• ●APNIC 62 runs from 4 to 10 September 2026 in Mumbai, with technical workshops, policy meetings and community sessions; over 600 participants are expected.
• ●APNIC — Asia Pacific Network Information Centre — is the region's not-for-profit internet number registry, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Brisbane, Australia; it manages IP addresses and network identifiers across 56 economies. Director General: Jia Rong Low.
• ●APNIC is one of five Regional Internet Registries; the others are ARIN (North America), RIPE NCC (Europe, Central Asia and West Asia), LACNIC (Latin America and the Caribbean) and AFRINIC (Africa).
• ●NIXI — National Internet Exchange of India — is a not-for-profit company registered on 19 June 2003 under Section 8 of the Companies Act, working under MeitY; it runs internet exchange points, the .IN Registry and IRINN, the registry through which Indian networks obtain IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. CEO: Devesh Tyagi.
• ●Co-host ISPAI, the Internet Service Providers Association of India, is headed by Rajesh Chharia; MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan and Maharashtra Chief Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal are among the guests.
• ●NIXI and APNIC sign an MoU on 8 September covering IPv6 deployment and routing security.
• ●IPv6 is the 128-bit internet addressing scheme that succeeds the exhausted 32-bit IPv4; APNIC's Director General cited India's IPv6 adoption as a regional example.
• ●ICANN — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — is the global non-profit that coordinates the domain name system and the IANA number functions from which the five RIRs, APNIC included, receive address blocks for onward allocation.

Which body is the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region?