOIS V3 system.
12. Query systems to compare the updated and evaluated data difference.
13. Initial allocation criteria.
14. Evaluate ISP initial request and discussion of the evaluation.
15. Evaluate real case and discussion of the evaluation.
16. Evaluate
IPv6 case and discuss of evaluation
A.
Asia-stats
– Used to generate ipv4 & ipv6 statistics per country and per year.
B.
Allocate
<file> - Used to register an inetnum object allocation/assignment. <file> should contain the complete inetnum object.
C.
Chk2nd
<member-account name> – Used to check all approved second opinion request
against the database.
D.
Chkcritical
– Used to count all critical infrastructure assignments for statistics purpose.
E.
Chkix
– Used to count all IX assignments for statistic purpose.
F.
Chkmha
– Used to count all small multihoming assignments made.
G.
Chkreverse
<0.0.0.0 – 0.0.0.0> - Query whois database for dimain objects given the
ip address range.
H.
Reverse24
<file> - Used to create reverse delegation in /24s from a given
<file>. It has the option to generate dummy name servers. <file> should contain the inetnum object.
I.
Reverse16
<file> - Used to create reverse delegation in /16s from a given
<file>. It has the option to generate dummy name servers. <file> should contain the inetnum object.
J.
Chktickets
<YYYYMMDD> - Used to check the status of all assigned tickets for a given
date.
K.
Register
<file> - Used to register any object in the database without remarks.
<file> should contain a valid database object.
Very handy for registering maintainer object, aut-num, route etc. There is no
need to included changed field and password on the <file>.
L.
Delete
<file> - Used to remove the object(s) contained in a <file> from
whois database. There is no need to add delete field and password in the
<file>.
M.
Undelete
<file> - Used to put back deleted object contained in a <file>.
N.
Update
<file> - Used when updating an object. <file>
should contain the updated object. Change field will be added with current
date.
O.
Kill
<file> - Used to kill spam/junk ticket s contained in <file>.
P.
Resolve
<file> - Used to resolve ticket(s) contained in a <file>.
Q.
Assign
<file> - Used to assign ticket(s) contained in a <file>.
R.
Mytickets
– This will display all your open HM & Helpdesk Tickets.
S.
Open-tickets
– Used to count alll open tickets per HM from HM & helpdesk queue.
How:
All trainers (only HM, not APNIC training team) meet to discuss prepare material and schedule beforehand and each of the trainers would prepare their own material or study case. Usually the person who trains on the particular area is the one that has the similar project or the coordinator on that area.
HM receive theory training for a few days on a particular, then hands on work with assistance from the trainer, then receive more training and expand on the area of hands on work.
notes:
All trainers provide feedback to the team leader and the manager to report on the progress, and give "performance review" in the first two weeks. The probation period is only one month, so they give feedback to the HM as early as possible but not leave it to the last minute.
Meetings & Activities
Staff Meeting:
- Direct Paul is to chair the meeting.
- All departments take minutes regarding briefly inform and statistics.
- Human Resource department responsible to make the room booking and ensure room and presentation file set up properly.
Here are some
topics while I attended APNIC staff meeting. The staff of HM department presented an IPv4/IPv6 and ASN Internet
resource statistics and resource analysis. The staff of billing department
presented a membership statistics diagram. The staff of technical department
staff briefly presented on service server and network status statistics.
The staff of web development team demonstrated
APRICOT 2004 registry Web site. APNIC developed new registry system for APRICOT
2004 instead of REGWEB system. Director Paul introduced NRO (National Resource
Organisation) progressing status and meeting summary. Please refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/nro-faq.html
for more details and FAQ.
HM
Meeting:
- All HMs take turn to chair the meeting.
-Chair responsible to make the room booking and ensure room set up properly.
-ALL HMs take turn to take minutes.
-Once a week.
The following is regarding to HM
meeting topics which I attended
1. The HMs discussed about member file
clean-up proposal presented by Sunny.
2. Anna presented her reverse DNS delegation
interface for DMA.
3. The HMs discussed about ChinaNet Spam issue and how to handle LIR not to register customer assignment in WHOIS DB but request next IP address space.
4. Save reported on policy/research activities.
5. George reported historical resource transfer status and schedule.
6. Finally HMs discussed on some current requests asking for other staffs opinions.
HM
brainstorming retreat:
- All HMs take turn to chair session in the meeting.
- Chair responsible to hold one topic properly.
- ALL HMs take turn to prepare minutes.
- Team leader control the schedule and the retreat rhythm.
- IP resource policy manager is to be a consultant and instructor to summary.
The
HM department went to
the suburbs of
1. Why HM should be involved in training- Dealing with members.- Know and aware with problem areas.- Better knowledge of operational procedures.- Can help with translation due to language spoken.- Only way to meet with members that don't come to meetings. 2. How can HM assist training department- Make up case studies.- Provide feedback on problem areas where member facing so training can address them.- Regular checking training material for consistency with currentprocedure.
