AP* Retreat Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
22nd January 2006
Venue: Room 5B-3,
5th Floor, Akihabara Convention Hall
Co-chairs: Dr. Zita Wenzel, APRUNet/USC & Mr. Atsushi
ENDO, JPRS
Present: Mr. Atsushi ENDO, JPRS
Mr. Che-Hoo CHENG, DotAsia Organization/Flag Telecom
Mr. Hiro Hotta, JPRS
Mr. Jack Y S Lin, JPCERT/CC
Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, intERLab/AIT
Ms. Nurani Nimpuno, APNIC
Mr. Ole Jacobsen, Cisco
Systems
Prof. Okhwa Lee,
APNG
Ms. Pensri A.,
AIT/AP* Retreat Secretariat
Prof. Shigeki
Goto, APAN/Waseda University
Ms.
Shoko Mikawa, AIII/Soi-Asia
Mr. Takaaki
Higuchi, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Prof. Toru
Takahashi, IAjapan, RIIS
Ms. Wit Hmone Tin Latt, AIT/AP* Retreat Secretariat
Ms. Yumi Ohashi, JPRS/APTLD
Dr. Zita Wenzel,
APRUNet/USC
Apologies : Mr. Hideo
Ishii, AsiaNetcom
Mr. Izumi Aizu, Institute for HyperNetwork Society
ACTION ITEMS:
- AP* organizations are requested to prepare an open-ended
report NOT a close-ended one in order to find a way to collaborate among AP
orgs. in terms of resource persons or physical resources.
- Maintaining the collective information of AP*
organizations on the AP* website, it would be very helpful for outsiders as
well as for ourselves.
- Funding support to AP* Retreat Secretariat and maintenance
of AP* website (e.g., Corporate Sponsorship) and providing payment facilities
by intERLab/AIT prior to the meeting.
- Invitations to new organizations.
Meeting commenced at 9:00 AM.
Agenda Bashing
The meeting started with greetings from the Co-Chairs Dr.
Zita Wenzel and Mr. Atsushi ENDO welcoming all the participants to Tokyo.
1. Roll Call
The chair then asked all the attendees to introduce
themselves. It was followed by a review of the day’s agenda by the Co-Chair,
Dr. Zita.
2. AP* Organization and Meeting Reports
2.1. APAN by Prof. Shigeki Goto
The presenter, Prof. Goto, mentioned that there was not much
to update since after AP* Retreat in Taipei. The structure of the APAN governance was briefly
explained. With a diagram showing the network topology of TransPAC2, it was
explained that TransPAC2 was a revised version of TransPAC1 saying the meaning
of TransPAC, Trans Pacific. GLORIAD, another of those projects connects Russia, China, and Korea with the United State s. While speaking about
PacificWave/TransLight pacific connection, the speaker said that there was a
connection between Australia
to Singapore and for a
direct connection from Australia to Japan. TEIN2 is a European activity and a new project
which covers some of the Asia Pacific regions. The speaker then gave a national
update speaking briefly about JP-WIDE: IEEAF links, HDTV over IPv6 in Korea, KR-KREAONet’s links for GLORIAD, KREONet2: Hybrid
Backbone Networks, CN-CERNET peerings, CN-CSNet, SG-Snare GIX and AU-AARNET.
APAN has a 10-year history now and two meetings a year.
Before wrapping up the presentation, Prof. Goto gave brief details of the TIEN2
Kick-Off workshop that was to be held successfully in September last year by
Prof. Kanchana at intERLab, Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand.
Questions and Discussions:
-Co-chair Dr. Zita, who is with PacificWave/TransLight added that
the connections are primarily West Coast U.S. (Seattle and Los Angeles) to
Hawaii
and then to Australia.
2.2. APCERT by Mr. Jack Y S Lin
APCERT (Asia Pacific Computer Emergency and Response Team)
is a coalition of CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams) and CERTs
(Computer Emergency Response Teams) across the Asia Pacific region. It was
officially founded in February 2003. Starting from 15 teams from 12 economies,
it now consists of 17 teams from 13 economies and 2 new members: BruCERT (Brunei) and GCSIRT (Philippines) who joined in 2005. APCERT & CNCERT 2006
conference will be held from 28-31 March 2006 in Beijing, P.R. China. In 2005, many important activities were took
place. One of them was 32nd APECTEL Working Group Meeting, held from
5-9 September 2005 in Seoul, Korea inclusive of APEC – OECD joint workshop;
APCERT got guest status and was officially recognized as security experts group
in AP and gained a position to give recommendation/security trend to the
government layers.
The presenter briefed the participants about APCERT Drill –
CJK (China, Japan and Korea) Incident Handling Drills. This drill was reported
by media press and titled “APCERT Drill Closes Worldwide Botnet”. The second
drill was organized by APCERT member CSIRTs in China, Japan and South Korea and was expanded to include other APCERT teams such as National
CSIRTs of Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Chinese
Taipei and Australia.
