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The 62nd APNIC Conference is being held in Mumbai from 4 to 10 September 2026, hosted by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) with the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) as co-host and support from the Government of Maharashtra.
More than 600 network operators, policymakers and technologists are attending, with sessions on AI-driven services, network automation, cybersecurity, routing security and Internet governance.
NIXI and APNIC are signing a Memorandum of Understanding on the sidelines to accelerate IPv6 deployment and strengthen routing security in India.
APNIC is one of the five Regional Internet Registries and allocates IP address space and Autonomous System numbers across the Asia Pacific.
Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific; allocates and registers IPv4/IPv6 address blocks and Autonomous System numbers, and runs the region's bottom-up policy development process
India's national Internet exchange; peers domestic traffic so Indian data stays within India, and runs the .IN country-code domain registry
Industry association of Indian Internet service providers; co-host of APNIC 62
IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, capping the Internet at about 4.3 billion of them. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, an effectively unlimited pool, and is the only long-term route to connecting billions of mobile and IoT devices.
Simple Analogy: IPv4 is a city that ran out of postal addresses; IPv6 redraws the numbering plan.
The five RIRs allocate number resources; ICANN, through the IANA functions, sits above them and also coordinates the domain name system. APNIC's Director General Jia Rong Low came from ICANN's Asia Pacific office.
Routing security work centres on protecting the Border Gateway Protocol against route hijacks and leaks - a recurring cyber-security theme in GS Paper 3.
NIXI's exchange points keep domestic traffic inside India, the network-layer counterpart to the data-storage localisation debate under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
GS Paper 3 > Science and Technology > Awareness in the field of IT and computers; Cyber security
General Awareness > Current Affairs and Computer Fundamentals
One of five bodies that allocate IP address blocks and Autonomous System numbers within a defined world region.
Physical infrastructure where networks interconnect to exchange traffic locally instead of routing it abroad.
Measures such as RPKI that prevent networks from announcing IP prefixes they do not own.