[apnic-announce] Summary of APNIC's current status
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APNIC Status Report - transition
prepared by Anne Lord
Status of relocation
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o Office refurbishment
- Furniture ordered
- Office layout design complete
- Cabling for phones, power and network started
o Initial Connectivity installed
- 256k "Fastway" service connecting to Telstra
- ISDN lines for staff dialup
- ISDN lines for phones
o Equipment
- SCO clustering software donation,
with Compaq hardware donation hoped for..
- Cisco 7206 loan, 64Mb Ram, 20Mb Flash with
11.1CC software, netflow capable for collector
statistics and traffic shaping
- 2 x Cisco 2924XL - 24 port 10/100baseT switches,
on loan and on order
- phone system Nortel GDK100 or Samsung DCS?
o Computer Room
- 2 racks on order, 1 Compaq rack ordered
- 1 x UPS (APC) per rack
Staff
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o DG recruitment
- KPMG handling executive search
- Posted to membership and other RIR's
- Closing date 25th May -- see http://www.apnic.net/jobs/dg.html
o New staff hired
- 1 hostmaster, Fabrina Hossain (starts June 1st)
- 1 sysadm/developer, Paul Gampe (started)
- 1 business assistant, Connie Chan (starts June 1st)
Registration Services
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o Currently backlogged queue - 1 hostmaster full-time (Yoshiko)
o Final stages of implementation of new ticketing system
o Implementing transition to new charging scheme based on a
per address fee for confederation members only
o Transition of APNIC in-addr.arpa from Telstra to APNIC
servers expected shortly
Priorities
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o Finding a new DG
o Completing relocation (mid to end of June with basic operation June 1st)
o Consolidating PC/UNIX platforms
o Stabilising core services
o Software development
o Documentation
o Training for members similar to RIPE Local IR courses
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