Questions and Discussions:
-    In response to the questions raised by Mr. Hiro, the presenter replied that the current secretariat of APCERT is JPCERT/CC.
-    The speaker responded Mr. Izumi’s question that some promising countries which could become APCERT member in near future are Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and APCERT is helping them to develop local CERTs.

 

2.4.    APNG by Mr. Sumith Gamage

The speaker gave an update report on APNG. AP Next Generation works collaboratively for the betterment of the Next Generation with the support of Regional Leaders. The speaker explained the organization structure of APNG. The objectives are:

Its mission is to promote the Internet and the coordination of network inter-connectivity in the Asia Pacific Region. It also represents the “Asia Pacific Next Generation” raising the voice of the Next Generation of the region.

 

Executive Committee:

Tommy Matsumoto (Head)
Kilnam Chon (Advisor)
Kanchana Kanchanasut
Paul Wilson
Xing Li
Che-Hoo Cheng

 

Since its 5th Camp, APNG Camp Committee has incorporated a Fellowship Program to provide opportunities for people of developing countries to participate in APNG Camp. We would like to continue this endeavor for the fifth time due to its continued success and its importance for securing the participation of young generation from developing countries. APNG operates through Steering Committee and a. It holds yearly meetings in different locations throughout the Asia Pacific Region. Each meeting is usually associated with either APAN meeting or APRICOT, focusing on current topics of interest related to networking. This time in Xi’an, 9th APNG Camp was held from 27 – 30 September 2007. Online committee meetings were held once a month and APNG also presented in AP* Retreat meeting in Bali in February 2007.

Committee members always make all information accessible in order to provide a total transparency. APNG is trying to outreach the next generation is Asia Pacific as much as possible and also working closely with Dot Asia. Next APNG Camp will be held at AIT in Thailand which was the first APNG Camp was held.

 

Questions and Discussions:
-    No questions and discussions held.

 

2.5.    AP RALO by Mr. Izumi Aizu, ANR

At last, AT LARGE organizations came into existence to all five regions:
- LAC RALO:    Dec 06
- AP RALO: Feb 07
- AF RALO: Apr 07
- EU RALO: Apr 07
- NA RALO: July 07
Also more than 100 ALSes are certified. And the speaker thanks all delegates in AP* today’s meeting and others in AP region for warm support.

Currently, there are 15 ALAC members whereas 9 out of 15 came to ALAC after April this year. More than half of the members are new. It took more than four years time for RALO. Mr. Izumi thanked Tommy and Xue Hong, former ALAC members from AP. The form is now formalized so that a substance is needed. And seemingly having attention of other constituencies of ICANN to ALAC’s voices.

The challenges are to have, especially organizational mechanism, and need more ALSes to join. At Bali meeting in February, APRALO was formalized. The celebration will be held in 2008 but details are yet to be decided. The business meeting was to be held in July. The outcomes of the meeting were:

• APRALO physical meetings: To be held twice a year.o   
  • ICANN AP meeting
  • APRICOT and ICANN or during IGF 2008 in Delhi in November.
• APTLD also intends to hold a meeting during IGF
• APRALO teleconferences:
  • 4th Tuesday of every month
• APRALO-APTLD co-operation:
  • Working Group: Christopher To and Edmon Chung
• APRALO Outreach:
  • Working Group: Cheryl Langdon-Orr and T. Matsumoto
• Budget and Projects:
  • Working budget and project plan, 3 to 5 year plan expected
  • Working Group formed
• Issues Working Groups:
  • Various policy working groups within ICANN/ALAC
  • APRALO Working Group on the issue and will be assisted by at least one other member from the APRALO community.
• Working Group Structure:
  • All Working Groups will have AP RALO Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretariat as Ex-Officio members.
• Development of APRALO Statement (s) on Issue (s):
  • Function of Working Groups with input from APRALO community
• APRALO Website
• APRALO Work plan

ALAC review is starting every three years of ICANN constituencies for independent review by external contractor. The policy issues placed for ALAC are:

 

• Existing issues:
  • WHOIS: not much progress
  • IDN: some development, but slot
  • NewgTLDs geoTLD
• Next issues
  • Registrar relation
  • Domain Name Tasting/monetization
• Issue report requested by ALAC

ALAC requested ICANN staff to produce Issue Report.

