APTLD Update in AP* APTLD Secretariat Dr. Vincent (Wen-sung) Chen
What APTLD is doing? We discuss Domain Name related issues from AP region point of view, share and work together with ccTLD managers and Internet users.
History Ad hoc Meetings on DNS in Kuala Lumpur during INET’ BoF on TLD in Manila during APRICOT’ Inaugural AP(cc)TLD Meetings in Geneva during INET’ Second APTLD Meeting in Singapore during AP-IFWP Third APTLD Meeting in Singapore Fourth APTLD Meeting in San Jose Ad hoc APTLD Meeting in the Los Angeles Fifth APTLD Meeting in Seoul during APRICOT’ Sixth APTLD Meeting in Yokohama during ICANN APTLD Board Meeting in Bangkok Seventh APTLD Meeting in Los Angeles during ICANN Eighth APTLD Meeting in Kuala Lumpur during APRICOT’ APTLD ICANN-ccTLD Contract WS in Melbourne during ICANN
Structure Board Committees Working Groups Board/ Member Meeting Secretariat
Board Members Hualin Qian/CNChair Peter Dengate-Thrush/NZ Senior VC Bill Semich/NU VC (Treasurer) Shuichi Tashiro/JP VC (Membership) Kwan Ho Song/KR Wen-Sung Chen/TW Kanchana Kanchanasut/TH Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah/MY
Committees Three Committees: Finance Committee : Peter Dengate Thrush Legal & Regulatory Committee: Bill Semich Membership: Shuich Tasiro
Working Groups 1. ccDRP: Hung Xue 2. Outreach and Awareness: B.K Kim 3. Translation: Albert Wang 4. Multilingual DNS & Liaison: Y.J Park 5. ICANN Relation: Peter Dengate Thrush
WGs Mailing List
Asia-Pacific Region 243 ccTLDs around the world. About half of them are in AP region. A Region with variety: Asia, Middle East, South Asia, Pacific Islands…etc.
Secretariat TWNIC is selected as secretariat for Director: Dr. Wen-sung Chen Administrative Support and Service: Fast and Best
Membership Current Ordinary/ Voting Members:.CN,.HK,.JP,.KR,.MY,.NU,.NZ,.SG,.TH,.TJ,.TP,.TW,.VN Associate Members : Internet Governance Consultants Limited Others
In Year Select new permanent secretariat 2.Transfer website and bank account to new secretariat 3.Board/ Member Meetings in Japan, Bangkok, L.A. 4.A letter to ICANN CEO 5.Forge 5 WGs
In Year Incorporated APTLD 2.Outreach and Awareness 3.Work with other Regional NICs 4.Direct dialogue with ICANN--- APTLD-ICANN meeting in Hawaii 5. ICANN Contract WS in Melbourne
Issue: ICANN Relation Who should we talk to from ICANN? Direct dialogue to ICANN Quick response from ICANN Regular and continue meetings with ICANN ICANN funding
Issue: ICANN & ccTLD Contract Three-party agreements GAC point of view.CA case.JP case Who is the next?
Issue: ccSO Sponsor to ICANN DNSO & ccTLD managers A new supporting organization? Work with ccTLD, CENTR
Issue: IDN Most of Internet users in AP region are not native English speakers IDN: Pressure or needs? I-DNS testbed: testing or business? IETF Standard CDNC and other IDN study organiztions GAC IDN WG ICANN Survey
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