{"id":39032,"date":"2026-03-04T07:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-dev.iptp.net\/?p=39032"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:16:18","slug":"apricot-2026-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iptp.us\/pt_PT\/news\/apricot-2026-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Routing in APAC: What We Learned at APRICOT 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recently concluded APRICOT 2026 conference in Jakarta once again confirmed: if you want to understand where operational reality of inter-domain routing in the Asia-Pacific region is heading — come and listen to engineers who keep this infrastructure running in production.<\/p>

Huston and the BGP Reality: Plateau Instead of Growth<\/h2>

Geoff Huston from APNIC, in his traditional talk “BGP in 2025,” presented data that hadn’t seen laid out so clearly: the IPv4 routing table has essentially plateaued at around 1 million prefixes, the IPv4 address market is degrading (prices dropped from $60 per \/32 to $11–20), and IPv6 growth has stagnated. <\/p>

Huston’s quote hit home:
\n“We’re entering a post-Internet world where routing becomes a last-mile local problem”. <\/em><\/p>

This isn’t abstraction — it’s what we’re seeing in our own ASes: the main headache now isn’t in core routing, but in getting traffic to the user through increasingly fragmented infrastructure.<\/p>

Bush and RIPE Atlas: When Theory Becomes Debugging<\/h2>

Randy Bush from IIJ demonstrated practical use of RIPE Atlas for diagnosing routing and forwarding problems. His approach isn’t monitoring for dashboards — it’s a tool for real-time troubleshooting when your AS-path looks correct but packets are going nowhere. <\/p>

For us, this validated our experience: distributed measurements are no longer optional but necessary when you’re dealing with inter-domain routing in the region’s heterogeneous networks. Worth noting that interesting debugging and route lookup tools<\/a> are also available on IPTP Networks website — another practical resource for operators.<\/p>

From ROA to ASPA: Community Moves from “Why” to “How<\/h2>

The routing security session series showed that APAC operators are no longer debating whether RPKI is needed — they’re discussing how to properly implement ASPA (Autonomous System Provider Authorization) to protect against route leaks. <\/p>

The Indonesia numbers are impressive: ROA coverage grew from 66% to 90.5% in three months. We’re also starting ASPA preparations in our ASes, and the talks gave us insight into the pitfalls early adopters have already encountered. <\/p>

One comment from the conference nailed it:
\n“RPKI, ASPA, post-ROV scenarios — the community has moved from ‘why’ to ‘how to do it right'”.<\/em><\/p>

Takeuchi and the Reality of Multi-Homing Routing<\/h2>

Unexpectedly useful was a talk by young engineer Michael Takeuchi, “Routing at Scale: Challenges in Indonesia’s Multi-IXP Ecosystem”. He described operational problems Indonesian operators face: congestion, asymmetric routing, and manual policy management in the absence of common standards and unified monitoring systems when working with multiple IXPs simultaneously. <\/p>

This isn’t abstract theory — these are exactly the same problems we see in our network when connecting to multiple peering points. <\/p>

Key takeaway<\/strong>: multi-IXP routing problems aren’t just technical but organizational. What’s needed isn’t just protocols, but coordination between operators and shared operational practices.<\/p>

Bottom Line<\/h2>

APRICOT demonstrated that APAC operators work under conditions that often differ from European or North American ones: different scales, different infrastructure constraints, different threat models. <\/p>

But that’s precisely why creative engineering solutions are born here and talks emerge that provide not theory but real experience — from veterans like Huston and Bush to young engineers solving problems in their ASes right now. Next APRICOT is definitely going on the calendar.<\/p>

Our Team in APRICOT 2026<\/h2>
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