 

Working Groups:

• IDN Policy
• WHOIS Policy
  • ALAC has a liaison just for this issue.
• Registrant – Registrar Relation
  • New Working Group formed
• IPv4-v6 Challenge
  • New Working Group formed
  • Good support indicated
  • Liaise with NRO and others

Finally, a brief explanation on At Large Budget was presented.

Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions held.

 

2.6.    APTLD by Mr. Hiro Hotta

On behalf of Mr. Don Hollander, General Manager of APTLD, the speaker gave an update on APTLD activities. Asia Pacific Top Level Domains Association (APTLD) is a regional organization for ccTLD managers in Asia and Pacific with cooperation and information sharing between ccTLD managers. APTLD covers all ccTLDs in Pacific, Asia and in the Middle East. Cultural diversity, language diversity and Geography are very HUGE. Currently, 25 ccTLD managers and it is expected more to come.

 

Characteristics of members:

• Large to Very Small
• Sophisticated to very simple
• Financially well off to financially struggling
• Private for Profit, Gov’t Dept, NGO, Univ
• All keen to be better at what they do
• All willing to help one another – and learn from one another

APTLD activities in 2007

• Four Meetings
  –    Bali (Feb 2007 in conjunction with APRICOT)
  –    Dubai (June 2007)
  –    Honiara (August 2007)
  –    Bangkok (October 2007)
• Training Programs
  –    Non-Technical (Bali & Dubai)
  –    Advanced Technical (Oct 2007 in Bangkok)
  –    Shared Sessions with Members (e.g. IPv6 in NZ)
  –    Various with Malaysia
• Two Research Projects
  –    Elasticity of Demand for Domain Names
  –    Resiliency & Redundancy – How much is enough – Guidelines for Operators

More details on the training opportunity are posted on the APTLD web site.

APTLD issued the statement on FastTrack Introduction of dot.IDN on a very limited basis. Also extended status quo for ccTLD managers to one additional TLD in local script.

APTLD’s position on dot.IDN, abstract from the statement …

“Allow each existing ccTLD to manage one additional country or territory specific ccTLD in a recognised non-ASCII script of their country or territory.  The name will be determined by the ccTLD’s local Internet community.    APTLD recognises that this will not meet the demand for a few ccTLDs with multiple non-ASCII scripts and we will actively pursue the policy development solution to meet their needs too.
Manage a six-month comment period for the international community to lodge substantive objections to the names chosen as not being relevant for the ccTLD.  This will ensure that spurious names are not chosen.”

 

APTLD Values

• Open
  –    All content is published and freely available.
  –    All meetings are open
  –    All ccTLDs are welcome
  –    All interested parties are welcome

The principal focus of APTLD is on Local; Commercial/Admin; Technical; Global Policy; and IDNs.


Next APTLD meeting is to be held on October 24 and 25 in Bangkok and all are invited to join. Some of the agenda items are: IDN’s – dot.IDN – How to Move Forward; IDN.ccTLD – Technical & Policy Considerations; 4R’s – Registries, Registrars, Resellers & Registrants and many more topics will be discussed.

Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions held.

 

2.7.    Dot Asia by Mr. Ching Chiao

Dot Asia has been on the road show for quite a while. It is a membership-based, not-for-profit Organization incorporated in Hong Kong SAR, China, and the first gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) based in Asia.

• Milestones:
  –    First discussions: 2000
  –    Submission of proposal (to ICANN): March 2004
  –    Approval of ICANN: Dec 2005
  –    Signing of Contract with ICANN: Dec 6, 2006
  –    Sunrise (i.e. launch) of .Asia: 2007

It now has 20 ccTLD managers and 3 of them including APNG, APNIG and PAN are co-sponsors.

