Asia Pacific Joint Secretariat, Ltd. 29 August 2002 Shanghai, CHINA Byung-Kyu Kim

Incorporation  Urgent Need - Legal status of ccTLD Secretariat - Need a bank account for ccTLD Secretariat  Use a Law-firm in Seoul - Legally incorporated in British Virgin Island on 31 May 2002 ( a branch in Seoul) - Signed by BK and Pensri - Still need more documents for a bank account in British Virgin Island - Cost will be about $10,000

Goals and Objectives  Goal: Promotion of efficient secretariat administration of the Internet Organizations in Asia-Pacific through resource sharing and support  Objectives: - Information sharing - Sharing of other resources - Support for new organizations - Coordination of secretariat activities - Administration of AP* Retreat

Current Activities  Bangkok Office - AP* Retreat (Events & Secretariat) - apstar.org homepage (Calendar and other information) - Administration of Asia-Pacific Joint Sec Membership - mirror site of apsec.org (th.apsec.org) - co-Executive Director: Pensri Arunwatanamongkol  Seoul Office - ccTLD Secretariat - AP Outreach - mirror site of apsec.org (kr.apsec.org) - co-Executive Director: BK Kim  We may consider more office(e.g. APNG..etc) later.

Scope of Services  Research and strategic overview  IP numbers  Domain Names  Policy legal  Trade and industry  Training and education in operations  Advanced networks and advanced networking technologies  User membership  Specific areas: Bio-infomatics etc.

Membership  Members: - voting organizational members: Internet organizations recognized by AP* from any of the countries and economies primarily from Asia-Pacific region. - non-voting organizational members - non-voting individual members  All members may participate to the Asia Pacific Joint Secretariat Board.

Structure  Organization Members (tentative) APNG, APAN, APNIC, APTLD, APIA, INFITT, APBioNet, APDIP  Board Members (Interim) Toru Takahashi(IAJapan), Paul Wilson(APNIC), Xing Li(APNG), YJ Park(APAN), Hirofumi Hotta(JPRS), Subramaniam D(INFITT)  Executive Directors: BK Kim and Pensri  Staffs: Abhisak Chulya (ccTLD sec), SY Yoo (ccTLD sec), and Faraah (AP* Retreat sec)

Current figure of the Structure Members Boards | Executive Director(s) (Provide Legal Status for Staffs, if needed) ccTLD Sec Exec Director Deputy Exec Dir Admin Staff ($100K-$120K)/year AP Outreach Sec Admin Staff ($10K-$20K)/year AP* Retreat Sec Exec Director Admin Staff ($20K-$40K)/year

Funding Model  Urgent Needed - Need a permanent(stable) staff or a coordinator with good English and technical skills, and he/she should work for AP Joint Sec. (He/she could work for partly AP Outreach, ccTLD sec, or AP* Retreat sec) - A permanent staff salary: $20,000/year - Incorporation Fee: about $10,000  Funding Model for FY2002: Contribution  Funding Model for FY2003: Membership Fee

Schedules (moving slowly)  Sep-Oct 2002: - Incorporation process will be finished - Bylaws, Membership - Collecting Membership Fee - APNG Secretariat will join (?) - Bidding APRICOT Secretariat (?)  Nov-Dec 2002: - voting for new Boards  Feb 2003 (during APRICOT2003): - AP Joint Sec Member/Board Meeting

Activities (ccTLD Secretariat)  FY2001(May 2001 – May 2002) - 4 ccTLD Meetings Stockholm: Jun 2001, Montevideo: Sep 2001 Marina del Rey: Nov 2001, Accra: Mar Monthly AdCom teleconf - Incomes: $60,872 by 33 ccTLDs, $54,037 by sponsors, $9,840 in donation, etc. (TOTAL INCOMES: $125,546) - Expenses: $39,056 for staff salary, $53,237 for meeting expenses, etc. (TOTAL EXPENSES: $100,730)  FY2002(May 2002 – May 2003) - Bucharest: Jun Shanghai: Oct 2002 (3 days meeting + 2 days Workshop) - Monthly AdCom teleconf (AdCom+ERC Joint teleconf)

Activities (AP Outreach) FY2002(Jan 2002 – Dec 2002)  March 2002, APRICOT in Bangkok, Thailand (1) Asia Pacific Outreach BoF (jointly with AP at Large) (2) Asia Pacific Outreach BoF (jointly with APTLD) - the first ccTLD Name Server Training  April 2002, Mumbai, Bangalore, India (1) AP Outreach seminar with APNIC in Mumbai,India (2) AP Outreach seminar with APNIC in Bangalore,India  September 2002, Vietnam with APNIC and ccTLD  September 2002, Bangladesh with ccTLD  October 2002, Shanghai – ccTLD Name Server Workshop  Income for FY2002: $10,000 from APNIC