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• APNIC Routing Registry services
• Benefits of Using the APNIC Routing Registry
• APNIC Routing Registry and the APNIC Whois Database
• More information

APNIC Routing Registry services

The following services are available for users of the APNIC Routing Registry.

Routing queries at whois.apnic.net via

• Regular whois clients
• Special purpose programs such as IRRToolSet
• APNIC Whois Database web interface

Routing registration and maintenance

For information on how to register routing information in the APNIC Routing Registry, see:

• Updating information in the APNIC Whois Database
• Attributes of APNIC Whois Database objects

Routing Registry help

For help registering information in the APNIC Routing Registry contact the APNIC Member Services Helpdesk.

Mirroring of other routing registries

The APNIC Routing Registry will mirror Routing Registries within the Asia Pacific region and around the world. For the complete list of mirrored registries, query the APNIC Whois Database using the search string "-q sources".

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Benefits of using the APNIC Routing Registry

• Easier maintenance

  Use one set of maintainer and person objects to manage both Internet resources and routing information.

• Integrated resource and routing management

  Before route objects can be registered in the APNIC Routing Registry, APNIC ensures that the address range and AS number are within APNIC resource ranges. In addition, the mnt-by, mnt-lower, and mnt-routes authentication attributes in aut-num and inetnum objects ensure that the registered resource holder has control over routing objects that specify their resources.

• Reduced costs

  The APNIC Routing Registry service is free to APNIC members.

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APNIC Routing Registry and the APNIC Whois Database

The APNIC Routing Registry is part of the APNIC Whois Database. The APNIC Routing Registry will also be linked to the distributed Internet Routing Registry (IRR).

Routing objects and Internet resource objects

Objects representing resources related to the allocation and assignment of resources by APNIC are used to authenticate routing information in the APNIC Routing Registry. Attributes in IPv4 address (inetnum) and AS number (aut-num) objects in upgraded APNIC Whois Database can be used to control the creation and maintenance of related routing objects. These attributes are:

To create routing objects associated with Internet resource objects, first add the appropriate authorisation attributes in the inetnum and aut-num objects. When querying an IP address or range, any associated route object will be returned with the inetnum object.

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More information

• Benefits of using a Routing Registry
• Updating information in the APNIC Whois Database
• RFC 2622 - Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
• RFC 2650 - Using RPSL in Practice

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