2007: Sunrises in Asia

• Pre-Sunrise: March 21~August 30, 2007
  –    Deadline of Reserved Names List Submission: July 12, 2007
• Pioneer Domain Program: July 11~September 10, 2007
• Sunrise 1 (Government): Oct 9th, 2007
• Sunrise 2 (Trademarks) & 3 (Entity Names)
  –    SR2a (Early Bird Sunrise): Oct 9th~30st, 2007
  –    SR2b, 2c and SR3: Nov 13th ~ Jan 15th, 2007
• Landrush: Feb 2008
• GoLive: Mar 2008

Pre-sunrise meant Dot Asia has already received 73 countries/economies in Asia Pacific, the reserved names will include countries names and it variances, major cities, trademarks and service marks owned by these countries and government. The list has been prepared based on the different resources whereas one the sources that used was CIA’s world fact book.

As for Reserved Names Policy, the policy paper has been developed and sent the GAC members on late March, and 3 more follow up reminders sent as well. Members of the GAC should be aware of the suggested tiers that we develop for different types of names. Tier 1, Tier and 2 Tier 3 etc.

For GACKREF, DotAsia considers ICANN GAC Representatives as default. If a government has no GAC rep., it coordinates with its ccTLD manager (listed on the IANA database).

DotAsia Members are expected to benefit from:
–    Participation in the governance of the first global TLD from Asia, for Asia;
–    Bringing views and perspectives from local or constituent communities to the policy development and activities of the .ASIA registry;
–    Participation in the development of the directives of DotAsia, as a not-for-profit organization, to reinvest its proceeds back into the Asia community;
–    Involvement in the promotion of the adoption and usage of the Internet in Asia at large; and
–    Collaborative of efforts and sharing of ideas for the development of the community between counterparts and like-minded organisations around Asia

 

DotAsia Members are expected to contribute to:
–    The promotion of the .ASIA domain:
        –    Assist in raising public awareness of the .ASIA domain in general
        –    Work closely with the .ASIA Registry on activities in the local or constituent communities
        –    Jointly promote positive usage of domain names including .ASIA and the ccTLDs in the local or constituent communities
–    Participate in meetings and discussions for development of DotAsia
–    The nomination of board and advisory council members
–    Vote during elections and constitutional matters
–    Help identify or develop community programs suitable for DotAsia to participate in.

So far, DotAsia supports the following community events:

• ICANN
  –    Lisbon, Puerto Rico, and LA
  –    Regional Industry Gathering in HK (July)
• APRICOT
  –    Bali 2007: Bronze
  –    Taipei 2008: in Discussion
• APNG Xi’an
  –    Blog project with APNG camp participants
• APTLD, AP* etc.
• Others:
  –    Taiwan Blogger BoF
  –    Interop Japan
  –    Domain Forum HK
  –    Wikimania 2007

Questions and Discussions:
-    In response to Prof. Kanchana’s question relating to concerns of long reserved names in Thailand in which it may lead to higher costs, Mr. Ching said at this moment more than 300 names were reserved. And it is confirmed that no fees charged for reserving names. Only when they would like to activate it through ICANN registered registrars, the fees will be charged.


2.8.    intERLab by Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut

intERLab was established at AIT in late 2003 and agreed at the AP* Retreat in 2000. The aim to set up intERLab (www.interlab.ait.ac.th) is to be the regional center for Human Resources Development. The primary partners are: AI3 in Japan, APNIC, APAN, INRIA in France, NSRC in USA, SOI-Asia/WIDE Project in Japan, and many more. Partner in research activities are: INRIA (France), WIDE Project (Japan), NECTEC (Thailand), Kasetsart University (Thailand), and Prince of Songkhla University (Thailand) and intERLab always welcome new partners.

intERLab has been running 5 to 6 technical trainings each year with approximately 20 attendees per training. The resource persons are from AP organizations like APAN NOCs, APNIC, TEIN2 (GEANT), NSRC (USA Teams) and the training partners are Cisco, Juniper & ThaiREN. Under the umbrella of intERLab, we have four main units:

• AP Internet Information Center
• Training
• e-Education (e-Learning)
• Research

At the AP Internet Information Center, intERLab hosts AP* Retreat secretariat, APNIC Training Event Coordinator and APNG permanent secretariat.