The presentation was wrapped up of a MoU was signed between
APCERT and TF-CSIRT (TERENA’s Task Force of Computer Security Incident Response
Teams), which is the European counterpart of APCERT.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.3. APEET by Mr. Hiro Hotta
The presenter, Hiro Hotta, started with the organization of
APEET in which six members are included.
oChairs
§J.
Seng (Chair, SG)
§H.
Chen (Vice Chair, CN)
§C.
Ching (Vice Chair, TW)
It is stated that J. Seng and C. Ching will be leaving from
APEET soon and replacements will be made for vacant posts.
oFull Members
§SGNIC
§CNNIC
§JPRS
§NIDA
(KRNIC)
§TWNIC
§InternetNZ
The annual meeting was held on 23 Aug 2005 where the charter
update and chair election took place. The usual meetings were held with IRC,
but at this point of time, it was a slow move.
The ENUM/SIP live trial was launched during APRICOT 2005 in Kyoto and APAN 2005 in Taipei. An Internet-draft writing experiences are under
development. In the future, more live trials will be launched with new aspects
which are still under investigation. As there are more and more expended activities,
more country codes have appeared in E164.ARPA and more usages are under
development in each country/region and on top of that, more ways of
collaboration are also developing.
Conferences/ Presentations available are as follows:
- APRICOT 2005
- BoF
- Internet Telephony Session
- IETF62
- VON Spring 2005
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.4. APNetabuse/APCAUCE by Mr. Takaaki Higuchi
The presenter, Takaaki Higuchi, started the presentation saying APCAUCE stands
for Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email which was
founded in 2003 at the AP* Retreat in Taipei under the umbrella of the CAUCE
organization for Asia Pacific and advocates responsible email practices and
anti-spam regulation.
APCAUCE Structure
- Chair: James Lick
- Deputy Chair: Josh Rowe
- Coordinator: Suresh Ramasubramanian
- Secretariat: Jordan Carter (Sponsored by Internet NZ)
- Representatives for each AP economy from local CAUCE
chapter or anti-spam org
Speaking about APCAUCE activities, annual meeting and
conference session is held with APRICOT in Kyoto, occasional participation in other conferences such as APAN,
SANOG and APNIC and coordination and advice for local CAUCE chapters,
government agencies, ISP associations and other anti-spam groups. Regarding
APCAUCE’s recent publication, APCAUCE and Outblaze submits comments to Hong Kong regular OFTA, which is available at http://www.outblaze.com/antispam/ofta_info.php and APCAUCE contributes to OECD paper on spam: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/47/34935342.pdf .
In summer 2005, APCAUCE joined London Action Plan which was
founded to help government agencies coordinate internationally on legislation
and enforcement issues related to spam. (URL: http://www.londonactionplan.net/)
APCAUCE is accessible at http://www.apcauce.org and three mailing lists to subscribe which are apcauce-announce,
apcauce-discuss and apcauce-committee.
Finally, the presenter invited all to join next annual
meeting which will be held in conjunction with APRICOT 2006 in Perth, Australia
in February 2006.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.5. APNG by Prof. Okhwa Lee
Prof. Lee, Chair of the APNG, firstly explained the aim of APNG Camp which is
to encourage the next generation and the next-generation-at-heart to join the
Internet society, where in the future they will play a leading role and holds
NEXT GENERATION Camp at regular intervals. Speaking about the history of APNG
camp, APNG believes that its history is as important as our future. The
Internet
History
Museum
will display how the Internet
developed and spread in the region and APNG is cooperating closely with AP* to
create Internet History. She introduced new committee chair, vice chairs, and
members. The fellowship program was initiated from the 5th camp held
in Cairns, Australia. She went through the
committees of the organization team and informed that the 8th Camp
will be held in Singapore from 18-20 July 2006 at National University of
Singapore in conjunction with 22nd APAN meeting and the permanent
secretariat is now hosted by intERLab at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in
Thailand and gave brief information and overview on the chair, vice-chairs, and
WG chairs.
APNG supports ICANN’s At-Large membership and works for the
establishment of Regional At-large Organization (RALO) in the AP region. The
AP-RALO meeting was held on 24 August at Howard Plaza Hotel and was attended by
15 people from the region and chaired by Dr. Kuo Wei Wu. The committee had Yoo
Ji Yul as chair, Izumi Aizu as co-chair and Kaip Chawla, Ching Chia, James
Seng, Hong Xue, Quian Hualin and Tommy Matsumoto were committee members.
