1. APTLD Outreach 2001 Shanghai
APTLD Secretariat
Vincent W.S. Chen

2. 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.

3. Key Terms TLD: Top Level Domain gTLD: Generic Top Level Domain
.com .net .org .mil .edu .gov . Int
.info .biz .name .pro .Museum .coop .aero
………………
ccTLD: Country code Top Level Domain Name
.cn .tw .jp .kr .us
.tv .to .cc ………………..
APTLD: ccTLDs in the AP region

4. Asia MAP APNIC’s Definition: AP Region Comprising 62 economies In
Asia and
Oceania
(ISO-3166)
Source:

5. Oceania MAP
Source:

6. Asia-Pacific Region 243 ccTLDs around the world.
About one third of them are in AP region.
A Region with variety: Asia, Middle East, South Asia, Pacific Islands…etc.

8. History 1997.6 Ad hoc Meetings on DNS in Kuala Lumpur during INET’97
BoF on TLD in Manila during APRICOT’98
Inaugural AP(cc)TLD Meetings in Geneva during INET’98
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’2000
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’2001
APTLD ICANN-ccTLD Contract WS in Melbourne during ICANN

9. Structure Board Committees Working Groups Board Meeting Member Meeting
Secretariat

10. Board Members Hualin Qian/CN Chair Peter Dengate-Thrush/NZ Senior VC
Bill Semich/NU VC (Treasurer)
Shuichi Tashiro/JP VC (Membership)
Kwan Ho Song/KR
Vincent W.S. Chen/TW
Kanchana Kanchanasut/TH
Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah/MY

11. Committees Three Committees: Finance Committee : Peter Dengate Thrush
Legal & Regulatory Committee: Bill Semich
Membership: Shuich Tasiro

12. Working Groups 1. ccDRP: Hong 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

13. WGs Mailing List Mdn@aptld.org Icann@aptld.org Trans@aptld.org

14. Secretariat TWNIC is selected as secretariat for 2000.10-2002.10
Administrative Support and Service: Fast and Best

15. Type of membership applied for：(US$)
□ Ordinary Membership ( CCTLD and Voting Member )
Self-Selected Fee band：
□ Vary Large ($20,000) □ Large ($10,000) □ Medium Large ($5,000)
□ Medium ($2,000) □ Medium Small($1,000) □ Small ($500)
□ Vary Small ($100)
□ Associate Corporate Membership ( non-voting member )
□ Associate Individual Member ( non-voting member )
□ $ □ $xxxx

16. Membership Current Ordinary/ Voting Members: Associate Members: Others
13: .CN, .HK, .JP, .KR, .MY, .NU,
.NZ, .SG, .TH, .TJ, .TP, .TW, .VN
Associate Members:
1: Internet Governance Consultants Limited
Others
TJ: Tajikistan is a small country in the Former Soviet Union.
Nestled in-between Afghanistan and China.
TP: East Timor

17. In Year 2000 Select new permanent secretariat
Transfer website and bank account to new secretariat
Board/ Member Meetings in Japan, Bangkok, L.A.
A letter to ICANN CEO
Forge 5 WGs

18. In Year 2001 Incorporated APTLD Outreach and Awareness
Work with other Regional NICs
Direct dialogue with ICANN---
APTLD-ICANN meeting in Hawaii
5. ICANN Contract WS in Melbourne

19. 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

20. Issue: ICANN & ccTLD Contract
Three-party and Bilateral agreements
GAC point of view
.CA case
.JP case
Who is the next?

21. Trilateral/Bilateral Relationship
Government
Local Internet Communities
Interest
ICANN
ccTLD
Manager
Formal Agreement
DNS root server services
Internet stability
Internet technical/management Policy Coordination
Best Practices
Contribution to ICANN

22. Issue: ccSO Sponsor to ICANN DNSO & ccTLD managers
A new supporting organization?
Work with ccTLD, CENTR/APTLD?

23. 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 (IETF IDN WG)
CDNC and other IDN study organiztions
GAC IDN WG
ICANN Survey

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