1. APAN Annual Report : 2003 2003. 12 APAN Secretariat As of 2004.1.26

2. Table of Contents 1.Introduction 2.APAN Status 3.Progress Report in 2003 Appendix : Plan for 2004 Reference

3. 1. Introduction APAN's Mission: - to coordinate and promote R&D activities on networking including technology, applications and services. - to provide an advanced networking environment for research and education communities in the Asia-Pacific region. In order to carry the APAN's mission, APAN will put effort on - collaboration with regional and domestic organizations in Asia-Pacific. - collaboration with other regions (Africa, Americas, and Europe) to provide global advanced network environment and to facilitate research and education activities. - expansion of APAN user communities to include various research disciplines, and non-research communities.

4. 2. APAN Status 2.1 Organization APAN Member Committee Committees Secretariat Technology Regional Net Natural Resource APAN Meetings IPv6 Task Force NOC http://apan.net/home/aboutapan/organization.htm

5. 2.2 Members Primary Member APAN-AU Consortiumhttp://www.au.apan.net APAN-CN Consortiumhttp://www.cn.apan.net HARNET(HK) *http://www.jucc.edu.hk/jucc/harnet.html APAN-JP Consortium http://www.jp.apan.net ANF(KR) http://www.anf.ne.kr APAN-MY Consortium http://www.my.apan.net SingAREN(SG) http://www.singaren.net.sg/start.php APAN-TW Consortium http://www.sinica.edu.tw ASTI(PH) * http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph BAERIN(BD) **http://www.baerin.net LEARN(LK)*http://www.ac.lk APAN-TH Consortium*http://www.th.apan.net Associate Member TransPAC/Indiana University http://www.transpac.org * : joined in 2003 ** : joined in 2004

6. 2.2 Members (cont.) Affiliate Member ACFA *http://www.acfa-forum.net/acfa/ APBioNet * http://www.apbionet.org APNG *http://www.apng.org APRTC * http://www.aprtc.org APRU http://apru.nus.edu.sg CIGRA http://www.cigra.org IDRC * http://www.idrc.org.sg Pacific Wavehttp://pacificwave.net PRAGMA *http://www.pragma-grid.net Liaison Member CANARIE http://www.canarie.ca DANTEhttp://www.dante.net TERENAhttp://www.terena.nl Internet 2http://www.internet2.edu Industry Member Cisco *http://www.cisco.com Juniper *http://www.juniper.net * : joined in 2003

7. 2.3 Link Information Countries NetworkBandwidth(Mbps)AvailabilityAUP/Remark AU-US AARNet340Now R&E, CN-HK CERNET/HARNET2Now R&E CN-JP CERNET10Now R&E CN-JP CERNET45Now Native IPv6 CN-UK CERNET45Now R&E CN-US CERNET10Now Research CN-US CERNET200Now R&E HK-US HARNET45Now R&E HK-TW HARNET/TANET10Now R&E JP-HK APII45Now R&E JP-ID AI3(ITB)2/1.5Now R&E JP-KR APII2GbpsNow Research (APII) JP-MY AI3(USM)1.5/0.5Now R&E JP-PH AI3(ASTI)1.5/0.5Now R&E JP-PH MAFFIN2Now Research JP-SG AI3(SICU)1.5/0.5Now R&E JP-TH AI3(AIT)1.5/0.5Now R&E JP-TH SINET (ThaiSarn)2Now R&E JP-US TransPac5 GbpsNow R&E, JP-VN AI3(IOIT)1.5/0.5Now R&E KR-CN APII45~155? R&E KR-FR KOREN/RENATER34Now Research (TEIN) KR-SG APII(KOREN)8Now R&E KR-US KOREN/KREONet2155Now R&E As of 2003.12.26

8. 2.3 Link Information (cont.) CountriesNetworkBandwidth(Mbps)AvailabilityAUP/Remark LK-JPLEARN 3Now R&E MY-THTEMAN/ThaiSarn 8~45 R&E SG-USSingaREN 90Now R&E TH-USUninet 155Now R&E TW-HKASNET/TANET2 155Now R&E TW-JPASNET/TANET2 155Now R&E TW-USASNET/TANET2 622Now R&E TW-UKASNET/TANET2 155Now R&E, through US Non APAN Links CountriesNetworkBandwidth(Mbps)AvailabilityAUP IN-US/UKERNET 16Now R&E JP-(US)-EUSINET 2.5Gbps +155Now R&E / No Transit JP-USSINET 5 GbpsNow R&E / No Transit Proposed Link in APAN CN-HKCSTNET (Gloriad) 155Now R&E, 2.5Gbps in 2004 CN-US CSTNET (Gloriad) 55Now Research CN-RU-USGloriad10 Gbps2004 R&E (through Amsterdam) JP-HKAPII 45Now R&E, (2.5Gbps in 2004Q2) JP-LKAI3(ICT) 1.5/0.5(plan) R&E JP-SG 1Gbps(plan) R&E JP-USTransPac 5 GbpsNow R&E, (20Gbps in 2004) KR-CNAPII 45~1552004Q1 R&E MY-THTEMAN/ThaiSarn 8~45(plan) R&E US-JPIEEAF 10.6Gbps2003 Q4 R&E IN-CHLHC1552004 Research (HEP) 2003.12.26

