Service Announcement: 04 August 2020

Start Time	Tuesday, 4 August 2020
End Time	Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Duration	N/A – No downtime expected
Services affected	All remaining SSL/TLS websites. Examples include: wq.apnic.net rpki.apnic.net rdap.apnic.net rrdp.apnic.net ftp.apnic.net 6to4.nro.net
Description	On 4 August 2020 all other servers that are typically accessed by application programming interfaces (APIs), scripting, and automation tools will be configured to only allow TLS 1.2, and 1.3 where possible. APNIC will continue to offer unencrypted access without TLS for some services such as whois (on port 43/tcp), and both encrypted and unencrypted access for some other services such as, which is available via FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS; and RDAP which is available by HTTP and HTTPS. No unencrypted connections are being disabled at this time. Read more here.

We apologize for the loss of facilities and any inconvenience caused. Should you require assistance in dealing with any problems arising from this outage, please contact the APNIC Helpdesk.