Participants:
Dr. Kanchana Kanschansut, Prof. Toru Takahshi, Prof. Xing Li, Prof.
Kilnam Chon, ByungKyu Kim, Dr. Chen Wen Sung, Hirofumi Hotta, Prof.
Shigeki Goto, Jeongjun Seo, Ms.YJ Park, Paul Wilson, Seung-Yeon Yoo,
Suguru Yamaguchi, Shahid Akhtar, Dr.Abhisak Chulya, Prof. YJ Park,
Ranie lee, Jeongjun Seo, Ms.Pipot ABDON, Pensri A, Natchana .P, Faraah
Zubair
The
meeting discussed following topics:
The meeting chair Prof. Toru Takahashi expressed his thanks to all
meeting participants. He asked the participants to review the agenda.
After discussion participants agreed on basic meeting agenda.
AP* organization’s
Reports
All AP* members presented their organization reports.
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APAN meeting
Next APAN meeting will be held 23-25 January in Phuket. Thailand.
Next APRICOT
The next APRICOT will be held during 3-7 March 2002 Bangkok. Thailand.
Next Generation
of AP*
APNG is going to arrange AP Next
Generation camp on 28 Feb - 1 March 2002 at AIT, Bangkok, Thailand.
The motive is to bring new
generation in main stream of Internet activities. Next generation
can bring new ideas and new strategies for Internet development.
After a two-day camp, new generation could formalize the APNG charter.
Next generation would present
country reports and Internet related issues in their country and
they can also suggest the solution for these issues. Each organization
will try to send 3 or more participants to attend this camp.
All seniors will come to
attend and would share their experiences and new information. It
will be kind of a General Assembly.
The agenda will be announced
soon.
Discussion
on Joint Secretariat.
Need to set up new web
site for Joint sec information dissemination.
We can print one hard
copy brochure to send all organization.
Need to create new mailing
list.
Need to prepare Board
and membership structure.
Before next AP* Retreat
meeting, Joint Secretariat will prepare the bylaws.
AP Joint sec will collect
the membership fee which could be used by AP* Retreat sec to
support secretariat activities.
Right now we have two
offices. Bangkok office manages AP* Retreat and Korea office
hosts AP Outreach and ccTLD Sec. We may consider more office
(e.g. APNG.etc) later.
Meeting will be arranged
twice a year.
We need to bring other
organizations as members of AP Joint sec. There are organizations
in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries which
are working on Internet related issues. We need to share information
with them. Many organizations they don’t know about this
group. If we publicize information about AP* joint secretariat,
Then we would be stronger group and we can get more strong roll
in all IT related issues.
IT NETWORK
TRAINING CENTER
We need IT Network
Training Center for Asia-Pacific. It is really difficult for AP
organizations to send their people to USA for training.
AIT is more convenient place
to reach from all AP regions. Also AIT has Regional Computer Center
which we can modify for Internet Engineering Training.
We have seed money from Prof.
Toru Takahashi. AIT will also contribute and also we got commitment
from NSRC for resource person and for training material.
We require help from all AP
organizations in kind of money, equipment, training material or
resource person. APDIP and ITU can also help for IT Center.
IT training Center will provide
the courses on Network engineering .We can develop some courses
on policy issues and on operational language. We need to develop
new models for training.
The duration of courses could
be ranged from one week to three months. It does depend on participants
and organization requirements. We need to try to make theses courses
more intensive for government officers.
ISOC also announced that their
training material is available for public so we requested them for
training material.
The board members for IT Training
Center are Paul Wilson, Shahid Akhtar, Prof.Xing Li . Suguru Yamaguchi
will be the Board Chairman and Prof. Toru Takashi will be the Board
advisor.
ICANN related
issues
Mr. Hotta presented brief
information on ICANN structure and process.
ICANN structure is quite ramified
so they are trying to revise it to make it more simple and understandable.
Few participants said that
ICANN doesn’t want to be listened to rest of the world. ICANN
attitude is quite aristocratic. But we don’t need to dishearten
due to their attitude.
We can’t simply deny
the importance of ICANN politically. Indeed we should prepare some
group presentation with the consultation of all AP organizations
to make sure our participation in ICANN activities
We have good opportunity for
next election phase. We need to work prior to prospective election
to make ensure AP participation in ICANN at all levels. This election
is also indicator for us to plan future planing. We need to emphasize
on in-distinctive election process from AP organization. Last time
we had 4 persons from Japan and 3 from Korea.
It could be quite parlous
for all of us to identify the issues but we have to publicize the
issues to others AP organization to get support .We need to prepare
some joint indenture for ICANN meeting. We need to prove ourselves
as Asia-Pacific.
The reality is AP means all
Asia-Pacific including as well as Middle East and South Asia. We
don’t have proper participation from AP in ICANN and then there
is Latin America and then Africa.
Prof. Goto said that we couldn’t
rebuke all those organization about their behavior in ICANN Meetings.
First we need to address the issues. We need to find how and how
much we can contribute in DNSO, ccSOs, ASOs, and in PSOs.
We need to prepare position
paper from AP group. Perhaps that position paper should be put in
to mailing list for large discussion.