Finally, the presenter, Prof. Lee, covered the APNG
organization and other APNG Camp Initiatives and Challenges which are as
follows:
·Continue
APNG Camp
oOnce or twice a
year :
Once a Year
oCooperate with
APAN :
Mainly with APAN Summer Meeting
oCooperate with APRICOT :
depends on
oExpand fellowship program
oHaving camp in developing countries
·Supporting
Local Camp
oFunding sponsor
oParticipation
oStart-up Supporting
Questions and Discussions:
- Originally AP"NG" is not "Next
Generation" but "Networking Group".
- There is no vision for cultivating ex-APNG Camp participants to AP
region Internet leader.
- Mr. Ole Jacobsen mentioned that recently APIA has received request for funding support from APNG to hold
APNG Camp but more collaboration on the contents between APNG Camp and other
conferences (APRICOT etc.) is needed.
2.6. APNIC by Ms. Nurani Nimpuno
The speaker, Ms. Nurani, introduced herself to the attendees again and started
with a slide with pictures of the staff of APNIC who comes from diverse
backgrounds and more than half of them come from regions outside Australia. Regarding member services, in order to
allow APNIC members to get in touch with each other instantly APNIC had
recently launched a ‘Live Chat’ service with extended hours (local public
holidays) and VOIP deployment is underway. Training is an ongoing development
in the areas of DNS, Routing, IPV6, and more recently, on SPAM and Security,
Internet Governance and online training is still under development as well. The
ICONS (Internet Community Online Network Source) is another project being
launched this year. It is an ISP support website which provides guidelines and
sort of portal for people to walk to and provide information about network
engineering, what products are available, provide technical information and so
on and “De-bogonise” new and recovered addresses.
Under technical services, she talked about resource
allocations of IPv4, Ipv6 and ASNs. Another important service which was being
worked on at that moment was resource certificates RFC 3779 (Secure BGP
protocol). Under this project, APNIC will establish a service to issue RFC3779
compliance certificates to APNIC accounts holders, allowing them to make
trusted assertions about their resources. To achieve this APNIC will develop a
policy and technical infrastructure to support the use of resource
certificates. MyAPNIC is one of the services for members to come in and
manipulate their allocations and services. It also has an online voting
feature.
APNIC has also implemented
greylisting on APNIC mail servers in an effort to reduce the amount of spam
APNIC receives. In relating to root servers, Bangladesh and Pakistan have now joined the list of root server hosts,
following two new deployments of F-root mirrors in December. Dhaka server went
live in December and was followed by the launch of Karachi server. These are the first root server deployments in each
country and are expected to bring significant improvements in speed and
reliability to Internet users in Bangladesh, Pakistan and the surrounding regions. The number of root
server mirrors in the Asia Pacific region has grown rapidly in recent years, to
a large extent driven by the APNIC’s efforts in coordinating deployments with
root server operators and local ISP representatives. These recent deployments
bring the number of root DNS servers in the AP region to 26, 18 out of which
have been made possible with APNIC’s support. It was announced that three root
name servers were installed in India: F-Root (Chennai), I-Root (Mumbai), K-Root (Noida) in August and the
K-Root installed in Brisbane, Australia
in June 2005.
Over the past year, the APNIC Secretariat staff have created
a range of multimedia presentations, including video and Flash animations.
These presentations are designed to serve as educational tools and focus on a
variety of different subjects of relevance to APNIC members and the Internet
community in general. The presenter described the project as “a significant
addition to APNIC’s information library”. In the area of Internet Governance, a
number of Internet organizations including NRO, ISOC and ICANN, worked together
on the Internet Pavilion, a stand at the WSIS side event, ICT4all exhibition.
It was visited by a number of representatives from government delegations and
the world’s media as well as from the civil society and the private sector.
Policy status – APNIC 20
·IANA
policy for allocation of IPv6 blocks to RIRs – Approved
·Application
of HD ration to IPv4 – Continue ML discussions
·Depreciation
of ip6.int reverse DNS service in APNIC – Approved
·IPv6
HD ration from 0.8 to 0.94 – Approved
·IPv6
assignment size /56 – No consensus
(URL: www.apnic.net/docs/policy)
Winding up her presentation, the speaker announced the
upcoming APNIC meetings, the 21st APNIC Open Policy Meeting in Perth, Australia
from 22 Feb – 3 Mar 2006. The topics include policy development,
decision-making, education, information sharing, and networking as well as two
full-day tutorials in maximizing IP address potential and practical
introduction to IPv6 which will be conducted by Jordi Palet & APNIC. Since
the Chinese New Year is drawing closer, APNIC sends a little video greeting
which is a wonderful presentation.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.7. APRICOT/APIA by Mr. Ole Jacobsen
The presenter, Mr. Ole Jacobsen, talked about the APIA and APRICOT which are sorts of like one of the same things.
The current members of the APIA board are:
-Abhisak Chulya, Chairman
-Gaurab Upadhaya, Vice-chairman
-Koyko Day, Treasurer
-Philip Smith, Secretary
-Ole Jacobsen
-Scott MacDonald
-James Seng
PIKOM, the Association of the Computer and Multimedia
Industry of Malaysia, is hosting APIA secretariat which was twice previously an APRICOT host and has
lots of good contacts. It can be reached by apia-sec@apia.org.
