1. APOPS Asia Pacific OPerationS forum AP* Retreat APRICOT 2003 Taipei, February 2003

2. Purpose Open forum for discussing operational issues of regional significance Open forum for sharing operational information from each country in Asia Participants include ISP network engineers and network operators

3. History Intended as Asia Pacific equivalent of North American NANOG, European EOF, and African AfNOG Existed for many years as a mailing list Now also occupies a slot in the 6 monthly APNIC meeting

4. Previous Meetings – 2002 APNIC 14 – Kitakyushu Joint two day forum with APIA Internet Security, IPv6, Wireless, IXPs APRICOT 2002 – Bangkok ISP Experiences in Nepal IS-IS in Qwest’s backbone Routing Table Update

5. Previous Meetings – 2001 APNIC 12 – Taipei JANOG Australian Peering SOX, JPNAP & IXP discussion Resulted in creation of APNIC IX SIG APRICOT 2001 – Kuala Lumpur BOF Session discussed whether more than just a mailing list was required for APOPS

6. Details Chairs: Philip Smith – Cisco Systemspfs@cisco.compfs@cisco.com Hideo Ishii – Asia Global Crossinghishii@glblx.ad.jphishii@glblx.ad.jp Website: http://www.apops.net Mailing List: Subscribe: http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apops or Send mail to apops-request@apops.net with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject lineapops-request@apops.net

7. Future Plans Open to suggestions… Carry on with operations group reports at future APNIC meeting & APRICOT conferences? Forum for country or regional ISP operators to meet, report, discuss? ??