Sub-regional Resource Update: East Asia
An update on trends in resource delegation in APNIC’s East Asia sub-region.
Tag: ASNs
Excessive BGP AS-PATH prepending is a self-inflicted vulnerability
Guest Post: Prepending-to-all is a self-inflicted and needless risk that serves little purpose.
Sub-regional Resource Update: South Asia
An update on trends in resource delegation in South Asia.
Can AS-PATH prepending compromise the security of Internet routing?
Guest Post: AS-PATH prepending may be handy for performing traffic engineering but in can also increase the risk of prefix interception attacks.
Event Wrap: PCTA Convention 2019
APNIC’s Anna Mulingbayan joined over 1,000 participants at the PCTA Convention 2019 in Manila, Philippines, from 2 to 4 April 2019.
Five policy proposals up for community discussion at APNIC 47
There are five proposals related to IPv6, ASN, IPv4 and the Policy Development Process to be discussed at the APNIC 47 Open Policy Meeting.
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.
2018 National Internet Segments’ Reliability report
Guest Post: Report evaluates the effect of a possible failure of a given AS on other ASes and economies.
New ASN management features
APNIC will soon implement an important change to the aut-num object in the APNIC Whois Database.
Why it’s important for cable broadband providers to get an ASN
Having an ASN enables cable broadband providers to have multiple upstream connections to ensure a diverse path to the Internet.