APIA is a
membership organization which was started as the Internet trade association for
the Asia Pacific. But it was soon discovered that is a way to generate things
to have since Internet is changing everyday and some rooms for over 150
Internet trade organizations. APIA is the parent organization for the APRICOT. APIA membership is not large, in the order of a dozen individuals
and half a dozen organizations, but funding comes from the main event, APRICOT.
The role of APRICOT is like an annual Asia-Pacific Internet Summit which has
intensive workshops, tutorials and conference and associated meetings like
APNIC and AP* etc. APIA Board participates actively in the APRICOT Management
Committee, evaluates bids for future APRICOTs and so on.
APIA
also participates in endorsing and supporting related orgs like SANOG which
becomes more like mini APRICOT, and CommunicAsia. Plans for 2006-7 are to
expand collaboration with other organizations and to address the strategic
focus and direction of APRICOT and APIA like
funding model for APIA
and future direction of APRICOT.
APRICOT2006 is like a sort of two-week event starting from
February 22 through March 3rd, and including workshops, tutorials,
conference and APNIC maintenance. At the end of the presentation, the presenter
opened for questions and discussions.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions were put up and further discussions held
after the presentation.
2.8. APRU by Dr. Zita
Wenzel
The speaker, Dr. Zita, said that APRU http://www.apru.net.org/ is a group of thirty six leading research universities across the Pacific Rim. It is a little bit of unusual organization because it is a president
and CEO level organization that is the president or chancellor of each of these
schools are representatives within APRU and they cannot even designate their
duties down or over to someone else. So, thirty six presidents and chancellors
meet in person to discuss APRU’s activities. APRUNet is one of the
activities that APRU which has a number of normally scholarly activities,
faculty research symposium, faculty exchanges, graduate students exchanges,
graduate students’ symposium and so forth. APRUNet aims to assist in the
development of advanced Internet capabilities among APRU universities and APEC
economies in collaboration with strategic partners. The main goal is to develop
teaching and research applications that utilize advanced Internet technologies,
e.g., distance learning, virtual conferences, telemedicine, remote sensing. The
strategic partners are Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium (APAN),
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in
California
(CENIC) and University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
(UCAID/Internet2).
APRUNet projects:
- With APAN “e-Learning Specifications Workshop”
- With APAN “Grid Graphics Competition”
- APRUNet/Internet2 Videoconferencing Workshops
- Distance Learning Partnership Project
- East Asian Studies, Global Infectious Diseases, Marine and
Ocean Biology
- Distance Learning Online Discussion
- Distance Learning Portal
- APRUNet Newsletter
- “Distance Learning and the Internet” Conference
APRUNet has held six “Distance Learning and the Internet Conferences”
over the past years:
- 2000
University
of
Southern California
- 2001
Kyoto
University
- 2002
University
of
Sydney
and
Australian
National
University
, Canberra
- 2003
National
University
of Singapore
- 2004
Tsinghua
University
, Beijing
- 2005 Far Eastern
National
University
, Vladivostok, Russia
These are major international conferences on distance
learning and the Internet and the speaker said they have been getting better
and better. It is primarily attended by the APRU Universities but the presenter
emphasized that it is open to everyone and encouraged the others to take part
in it or pass the information to their respective organizations that might be
interested in attending it. The next conference “Distance Learning and the
Internet Conference 2006”will be hosted by University of Tokyo, Japan,
from 8-10 November 2006. The theme of the conference is “Technology Enabled
Global Knowledge Structuring”. Sub-themes includes Mobile and ubiquitous learning, Open knowledge sharing, Virtual
labs, Multi-lingual learning environment, Content development support and
technology trends.
Questions and Discussions:
- No
questions and discussions were held.
2.9. APTLD by Ms. Ohashi Yumi
The speaker, Ms. Ohashi Yumi, introduced herself to all
attendees and apologized for handouts unreadiness in the meeting folders. APTLD
(www.aptld.org) is an association for Asia
Pacific Top Level Domains. It is a regional organization for ccTLD Managers in Asia and the Pacific. At present it has twenty three ccTLD members and more are
expected to join. The main objective is to enhance cooperation and
information sharing between ccTLD managers. The secretariat is currently based
in Wellington, New Zealand.
Speaking about the activities carried out by the association
in 2005, the speaker informed the attendees that they had three meetings.
October meeting was the first APTLD meeting in the Western Asia (Jordan), and it was followed by a regular cycle of
meetings around the region. Thruough these meetings, APTLD set
up a new working group and web-based forum to share information and experience.
Also, in the meetings they decided to expand staff function by hiring a General
Manager. Currently, the recruiting process is underway. They believe that GM appointment will lead to stronger outreach efforts in future. APTLD submitted a written comment on WSIS and ICANN ccNSO’s policy.
