Report

Thank you to the attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to APRICOT 2025. The preliminary event participation statistics are:

Conference Statistics

Total number of in person attendees	878
Total number of online-only participants	45
Economies represented	53
APNIC Member organizations represented	231

EC Election 2025

Four positions were open for election at APNIC 59. The nominations (in the order they were received) were:

• Kenny Huang
• Roopinder Singh Perhar
• Bertrand Cherrier
• Yoshinobu Matsuzaki
• Anlei Hu
• Rob Thomas

Congratulations to Yoshinobu Matsuzaki, Anlei Hu, Roopinder Singh Perhar, and Kenny Huang on their re-election to the APNIC EC. They will each serve a two-year term of office.

The results are available to view.

Cooperation SIG

The Cooperation SIG is a forum for discussion about broader Internet issues such as public policy and Internet governance with a focus on information sharing, outreach, capacity building, and other activities that will advance APNIC’s vision for a global, open, stable, and secure Internet.

Discussion centred on the need for the technical community can take action in the WSIS+20 process, ensuring that its expertise informs policy discussions at both global and regional levels.

NIR SIG

The NIR SIG shares information relating to the operations, policies, and procedures of National Internet Registries (NIRs) with the aim of promoting close cooperation among the NIRs and with the APNIC Secretariat.

The NIR SIG had the following presentations:

• CNNIC Update (Zhen Yu)
• JPNIC Update (Koki Nakagawa)
• IRINN Update (Abhishek Mishra)
• VNNIC Update (Oanh Nguyen)
• APJII/IDNIC Update (Muhammad Arif Angga)
• TWNIC Update (Tim Wang)

There was also a panel discussion, which explored the past five years of the NIRs and what lies ahead.

Open Policy Meeting (Policy SIG)

The APNIC Open Policy Meeting (OPM) is an open forum to develop policies that relate to the management and use of Internet number resources within the Asia Pacific region. These include policies for resource allocation, recovery and transfer, and for resource registration within whois, reverse DNS, RPKI and related services.

The Open Policy Meeting (OPM) had a presentation about the following:

• What happened with addresses in 2024 (Geoff Huston)

The following policy proposals did not reach consensus and will go back to the mailing list:

• prop-162: WHOIS Privacy
• prop-163: Enhancing WHOIS Transparency and Efficiency Through Referral Server Implementation

Routing Security SIG

The Routing Security SIG provides a platform to discuss operational issues and best practices to secure global Internet routing. It also provides advice, support and technical review of policy proposals concerning routing security to advise the APNIC Community.

The SIG had presentations about the following topics:

• The deployment experience of TWNIC ROA/ROV (Tim Wang)
• RPKI Asia Pacific update (Dave Phelan)
• ASPAs and IETF update (Tom Harrison)
• RPKI Monitor: Modelling & Measuring INR conflicts in RPKI (Xiang Liu)

Upcoming Conferences

APNIC 60
Dan Nang, Viet Nam
4-11 September 2025