We need to proceed at DNSO,
ANSO and on PSOs level. If we did not meet on specific issues, we
can’t be able get propitiate space in ICANN
ICANN - at-large membership study.
Mr. Chen Wen-Sung provided
information on this topic. According to his information this draft
is written by ICANN Legal secretariat. He said that right now ICANN
steering committee is assessing this study. Is this structure is
proper or whether they need to change this?
ICANN needs a balanced representation
of all interested and concerned groups .
ICANN needs user representation
and Internet user needs to be self-organized
The concept of membership
has to be further developed
Internet user supporting organization
(IUSO) could constitute the framework for active participation of
users in ICANN activities presentation.
Direct election by the Internet
user constituencies
Should the ICANN Board include
At-Large Directors?
If so, how many such At-Large
Directors should there be?
How should any such At-Large
Directors be selected?
If selection by an At-Large
membership is recommended, what processes and procedures should
be used to create that At-Large membership? What minimum criteria,
if any, should be required for membership?
If an At-Large membership
is to exist, what should its structure, role and functions be? How
should it be funded?
ISOC Chapter
coordination.
ISOC Taiwan chapter is already
established. TWNIC is working as ISOC local Chapter
At-large members promoting
activities
ISOC Thailand chapter is very
active in all means.
ISOC has fellowship program
for developing countries.
ISOC Japan is organizing three
activities per year.
We can work for ISOC Asia-Pacific.
All activities should be done under this umbrella.
Multilingual
TLD and related issues.
MINC is working on Multilingual
Internet names and supporting each language Group activities.
In July MINC organized one
workshop in Pakistan on Undu Internet Names system They are working
with AINC and next month ANIC is organizing a meeting in Cairo,
which represents Arabic language.
From Asia we need to work
on multilingual issues. cc TLD is working on translation issues.
Right now they are translating minutes, Bylaws, Delegation/Redelagation.
First we need to decide what we want to translate. We gave these
documents to concerned persons and then we do follow up. We don’t
give them deadline so they are quite free. Like cctld has one person
to handle translation issues.
INFITT also provides the English
to Tamil translation services. If any organization wants to translate
any document in Indian languages INFITT can help them
New gTLDs
including .asia
There
was discussion on new gTLDs and .asia. One participant raised
the issue that we could also apply for .asia as region like .EU,
but Prof. Kilnam informed the participant that we could not propose
that. We are not ready to establish it and also .org moved out
from verisign .EU -- they are European union and they share single
currency as well. And if you will try for it, it will take long
time more then five years as well as we need huge money like USD100,000.
Suppose we get it, then it will be big mess like .EU. Tamil can
try for new gTLD. They have big number of population in many countries.
Also China has better chance to operate as new gTLD. Korea also
applied for new gTLD.
Prof. kilnam also presented brief information on ccTLD and ISO
3166.
To create a new ccTLD physical locations if a request fulfils
the three criteria then chances are that the ISO will consider
the request. Concerning the legal status of a country or dependency.
A new entry is shown in the United Nations lists of country names.
These lists given in the UN Bulletin "Country Names"
and in the code list of the "Standard Country or Area Codes
for Statistical Use.
I. The area name for which the inclusion
in ISO 3166-1 is requested represents an area, which is physically
separated from its parent country. Dependent areas directly bordering
on the parent country cannot be included in ISO 3166-1.
II. An interchange requirement exists
between the area for which a code element is requested and other
physical locations. For the purposes of ISO 3166-1 the term interchange
requirement includes a stated and proven necessity to move physical
objects (e.g.goods) or non-physical objects (e.g. electronic messages)
from one physical location to another.
III. A request for the inclusion
of a country name (or the name of a dependent area) in ISO 3166-1
must originate from the national Government of the country or
from the national standards body of that country. The ISO 3166/MA
rejects any request, which is not accompanied by a written statement
from the national government explicitly agreeing to and supporting
the request.
Note: Fulfilling all three criteria does not automatically entail
that the new country name is added to ISO 3166-1. The ISO 3166/MA
will still discuss the request and vote on it. Only if the outcome
of the vote is positive, the new country name will be added to
ISO 3166-1.
Outreach
and Awareness
Participants
agreed that AP Outreach should be done under AP umbrella
Need to update presentation
material for Outreach activities.
APNIC has fund and they are already working with AP Outreach and
APTLD.
Is it possible that if MINC
and APRICOT could participate? As APRICOT is already involved in
training and outreach. APRICOT is able to make presentation about
its activities
APIA don’t have any funding
but they are interested to help outreach activities.
We can invite other organizations
and companies who may can get indirect benefit.
World Bank and UNDP are also
funding outreach projects.
APDIP is working on training and on outreach. We can find some ways
of collaboration. Also APDIP can guide us on funding issue.
We need to spread the outreach
program through all AP regions.
AP* Retreat
We should share and support
each other’s projects. We should find ways on how we could
help each other as an organization.
Need to bring other countries
in AP* group. Right now we don’t have participation from South
Asia and Pacific Island.
Need to set up new mailing
list for journal public.
We need to listen to new age. Meeting should be opened for new voices
and for new perspective. This group needs some development.
The next AP* Retreat meeting
will be held on 2nd march 2002 (tentatively) at AIT, Bangkok, Thailand
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