Lastly for outreach, adopting the proposal
given by AIT in Bangkok,
APTLD decided that the Secretariat prepare a work plan to hold one or two
training sessions as AIT in 2006. APTLD hopes the Training program under
development with AIT (Bangkok) will improve APTLD’s ability to offer useful services to
current and potential members.
Winding up her presentation, the presenter outlined the
future plans: expanding the web content available to members
and remote participation options for APTLD meetings by making a better use of
online meetings. Once the GM is in place, the resources will be increased and
committed to outreach in areas of the region not covered by their next meeting
and as well as to work with ICANN to develop their plans for greater regional
outreach, as ICANN intends to establish proper regional presence as defined in
their strategic plan. APTLD hopes to implement plans for the AIT (Bangkok) training facility for ccTLD Managers. As upcoming
meetings, AGM will be held in Wellington, New Zealand
on 25 March in conjunction with ICANN Meeting. July and October meeting will be
held in Sri Lanka and Dubai but the place is yet to be decided.
Questions and Discussions:
-No questions and discussions were held.
2.10. AIII/SOI-Asia by Ms.
Shoko Mikawa
The presenter briefed about SOI-Asia project which is a
distance learning project using the Internet infrastructure or satellite link
Internet. It has been working on developing Asian region by sharing lectures,
human resource development, and building human communication networks. With one
gateway site at
Keio
University
, the
high quality audio and video lectures can be delivered to Asian partners at
anyplace which has sufficient Internet bandwidth. It has shared 11 university
level courses and 131 lectures. The topics include IT/BIO/MARINE etc. So far,
there are 20 partner universities in 11 countries and a collaborative
environment has been developed with AIII. The countries include Malaysia, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and Philippines. In order to sustain this environment, two
meetings are held annually.
One of the major activities in 2005 was giving support
toward recovery from Tsunami disaster which was occured on December 26. From
Syiah
Kuala
University
, the biggest university in Aceh province in Indonesia, 190 faculty members in 8 departments passed
away during Tsunami. Other SOI-Asia’s efforts are Special Symposiums Sharing
Knowledge Across Borders – Tsunami. SOI-Asia environment was established in
Syiah
Kuala
University
by switching satellite connections with JP/Indonesia, sharing lectures
within and out of Indonesia since November 2005.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.11. AP* Retreat Secretariat by Ms. Wit
Hmone
AP* is a community of AP Internet organizations and AP*
Retreat is a common to exchange updated information among these organizations.
The meetings are being held twice a year, one with APRICOT and another one with
APAN. In 2005, the first meeting was held in conjunction with APRICOT 2005 in Kyoto, Japan and the second
one was held in Taipei, Taiwan in conjunction with 20th APAN meeting. This year in Tokyo, the meeting is held in conjunction with 21st APAN
meeting whereas the next meeting is yet to be decided in the last program of
today’s meeting. AP* Retreat Secretariat is hosted by intERLab at AIT in Thailand. It acts as International liaison with other AP*
organizations, organizes AP* Retreat meetings and maintains AP* website. The
presenter briefed about meeting expenses in Taipei and Tokyo
in where meeting expenses are a bit high. Regarding contributions AP* Retreat
Secretariat received, it is mentioned that the last contribution came from AP
Joint Secretariat and amount totaled was USD 5000 in November 2004. The
Secretariat extended special thanks to Prof. Toru Takahashi from IAJ/RIIS for
covering meeting expenses in Tokyo and Hiro HOTTA from JPRS for support of some technical
equipments to partly cover the equipment expenses.
Questions and Discussions:
-Dr. Zita appreciated the Secretariat’s assistance in organizing
today’s meeting.
-Mr. Jacobsen suggested to think of a funding model for supporting
AP* Retreat meetings like a corporate sponsorship.
-Mr. Hotta also added that it would be very grateful if funding
issues should be raised and discussed since meeting expenses cannot be covered
ONLY by the contributions collected.
-In response to Mr. Jacobsen’s point on how much budget would be
needed for the AP* Retreat Secretariat, the Secretariat mentioned that the
annual budget USD 6000 would do the smooth running of the secretariat.
2.12. DotAsia Organisation by Mr.
Che-Hoo CHENG
Dot Asia is a new top
level domain for Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet community. In order to
operate .Asia, a new organisation called DotAsia limited has been developed. It
is a so-called a sponsor or sponsoring organisation or registry of .ASIA sTLD
which is the terminology used by ICANN. .ASIA is a not-for-profit, bottom-up
community based, organisation incorporated in Hong Kong and owned by the
Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet whereas the ccTLDs in AP Region are the
sponsor members and regional based Internet/IT/Telecom groups and other
relevant community organisations are co-sponsor members. It has an open and
accessible governance comprising of Board of 11 (8 will be selected by
sponsors, 2 by co-sponsors and 1 CEO), Advisory Council (1 representative from
each co-sponsor, plus other experts appointed by the Board) and proceeds
steering committee which selects community projects to fund.
