APSTAR.ORG - The community of Asia Pacific Internet Organization

AP* is the Community of Asia Pacific Internet Organisations mooted in 1998 and the mailing list set up in Nov 1998.Key Leaders from the following Organisations are invited to

1. APNG Asia Pacific Networking Group
2. APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
3. APTLD Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Forum
4. APIA Asia & Pacific Internet Association
5. APAN Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium
6. APPLe Asia Pacific Policy and Legal Forum
7. APRICOT Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
8. APDIP Asia- Pacific Development Information Programme PAN/IDRC
9. INFITT International Forum for IT in Tamil
10. APBioNet Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network
11. ccTLD secretariat
12. AI3 Asia Internet Interconnection Initiative and others

It is an Asia Pacific Federation of AP* Internet organisations with the coverage as indicated below:

* Research and strategic overview
* numbers
* names
* Policy legal
* trade and industry
* training and education in operations
* Advanced Networks and Advanced Networking technologies
* user membership
* domain specific areas such as bioinformatics

This could be a platform for us to inaugurate a powerful Federation of Asia Pacific Internet Organisations (FAPIO) we discused on AP* Joint Secretariat, and decided to develop in Singapore and Hong Kong. We need to develop one now to host new organizations as well as the existing organizations, and Singapore is the first site to work on the development, and plans to bid for ccTLD Interim Secretariat in two weeks as well as MINC Secretariat in April-June. Other sites such as Hong Kong, Korea, and Thailand are expected to complement the initial Joint Secretariat in Singapore in various capacities. Web Consortium: There is an urgent need to form the web consortium. They need to first concentrate on the multilingual names and then DNSO WG to come with the ICANN position.

- Form a working group to work on the iDNS
- Need more resources
- We are blamed as Asia ? whats the contribution to the internet from asia

Note:

- Only policy making org
- Task group formation process
- Each country should come to consensus
- Multilingual name is going to happen with or without iDNS

Summary

- Dispute on intellectual property
- On the proposal by Kilnam Chon
- WG to DNSO
- WG should be in formational
- Who should have the authority

Note: Consensus in forming a consortium so that they can deal with dispute issues

Consensus to be formed on 2 issues

1. DNSO WG formation
2. Multilingual Internet Name Consortium Formation

STRAW POLL

1.1. definitely not 1-Bill
1.2. postpone until consensus 12
1.3. definitely now 14

Conclusion: Need to form the DNSO WG formation now.