The presenter brought “Internet Crime: Prevention, Detection and Investigation” workshop to the attention of the delegates. A pre-workshop seminar would be “Underground Economy” by Team Cymru. The instructors’ team was formed by Team Cymru, APNIC, and JPCERT/CC.

intERLab is helping National University of Laos with ICT Development which is covered by Swedish Government. The 3-day “ICT Policy Planning and Strategy Development” is being planned to conduct on 10-12 September 2007.

In the area of research, intERLab will organize annual Asian Internet Engineering Conference in order to disseminate research outputs and projects. APNIC is one of the sponsors to this conference which will be held in Phuket on 27-29 November 2007. If funding is available, APNG fellows will be invited to join the conference. Join-collaborations with colleagues from Thai Universities and research institutes and AIT, INRIA, WIDE and GET-INT are also going on and many activities with French research institutes because France is the only country which supports ICT activities in Asia.

In terms of Internet Infrastructure project, intERLab takes part in several R&D for infrastructure with AI3, ThaiREN, TEIN2 and more. intERLab’s focus on rural connectivity, emergency networks and IP Broadcasting which all will help Internet application in this region.

Recent activities are as follows:

• DVTS over heterogeneous network
  
  • Workshop on Video Streaming Technology on TEIN2 – 14-15 March 2007, Paris, FR
  • Workshop on Video Streaming Technology on TEIN2 – 23rd APAN Meeting, 22 Jan 2007, Manila, PH
• Mobile VClass
  • Real-Time Classroom on TEIN2 from remote Thai-Khmere border to School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) @ Uni. of London
• DUMBONET
  • Project demo on 1 December 2006, Phuket, TH

intERLab will invite APNG Camp to take part in DUMBONet next year.

Near future events are:

• inCoB2007
  • VClass for co-ordinating real-time remote conferences in 3 sites: HKUST, HK Science Park and Vietnam National Uni (Hanoi)
  • DVTS over APAN and TEIN2
  • 27-31 Aug, 2007
• SIGCOMM by WIDE/SOI ASIA
  • 26-31 Aug, 2007
  • DVTS over TEIN2 (IPv6 Multicast)
• MOZILLA 24
  • 15-16 Sept, 2007
  • DVTS over TEIN2 (IPv6 Multicast)
  • Open Source Panel Discussion on 15 Sept: France, Keio Uni. (Japan) and AIT(Thailand)

In the future, intERLab is planning to propose to TEIN2 community to run the CanalAVIST which is the project adopted by ASEAN Virtual Institute of Science and Technology of ASEAN. This CanalAVIST will coordinate broadcasting real-time events over TEIN2.

Finally, the presenter invited collaborations from AP community in terms of research, training, education and business development.

Questions and Discussions:
- No questions and discussions held.

1. Live-E! Project by Mr. Tommy Matsumoto

Live-E! Project is a kind of sensor networks which use either IPv4 or IPv6 and micro mesh networks to gather environmental data. This project started in year 2005 and is a community of those who are interested in sharing sensor data. Sensors are an essential tool for many activities: i.e., agricultures, provisions for natural disasters, facility management, statistical analysis, and educational tools for schools. Many organizations have their own sensor system for their activity. If these data were easily exchanged on a standard platform, their data would contribute to other applications and they could also take advantage of third-party application software for their activity. A goal of the project is the establishment of such a platform. Please refer to http://www.live-e.org  for detail.

 

2. The future direction of APNG by Mr. Tommy Matsumoto and Mr. Sumith Gamage

Most of AP related organizations are not attending APNG Annual General Meeting (AGM) but they gather at AP* Retreat meeting. It is assumed that APNG’s initiatives are transferred to AP* Retreat. The functions of APNG and AP* Retreat were similar in the first place. AP* Retreat is a venue to gather representatives of AP Internet related organizations and update the status of each organizations and find ways of collaboration between organizations. APNG had spawned off a number of Asia Pacific organizations including Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA), Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD) and Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT), almost one organization per year in the 90s.