Vision:
- Leverage the successful and cooperative platform of the
Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet community to further this collaborative
approach to other areas of the growing economies.
Mission:
- Sponsor, establish and operate an Internet namespace with
global recognition and regional significance dedicated to the needs of the
Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet community
- Reinvest surpluses in socio-technological advancement
initiatives relevant to the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet community
- Operate a viable not-for-profit initiative that is a
technically advanced, world-class TLD registry for the Pan-Asia and Asia
Pacific community
The boundaries of the DotAsia community are clearly defined
based on the ICANN Asia/ Australia / Pacific region. Eligibility of domain
registrations is restricted to legal entities within the boundary. The Pan-Asia
and Asia Pacific Internet community is a thriving community and has seen many
successful bottom up community based collaborative initiatives in the past and
continuing forward. Examples include APNG, APNIC, APTLD and etc. A
feature of the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific Internet community is that ccTLDs are
particularly involved in the promotion and advocacy of Internet usage and
adoption in the local community.
Till now, the organization has not yet been set up. However,
DotAsia has received signed LOI from 23 members to join the initiative
including 20 ccTLDs and 3 regional organizations. Many of the participating
ccTLDs have direct or indirect relationships with the respective ministry or
relevant authority. Among the 20 ccTLDs that have joined the DotAsia, more than
a handful have not participated previously at ICANN nor have they joined
regional groups or even the GAC. DotAsia have received in total more than 50
letters of support from a board spectrum of organizations, including government
departments, end-user groups, ISP associations and other community groups and
respectable individuals. No objection has been received from government.
Special Features:
·Pan-Asia
and Asia Pacific regional presence requirement
·Augmenting
UDRP & WIPO reserved domains list with local DRP & reserved lists
•Improve regional intellectual property rights protection
•Especially important for IDNs
·Joint
marketing with ccTLDs
·Reinvests
surpluses into socio-technical initiatives in Asia
•Leverage existing initiatives
·Support
fully standards compliant IDN deployment
·No
objection has been received from governments
Milestones:
- 2000: first discussion about an Asia focused TLD at ccTLD meetings
- 2002: 2 Initiatives were started (merged into one in early
2004)
- Dec 2003: ICANN sTLD RFP
- Feb 2004: Formal and Informal Discussions at APRICOT, AP*,
APTLD, APNG, etc.
- Mar 2004: ICANN Rome informal gathering
- Mar 2004: Submission of proposal to ICANN
- July 2004: Inaugural Board meeting at ICANN Kuala Lumpur
Contract negotiation with ICANN is still
going on and hopefully contract will be signed soon. DotAsia Organisation
Limited was formally set up and recruited members including AP-based
organizations. The reversed name list was established in cooperation with ccTLD
members and governments in the region from AP and hopefully, .ASIA will be launched
by end of 2006.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
2.13. intERLab by Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut
Prof. Kanchana briefed about intERLab’s history by saying
that a Human Resources Development Coordination center in the Asia Pacific
Region was needed and AIT being an international institution fitted the
requirements. Launched on December 15, 2003, it was endorsed by the ministry of
Information and Communication Technology in Thailand. The primary partners of the intERLab are Asia
Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Network Startup Resource Center
(NSRC), Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) and WIDE/AI3/SOI-Asia, whereas
INRIA (France), WIDE Project, NECTEC,
Kasetsart
University
,
Prince of Songkhla and more are research partners. intERLab provides the
following services:
•AP
Internet
Information
Center
•Training
•e-Education (e-Learning)
•Research
At the AP Internet Information Center, intERLab hosts AP*
Retreat secretariat, APAN secretariat (up to Dec ’05), APNIC Training Event
Coordinator and APNG permanent secretariat starting from October 2005. Speaking
about intERLab’s trainings during last six months, in 2005, the TEIN2 Kick-off
workshop was held from 5-10 September 2005 at intERLab/AIT in Thailand and very successful. In 2005, Asian Internet
Engineering Conference 2005 was held from 13-15 December at Rama Garden Hotel
in Thailand with the sponsorships of AIT, APAN-TH, French
Regional Cooperation and WIDE Project. Before that, the pre-conference “
Asian
School
of Computer Science” 2-day graduate course organized by AIT jointly with INRIA (France) was held
from 11-12 December at AIT, Thailand.
