Report

Thank you to the attendees, sponsors, and everyone who contributed to APRICOT 2026. The preliminary event participation statistics are:

Conference Statistics

Total number of in person attendees	1,044
Total number of online-only participants	60
Economies represented	54
APNIC Member organizations represented	202

EC Election 2026

Three positions were open for election at APNIC 61. The nominations (in the order they were received) were:

• Sumon Ahmed Sabir
• Karla Stokes
• Kam Sze Yeung
• Vincent “Achie” Atienza

Congratulations to Sumon Ahmed Sabir, Vincent “Achie’ Atienza, and Kam Sze Yeung on their re-election to the APNIC EC. They will each serve a two-year term of office.

The results are available to view.

APNIC By-law Reforms

The following resolutions to amend the APNIC By-laws were passed by APNIC Members:

Resolution 1 - Extending EC member terms from two to three years and introducing term limits of three consecutive terms for EC members.

Resolution 2 - Administrative changes to the by-laws.

The results are available to view.

Cooperation SIG

The Cooperation SIG is a forum for discussion about broader Internet issues such as public policy and Internet governance with a focus on information sharing, outreach, capacity building, and other activities that will advance APNIC’s vision for a global, open, stable, and secure Internet.

Discussion centred on the examining the EBERO model, to better imagine and design a resilience framework for the RIR system that ensures that no matter what the governance challenge, the operational registry remains reachable and reliable.

NIR SIG

The NIR SIG shares information relating to the operations, policies, and procedures of National Internet Registries (NIRs) with the aim of promoting close cooperation among the NIRs and with the APNIC Secretariat.

The NIR SIG had the following presentations:

• APJII/IDNIC Update (Syarif Lumintarjo)
• CNNIC Update (Zhen Yu)
• JPNIC Update (Koki Nakagawa)
• KISA / KRNIC Update (Han Sang Lee)
• NIXI Update (Nittin Prakash)
• TWNIC Update (Tim Wang)
• VNNIC Update (Oanh Nguyen)

Open Policy Meeting (Policy SIG)

The APNIC Open Policy Meeting (OPM) is an open forum to develop policies that relate to the management and use of Internet number resources within the Asia Pacific region. These include policies for resource allocation, recovery and transfer, and for resource registration within whois, reverse DNS, RPKI and related services.

The Open Policy Meeting (OPM) had a presentation about the following:

• Resource Change Logs (Tom Harrison)

The following policy proposal did not reach consensus and will go back to the mailing list:

• prop-168: Increase to maximum IPv4 delegations

The following policy proposal was not put to consensus and may go back to the mailing list:

• prop-164: Allocations of IPv6 Resources longer than a /32 with a nibble boundary alignment

Routing Security SIG

The Routing Security SIG provides a platform to discuss operational issues and best practices to secure global Internet routing. It also provides advice, support and technical review of policy proposals concerning routing security to advise the APNIC Community.

The SIG had presentations about the following topics:

• RPKI in Indonesia (Syarif Lumintarjo)
• ASPA in the RPKI Dashboard (Tim Bruijnzeels)
• RPKI APAC Update (Shane Hermoso)
• IETF Sidrops Update (Tom Harrison)
• RPKI vs Social Engineering Attack (Sanjaya and Carlos Martinez)
• MESec: Minimal-Exposure AS-Path Verification against BGP Post-ROV Attacks (Jiangou Zhan)

Upcoming Conferences

APNIC 62
Mumbai, India
3-10 September 2026