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Type:	Non-Profit
Industry:	Registry
Founded:	1992
Headquarters:	6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia
Country:	>200[[Category:>200]]
Website:	Apnic.net
Key People
Paul Wilson, Director General German Valdez, Communications Director Richard Brown, Business Director Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist Pablo Hinojosa, Senior Public Affairs Advisor Byron Ellacott, Technical Director

APNIC is the acronym for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, which is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region.

Overview

APNIC was founded in January, 1993, and its main headquarters are located in Brisbane, Australia. The main focus of APNIC is the registration and allocation of the IP Address space throughout the Asia Pacific region. APNIC is an open, non-for-profit, membership-based organization.^[1] APNIC covers 56 economies all around Oceania and Asia which are further classified in four regions: South, Southeast, Oceania and Central-east.

There are two open meetings per year, which are organized for discussing policies and developing new strategies. APNIC also organizes courses in order to educate users to correctly manage, administer and configure the Internet services.

APNIC Members

Membership is available to "any person,unincorporated association, firm, corporation Governmental Organisation, or Non-Governmental Organisation, engaged in the use of or business of providing open system protocol network services". ^[2]

APNIC works in the interest of is members and stakeholders within the Internet community. Currently, the organization has more than 2,000 members spread throughout the Asia Pacific region.^[3]

Members are graded into tiers depending on their IP Address, which are further delineated with regards to economy and size. All members are allowed to vote in the elections for the Executive Council. Most APNIC members consist of National Internet Registries, Network Information Centres and Internet Service Providers.^[4]

APNIC Functions

The main functions of the Asia Pacific Information Centre are:

The allocation of IPv6, and formerly the allocation of IPv4 address space, as well as ASN throughout the Asia Pacific region;
The maintenance of a public Whois Database for the region;
Representation to other bodies of the Internet community throughout the Asia Pacific region;
Reverse DNS lookup delegations

APNIC Structure

According to APNIC Document Identity, APNIC structure consists of:

APNIC members
The Executive Council
The Secretariat
Possible Sub-committees ^[5]

References

[1] APNIC Definition

[2] APNIC Conditions of Membership

[3] APNIC Members

[4] APNIC members

[5] APNIC Structure

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 ==APNIC Functions==
-The main functions of the Asia Pacific Information Centre are as follows:
+The main functions of the Asia Pacific Information Centre are:
-* The allocation of IPv6 and IPv4 address space as well as ASN (Autonomous System Numbers) throughout the region of Asia Pacific;
+* The allocation of [[IPv6]], and formerly the allocation of [[IPv4]] address space, as well as [[ASN]] throughout the Asia Pacific region;
-* The maintenance of public Whois Database for the region of Asia Pacific;
+* The maintenance of a public Whois Database for the region;
-* The representation of interests for the Internet community throughout the Asia Pacific region;
+* Representation to other bodies of the Internet community throughout the Asia Pacific region;
 * Reverse DNS lookup delegations
-* The Executive Council of APNIC has the following functions: act on behalf of APNIC members, to develop Internet policies which respond to the changes related to the Internet environment, ensure efficient coordination for APNIC work, etc.
 ==APNIC Structure==