Upcoming trainings for 2006:
•Advanced Network Security (6-10 February)
•VoIP and SIP (15-16 March)
•Basic DNS (30-31 May)
•Advanced DNS Workshop (20-23 June)
•Basic Routing (23-25 August)
•Advanced Routing (28-30 August)
•Multicast Workshop (25-27 October)
•Trouble Shooting (TBC)
•Emergency Response (TBC)
Upcoming conference in 2006:
•Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2006, 28-30
November 2006 @ AIT, Thailand
•Pre-conference: 17th
Asian
School
on Computer Science, 26-27
November 2006, @ AIT, Thailand
The intERLab is working closely with AI3, Asia Broadband,
THAIREN, TEIN2 for Internet infrastructure projects in the area of rural
connectivity, eCulture, ENUM Study and Multimedia Architecture and Applications
based on SIP and a joint research grant with INRIA and the Japanese WIDE
project on “IPv6 and Rural Connectivity” which was started in 2004.
Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions were held.
5. The Internet in the AP region –
Introduction by Mr. Atsushi ENDO and Dr. Zita Wenzel
AP* organizations listed on AP* website (www.apstar.org) were reviewed by the
attendees.
In response to the question raised by the Co-chair Dr. Zita
whether there are any other Internet related organizations that should be
represented by AP* and/or not, Prof. Toru advised to add Asia Pacific Internet
Research Alliance (APiRA) and Asia Pacific
Information Infrastructure (APII). Prof. Goto added that APII is more like a
project which is let by APEC-TEL WG.
6. Future of the AP* Retreat
One of existing goals of the AP* is it could be a platform
to operate a powerful federation of Asia Pacific Internet organizations which
is the original goal of AP* Retreat.
Presents were:
•APAN coordinating international Asia Pacific networking
•APCERT coordinating Asia Pacific security
•APEET coordinating ENUM trials and education
•APCAUCE coordinating Asia Pacific
unsolicited commercial email
•APNG coordinating Asia Pacific internet camp
•APNIC coordinating IP address space, experts, root servers
•APOPS coordinating operators
•APRICOT/APIA
•APRU Pacific Rim universities distance learning partnerships
•APTLD coordinating Asia Pacific Top Level Domains
•AIII/SOI distance learning project
•AP* Retreat coordinating Asia Pacific organizations
•intERLab research and training facility for Asia Pacific
13 out of 44 AP organizations presented and gave updated
reports at today’s meeting.
Mission of AP* Retreat
It was created in 1998. The vision of AP* is to
provide a strong united front for all Asia Pacific internet organizations to deal
with international issues of governance, administration, management, research,
development, education, public awareness of the Internet.
Original goals set were:
•How we could improve networking within AP* organizations?
•This could be a platform for us to inaugurate a powerful
Federation of Asia Pacific Internet Organizations (FAPIO).
•Asia Pacific's role in the future of Internet governance.
•Watch over activities in this region and respond.
The Co-chair Dr. Zita summarized the three bullet points
from discussions held in previous sections:
•Networking and sharing (interpersonal and organizational)
•Activities, meetings, events
•Common voice to address international issues (after US, Europe)
•e.g., APNIC
•Identify needs / issues and propose solutions /activities
•Create a body or program (e.g., APTLD in coordination with Top
Level Domain, intERLab for training and education for AP region)
Past Achievements or Outgrowth of AP* Retreat
•Human networking and information sharing
•Organizations:
–APCCIRN -> APNG
–APNG -> APNIC
–APNG -> APIA -> APRICOT
–APTLD
–MINC
–intERLab
–.Asia
•“History of the Internet in Asia Pacific”
–and timeline to go along with
Prof. Goto gave a comment that since APCCIRN was the only
coordinating body in Asia on the Internet
then, it ended up to coordinate various matters on the Internet. The first
matter was the creation of the regional IP registry, APNIC, which was formally
started in 1993. Later, APCCIRN was renamed to APNG (Asia Pacific Networking
Group).
Speaking about achievements, Prof. Goto added that APAN
should be counted too because it was initiated by almost the same people.
Prof. Lee advised to discuss and to categorize the
organizations represented here today were whether in government orgs or NGOs or
industry or research groups etc. or else, AP* was open to all.
Prof. Goto said one of the motives that AP* Retreat is quite
simple which is to share the common calendar of the schedules. For example APAN
trying to hold the meeting and we don’t want to clash with other meetings. The
current AP* webpage is well maintained and there is also related meetings page
and easy to cross-check to avoid any clashes or to co-locate it intentionally
side by side. Response to this fact, Zita confirmed that it is a very valid and
concrete for information sharing among AP* orgs.
Prof. Kanchana added that AP* Retreat a meeting place not
only for sharing information but also sharing resources. Ms. Yumi Ohashi also
supported this fact by mentioning the joint collaboration between APTLD and
intERLab for outreach training, initiated in AP* Retreat, is a concrete example
that we should keep the human networking and resource sharing as one of our
goals.
Mr. Hotta recalled that in the past AP* Retreat talked about
AP Joint Secretariat. Prof. Kanchana mentioned that the intERLab is a de-facto
but it is working out so well. APJS was the idea of Prof. Kilnam Chon who
decided to set it up.
