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APNIC Logo The APNIC 55 meeting was held in Manila, Philippines from 20th Feb to 02nd March 2023. The meeting was hosted by PhNOG, The Philippine Network Operators Group (PhNOG) and supported by DOST- Advanced Science and Technology Institute. Every year, APNIC conferences are held twice, the first of each year is held in conjunction with APRICOT and the second one is a standalone conference. The last such meeting held in India was in 2012, APNIC 33 (which was in conjunction with APRICOT 2012).  APNIC 55 meeting was unique in multiple senses –  i. Firstly, because of the possibility of potential hijack [1] [2][3] of the APNIC Executive Council by Cloud Innovation Ltd. / Larus foundation / NRS, the same organizations which have dragged AFRINIC (RIR for African Continent) into the Mauritius supreme court and at one point nearly halted the AFRINIC operations by getting its bank accounts frozen (over 25 lawsuits have been filed against AFRINIC by Cloud Innovation Ltd....

"A thank you note is the simplest form of showing gratitude". I am both humbled and honored that you have placed your confidence and support in me by electing me for the NRO NC Member and NIR SIG Co-Chair position. I sincerely thank you for casting your valuable vote in my favor and making me win the election seeing all the required capabilities as a leader in me. I feel and believe that your support will boost my confidence to discharge my duties and responsibilities in a righteous manner. I want to extend my special and sincere thanks for the immense support, valuable time and opportunity from Sh R.S. Mani (my boss), Dr Seema Khanna, Sh Anil Jain (CEO NIXI), Mr Tarun Dua (my mentor), Mr Vivek from Hapihhost, Sh Shailesh Gupta, Mr Naveen Sharma, Mr Anurag Bhatia, Mr Daryll Swer, Mr Abhishek Mishra, APNIC team and all others who supports me directly or in-directly by encouraging me to use my temperament in the right direction to give out the best result. Thanking yo...

APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region, service 56 economies, including India, Bangladesh, China, Australia, Japan and others. APNIC is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). As of date, the following 7 NIRs (National Internet Registries) are registered with APNIC for serving the local community a b c -- NIR Serving Economy Member under each NIR d APJII (ID) Indonesia 2916 e CNNIC (CN) China  1399 IRINN (IN) India  3368 JPNIC (JP) Japan   474 KISA (KR) Korea Not Available TWNIC (TW) Taiwan   299 VNNIC (VN) Vietnam   624 APNIC Membership is classified into 7 tiers depending on the IP holding by each member. Each membership tier has voting rights. These voting rights play a crucial role in governan...

In this post, i will talk about configuring firefox browser to use DoH and not to fallback to OS native resolver  Step 1 :- Configure DoH like the way it is mentioned here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https . I am using  https://doh.nkn.in/dns-query   (which is the DoH server of https://www.nkn.in and in alpha testing stage) as my DoH server in firefox browser. Step 2 :- Check you configuration by typing  about:networking#dns in the browser address bar. Most probably, you will see something like this --  Here, the DoH Mode option handles how firefox manages your DNS queries.  This document (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver) talks about the options available under 'DoH Mode'. So, if you want to use only DoH and not to fallback to native OS resolver, you can change the value of this parameter to '3'.  Step 3 :- For changing the value of 'DoH Mode' parameter, type  about:config in the browser's ...

An IP rating must begin with 5 for partial dust protection or 6 for complete dust protection. The IP rating is two digits, with the first and second digit defined as follows:  First Digit (intrusion protection) 0. (or X - see section below): No special protection. Not rated (or no rating supplied) for protection against ingress of this type.  1. Protection from a large part of the body such as a hand (but no protection from deliberate access); from solid objects greater than 50mm in diameter.  2. Protection against fingers or other object not greater than 80mm in length and 12mm in diameter (accidental finger contact).  3. Protection from entry by tools, wires etc, with a diameter of 2.5 mm or more.  4. Protection against solid objects larger than 1mm (wires, nails, screws, larger insects and other potentially invasive small objects such as tools/small etc).  5. Partial protection against dust that may harm equipment.  6. Totally dust tight. Full prote...

Availability of 5 GHz WLAN Channels in India under unlicensed band  In India, Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing of Department of Telecom, under Ministry of Communication takes care of licensing of radio frequencies.  In the latest National Frequency allocation plan 2018 (https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/NFAP%202018.pdf), Government of India (GoI), exempted the licensing requirements of the following radio frequency ranges for wireless usage and a gazette notification has also published for this (https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/License%20Exemption%20in%205%20GHz%20G_S_R_1048%28E%29%20dated%2022nd%20October%2C%202018_0.pdf)  -- 1.  5150-5250 2. 5250-5350 3. 5470-5725 4. 5725-5875 References

With the evolution of IoT (Internet of Things), devices that connect wirelessly have increased many folds. From webcams, Smartwatches, fitness bands, firestick, Alexa, Google Home, and many more.., everything is going wireless for connectivity and so does the security threat. The main concern with IoT devices is the unavailability of the full wireless protocol stack (and in the majority of devices, support of 802.1x is not available). So, previously we only have the WPA-PSK option for connecting the IoT devices.  In WPA*-PSK (WPA or WPA2) WLAN, a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) is configured and distributed to all the clients that connect to the WLAN. This leads to PSK leakage, and it can be accessible to unauthorized users (due to the nature of common PSK across all the devices).  Therefore, there was a need to provision unique PSK or Multiple PSK per SSID. Identity-PSKs are unique pre-shared keys created for clients/groups on the same WLAN. Features of iPSK:-   1.Unique PSK for ...

The access points installed at T3, IGI Airport, New Delhi are of Cisco make, Internal access points with internal antennas. This is depicted in the below images – Cisco access points can be installed in two modes – i.                Lightweight installation – In this mode, access points make a secure tunnel with the wireless controller and pass all the user traffic to the controller. Based on configuration, controller take appropriate actions and process the traffic.   Advisable for large/enterprise setup. ii.               Autonomous installation – In this mode, access points play the role of controller also and process the traffic as per policy. Ideal for small setup. I roam around at various corner of the floor after connecting to wireless and I didn’t face any connection ...