Three of the best: Cybersecurity
Stay safe these holidays with the three top posts on security topics from 2018.
Three of the best: Guest Posts
Thanks to the 100+ guest bloggers who contributed stories to the APNIC Blog in 2018. Here’s three of the best!
Policy Series: Community-led policy process stands the test of time
Anne Lord helps answer a question that is often asked about APNIC Policy: how was the current policy process created in the first place?
Threat intelligence sharing, awareness keys to cybersafety in Malaysia
Since 1997, MyCERT has played a leading role as the national technical reference centre in responding to and advising on cybersecurity incidents in Malaysia.
Policy Series: Seamless transition down to effective collaboration
With 2-byte ASN exhaustion rapidly approaching, Geoff Huston helped develop a policy and plan that successfully transitioned the Internet to 4-byte ASNs.
Policy Series: A smarter minimum allocation
Rajesh Chharia’s 2008 policy proposal to lower the minimum IPv4 allocation to a /22 helped startup ISPs across the region begin their Internet journey.
Policy Series: Making it easier to get IPv6
Akinori Maemura was one of a group of policy trailblazers from the APNIC region that helped create the first global IPv6 policy.
Policy Series: Ensuring newcomers can connect to a dual-stack Internet
Philip Smith, Jonny Martin and Randy Bush’s policy to ration the final /8 of IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific provided a vital soft landing in the transition to IPv6.
Policy Series: Community discussion shapes IPv4 exhaustion global policy
Izumi Okutani tells the story behind the global policy that would change how the remaining IPv4 addresses were distributed by IANA to the RIRs.
New IX on the block launches in Malaysia
Malaysia’s second Internet Exchange (IX) launches in the border state of Johor.