1. SANOG / APAN-SA South Asia Network Operators Group APAN South Asia

2. South Asia Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Maldives adjacent countries

3. SANOG Network Operators in South Asia commercial First meeting in Katmandu, Nepal in January 03 organised by Gaurab Upadhya decided to set up group

4. SANOG Web site set up http://www.sanog.org/ Mailing list set up sanog-request@sanog.org

5. APAN-SA To promote co-operation between Academic and Research Networks in South Asia currently almost nonetworking interaction among these countries Organisational meeting during APAN in Fukuoka Jan 2003 representatives from PK, BD, LK Decided to meet in Colombo in 2003

6. Next Meeting Scheduled for Colombo, Sri Lanka in July 2003 tentatively 20-26 July Parallel SANOG and APAN meetings 1-day 2 days of tutorials 3-5 day workshops

7. Tentative Shedule Saturday, 19 th July setting up and inauguration Sunday 20 – Thurs 24: workshops IP Routing – Phillip Smith Systems and Security - LK

8. Tentative Agenda (cont.) Thursday 24 – Fri 25: Tutorials Advances in Routing – Phillip Bandwidth Management – Joshi DNS - ? Security – LK Saturday 26 SANOG meeting APAN-SA meeting

9. Assistance Required Tutorial presenters on a volunteer basis Funding for foreign participants (especially PK, BD, NP) academic government commercial