- Have HM consultation during training.- Training department might need to consider review training materialwith HM like Ripe NCC does. That is have feedback session when new or modifying material.
Other suggestions?
- When demo have two laptops so can switch between them. I.e. demo ofusing WHOIS DB when there is wireless available.
3. Level of involvement- Need to be at the training to provide help with operational side- If more involvement would be a better trainers, like trainer team. Others- HM can improve much faster if they receive feedback on their role each training.- Training team need to make a real report not editing the answers thattrainers have provided during training like now. This will help everyone including trainers.
4. Evaluation toolsA. AS- Should have our own tool.- As checking tool for peering and usage.- Tool to compare db objects and our internal records. B. IPv6- Tool to find out whether blocks is contiguous or not. C. IPv4- Calculate 80% usage.- Need utilization graph?- All assignments made above AW- Classful assignment list out.- Assignment made to same organization within short period of time, i.e. 6 months- Choice of auditing any particular range or period of time.5. Consistency in HM department- Minimize iteration in evaluation.- Try to use stt when requesting for information.- If the information is need in stt, this should be asking in the form instead.- Put AW & second opinion process confirmation in the form?- improve information request in the form.- Review of AW consistently.- Build into induction training for new staff to check forinconsistency.
- Review what information we should check for each service.- Try to be more lenient when evaluating request (Both RIPE and ARIN seem to be more lenient than APNIC)- Need to come with an exercise for completing a good request.- Should only ask for paper documents like invoices, purchase orders, contract agreement as last resources. 6. HM involvement in meeting- Need other department assistance in area like helpdesk as HM has too many responsibilities- Some suggest maybe we should have an HM open forum so all members can ask questions to hms.- Maybe reduce Chair assistance role for hm as they need to follow SIGdiscussion and also have too many responsibilities already.
7. Helpdesk- Most queries received from last couple meetings are general as suchthis can be combined with registration desk to cut down number of staff require.
With
billing department meeting
APNIC billing department manager, Irene
Chan gave me an instruction which focus on APNIC billing processes and
membership processes step. We discussed on how to reduce the manual checking
steps instead of an automatic system. I shared TWNIC remaindering customer
renewal letter outsourcing experience with her. The meeting gave me and Irene a
great opportunity to know each other billing system’s advantage.
With
technical department meeting
I proposed some technical questions
about WHOIS V3 searching for APNIC technical department support. The technical
department staff, Terry guided me step by step to install WHOIS V3 server and
MYSQL server in the last two days.
1. RIPE
WHOIS V3 installation and configuration.
2. MYSQL
database installation.
3. Initial
loading data procedure into WHOIS V3.
4. Create
maintainer steps.
5. Create
inetnum by maintainer steps.
6. Change
source from SAMPLE to TWNIC.
7. AS num
object creation.
8. Change
RIPE status to APNIC status (allocated portable, assigned portable…)
9.
Assignment data mirror from TWNIC procedure and connection issue.
With
training department meeting
Champika
gave me an instruction on IRR objects structure and operation. I also discussed with MIWA and George
for 2003 APNIC training in
(1)
APNIC
training objective and introduction to APNIC.
(2)
APNIC
community and policy.
(3)
Whois
Database introduction.
(4)
Internet
registry procedure - Addressing plan
(5)
Sub-allocation
and assignment.
(6)
Reverse
DNS delegation and registry procedure.
(7)
Second
Opinion Request – Assignment Window, Request form and Evaluation.
(8)
ASN
procedure and policy.
(9)
IRR
introduction
(10)
IPv6
technical overview and policy.
Suggestions
Regarding IP
policy issue, I proposed some topics discussed with Anne Lord as below.
1. IP
sub-allocation issue.
The policy to review sub-allocation is more
like allocate IP space or second opinion? TWNIC verifies member’s request for
sub-allocation following APNIC policy to review applicant’s device equipment,
infrastructure and customer assignment register.
I proposed an example for sub-allocation in
TWNIC. A member of TWNIC had sub-allocated IP space to their customer who is an
ISP in
I suggested that TWNIC
IP COMMITTEE would not restrict too much limitation to promote IP space
utilization.
(2) IPv6 development and
criteria issue.
TWNIC has allocated IPv6 space to several
applicants who are not an ISP or LIR since IPv6 started allocation.
For example, The
NHRI (National Health Reach Institute) is not TWNIC member but can get IPv6
addresses for only $NT5, 000 once charge fee.
So I suggested TWNIC IP COMMITTEE would review the charge fee policy of
non-member for IP address or ASN annual maintenance fee. It could be started on
lower rate.