Regarding the actions coming out of identifying needs and
propose solution, Dr. Zita gave an example the fact that there is the need for
training and education for the community in the region, and then intERLab was
created to address that issue. That’s the very strong statement to keep the
third bullet point. Prof. Kanchana said that there will also be new needs/issues/demands
coming up in the future and need to address these issues so that it is very
valid to hold this third goal. She asked for a better commitment from the
members in executing the activities. Just identifying the areas is not enough
but needs to commit.
7. AP* Retreat Report to the APAN General
Assembly
The AP* Retreat was held on Sunday, January 22 in conjunction with the APAN
meeting. AP* is an open meeting of various Asia Pacific internet organizations.
At different times, up to 44 organizations have participated.
Representatives from 13 Asia Pacific internet organizations reported on their
organizations’ activities on Sunday. Started in 1998, this meeting “The AP*
Retreat Retreat” reviewed the group’s history and reset goals for the coming years.
Previously, the goals of AP* included sharing information and networking
(reports are given from all participating organizations), providing a forum to
build Asia Pacific support for international issues (for example, formation of
APTLD), and identifying issues and providing solutions (such as the need for Asia Pacific training and education and the creation of intERLab at AIT/APNG
Camp).
The current goals are:
• Act as an initial point of contact for Asia Pacific networking
organizations
- Via web site links
- By presentations at other meetings (e.g., APAN)
• Be open to input of issues from outside community
- Identification of larger Asia Pacific representation issues
• Networking and sharing (interpersonal and organizational)
- Activities, meetings, events, calendars
- Collaborations and partnerships
- Share resources (experts, equipment, information)
• Identify needs / issues and propose solutions /activities
- Reports include identification of current issues
- Commitment to help address solutions
Current AP* Organizations
•AP* Retreat coordinating Asia Pacific networking organizations
• APAN
coordinating international Asia Pacific networking
•APCERT coordinating Asia Pacific security
•APEET coordinating Asia Pacific ENUM trails and education
•APCAUCE coordinating Asia
Pacific unsolicited commercial email
•APNG coordinating Asia Pacific internet camp
•APNIC coordinating Asia Pacific IP address space, root servers
•APOPS coordinating Asia Pacific network operators
•APRICOT/APIA providing Asia Pacific conferences and events
•APRU Pacific Rim universities distance learning partnerships
•APTLD coordinating Asia Pacific Top Level Domains
•AII/SOI Asia Pacific distance learning project
•intERLab research and training facility for Asia Pacific
13 organizations represented on Sunday out of 44 total
affiliated ones.
Original AP* Goals
•How we can improve networking within AP* organizations?
•This could be a platform for us to inaugurate a powerful
Federation of Asia Pacific Internet Organizations.
•Provide input on Asia Pacific’s role in the future of Internet
governance.
•Watch over activities in this region and respond.
AP* History and Achievements
•Human networking and information sharing
oOrganization reports and calendar coordination
•Organizations:
oAPCCIRN ŕ APNG
oAPNG ŕ APNIC
oAPNG ŕ APIA ŕ APRICOT
oAPTLD
oMINC
ointERLab
o.Asia
•“History of the Internet in Asia Pacific”
oAnd time line
Actual AP* Goals
•Networking and sharing (interpersonal and organizational)
oActivities, meetings, events (e.g., calendars)
•Common voice to address international issues
oe.g., APTLD
•Identify needs/issues and propose solutions/ activities
oCreate a body (APNG/camp) or program (intERLab)
Rebuilt AP* Goals
•Networking and sharing (interpersonal and organizational)
oActivities, meetings, events, calendar coordination
oCollaborations and partnerships (APTLD and intERLab)
oShare resources (experts, equipment, information)
•Identify needs/ issues and propose solutions/ activities
oReports will include identification of current issues
oCommitment to help address solutions
oBe open to input of issues from outside community
•Act as an initial point of contact for Asia Pacific networking
organizations
oIdentification of larger Asia Pacific representation issues
oWeb site links to other organizations
oPresentations at other meetings (eg., APAN)
AP* Collaboration
We want to emphasize:
•AP* is an open organization.
•AP* is a starting point into at least 44 Asia Pacific networking
organizations.
•It is encouraged to input about current issues facing the Asia
Pacific community today so that perhaps AP* can help draw resources from its
participants to provide resources and/or solutions.
8. Others and Future Meetings
-After much discussion, it was decided to hold the next AP Retreat
meeting in Singapore on 17 July 2006 in conjunction with next summer, 22nd APAN meeting. APNG Camp will be also held from 18-20 July 2006 in conjunction
with APAN meeting in Singapore.
-Mr. James Seng and Dr. Zita Wenzel were recommended unanimously
as co-chairs for the next meeting.
-The meeting adjourned at 5:00 PM.
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