The first APNG Camp was started at AIT in 2002 but the initial idea was started earlier. Tommy had proposed to change the formation of APNG (Asia Pacific Networking Group) to APNG (Asia Pacific Next Generation which includes Internet History Museum and other camp and working group activities) to avoid name confusion. It was discussed before but not yet formalized. Prof. Chon would like to see APNG as Asia Pacific Next Generation Leaders Development. The camp is a good place to discuss about today’s Internet development and a bottom-up approach to raise voices and concerns. APNG Internet History Museum activity has slowed down the progress because there was on Secretariat for APNG before. The Chair had to take all responsibilities including server hosting. Now, APNG has a very dedicated Secretariat hosted by intERLab, AIT in Thailand.

APNG Chair will be transferred to Next Generation leaders. Still, fund raising issue is an important factor to think of which will be difficult for next generation leaders without support of senior leaders. Prof. Chon advised to have the Co-chairs approach for running APNG activities wherein Juniors can take charge of operations and Seniors for financial and sponsorship issues.

 

3. Secretariat report by Ms. Wit Hmone Tin Latt

After the AP* Retreat Bali, APIA made the Annual Support, amount totalled USD 5,000,  to the Secretariat for operation including two times travels and website maintenance. It is very much thankful to APIA board members and APIA secretariat.

The new website for AP* Retreat is online now. All comments or suggestions are welcome. Please contact sec@apstar.org.

The Secretariat presented the report on today’s meeting expenses. At first, it was short to cover from contribution collected from the delegates but extra contributions made by Mr. Hiro Hotta and Prof. Toru Takahashi covered the short. Special thanks to Mr. Hiro Hotta and Prof. Toru Takahashi.

APIA had proposed to have AP* Retreat in Taipei in conjunction with APRICOT 2008. Proposed date was 24th November at Howard Plaza Hotel.

 

4. The future of AP* Retreat led by Mr. Izumi Aizu

The annual contribution received from APIA would cover 50% of total Secretariat operating costs. intERLab has a pool of Secretariat and 50% of operating costs is for part-time staff who work for AP* Retreat Secretariat and website maintenance. Need more funding to make AP* Retreat Secretariat running smoothly.

The meeting expenses will be totally varied depending on the meeting venue, location/economy and number of delegates attended which are variables.

Prof. Chon advised the Co-chairs to work hard on having more delegates to AP* Retreats every year and the agenda which needs to be more attractive. The long-term perspective of AP* Retreat should be focused from now on. Co-location venue, either APAN or APRICOT, should provide at least meeting room.

Prof. Toru would like to see APIA/APRICOT supports APNG and AP* Retreat more in the future as a whole and partly contributions from some AP Internet Organizations.

Prof. Kanchana proposed to have a compulsory membership for AP* Retreat for making organizations more committed and dedicated and hoping to have stable participation from organizations and stable financial operation. The fees and membership categories implementations are yet to be proposed. Prof. Chon commented to have sponsorship organizations rather than membership.

Mr. Hiro added that AP* Retreat meetings would act as a hybrid: Morning session for members sharing information among AP organizations and Afternoon for open sessions to attract more attendance.

Mr. Izumi agreed to prepare a one-page summary and Prof. Kanchana would take care of implementation part of membership. Membership per organization is expected to be USD 200. Sponsorship amounts could range from 5,000 USD to 200 USD.

 

5. Any other business and Future Meetings

As APIA proposed, it is agreed to have next AP* Retreat will be held on 24th November in Taipei, Taiwan in conjunction with APRICOT 2008.

The Co-chairs for next AP* Retreat is Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut and Mr. Ching Chiao.


6. Internet Museum by Prof. Myongkoo Kang

The digital production of Korea History Museum was presented. There are four separate projects and 15 themes under these projects are developed together with different structures. The chronology consists of three components: Infrastructure, Services and Policy. The important documents on Korea’s Internet are collected in the Data Plaza and the file formats will be in word, pdf and image files. 12 experts participated in the development of framework. After the project is completed, Ministry of Communications, Korea would like to develop Internet Museum from Government perspectives not from History perspectives. There were some controversial issues.

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