9. 3. Progress Report in 2003 3.1 Committees Closed Committees (in 2003.8) IEEAF Committee : merged to Backbone Committee Retreat Committee New Committees (in 2003.8) Event CommitteeChair: Akira Mizushima/NARO Training Committee (pending)Co-chairs: Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT John Barlow /AARNET 5 Ad hoc Committees (shown below) Current Committees Backbone Committee Chair: Daeyoung Kim/CNU (elected in 16th Meetings) Event Committee Chair: Akira Mizushima/NARO Fellowship Program Committee Chair: An Jie/CERNET (elected in 16th Meetings) Resource Allocation Committee Chair: Kimihiko. Saito/JST Training Committee (pending) Co-chairs: Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT Ad hoc Committees eScience Committee Chair: Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC Grid Activities Committees Co-chairs: Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC Kento Aida/TITECH Election Committee Chair: George McLaughlin/AARNET Bylaws Committee Chair: Lowrence Wong/SingAREN Structure Committee Chair: Shigeki Goto/Waseda U. John Barlow /AARNET

10. 3.2 Secretariat The staff lineup of APAN Secretariat is as follows: Bok-Gyu JooDeputy Director Eunjin Seo Administrative Manager Jane Zhu Administrative Staff Chin Hooi Technical Staff An JieAdministrative Manager (in Beijing Branch) Chunyan WangAdministrative Staff (in Beijing Branch) The detail contact information of APAN Central Secretariat and APAN Member Secretariats was currently listed at http://apan.net/org/sec.htm

11. 3.3 APAN Meetings 15th APAN Meetings APAN 2003 Fukuoka Meetings were held at SRP Center in Fukuoka, Japan, cooperated with the 3rd PRAGMA Workshop during 2003.1.20 - 1.25. No. of Participants : 264 Reference : http://apan.net/meetings/fukuoka03/index.htm 16th APAN Meetings The 16th APAN Meetings were held in conjunction with Advanced Network Conference at Busan Marriott Hotel in Busan, Korea during 2003.8.24 - 2003.8.29. No. of Participants : 325 Reference : http://apan.net/meetings/busan2003/

12. 3.3 APAN Meetings (cont.) DateNamePlace 2003.1.20~2515th APAN MeetingsFukuoka, Japan 2003.4.9~11APAN Related Meetings Arlington, USA (during I2) 2003.6.21APAN Retreat Meeting Beijing, China 2003.7.24~26APAN South Asia Net MeetingColombo, Sri Lanka 2003.8.24~2916th APAN MeetingsBusan, Korea 2003.9.25~26China-Japan Link MeetingHong Kong 2003.10.23APAN Chairs MeetingIndianapolis, USA (during I2) 2003.10.24~25Japan-Korea MeetingSapporo, Japan 2003.10.28~31China-Korea MeetingBeijing, China 2003.12.5~6APAN IPv6 Task Force Kick-off MeetingBeijing, China 2003.12.18~19APAN Related Meetings Bangkok, Thailand

13. 3.4 IPv6 Task Force Goal : 10% of R&E Network Traffic as Task Force’s Goal Chairs : Jianping Wu / Hiroshi Esaki / Kishik Park Subgroups IPv6 Engineering & Technology Group (IPv6 WG) Yan Ma / Hiroshi Esaki / Seungyun Lee Operation Group (NOC) Li Xing / Yoshinori Kitatsuji / Jaehwa Lee Application Group Nan Kai / Hiroshi Esaki / Yo-Jung Kim Meetings 2003.8 APAN Meetings, Busan Formation of IPv6 Task Force 2003.10 Global Joint Gigabit IPv6 Meeting, Indianapolis APAN, Internet2, CANARIE and DANET 2003.12.5~6 APAN IPv6 Kickoff Meeting, Beijing (2004.1.14 2 nd Global Joint Gigabit IPv6 Meeting, Brassels) http://apan.net/org/ipv6.htm

14. 3.5 Natural Resource Closed Working Group : BioInformatics WG ( closed in 2003.4) New Working Group : Earth System WG (proposed in 2003.8) Current Status Director: Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC Deputy Directors: Shinichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD Pitsuth Paiboonrat/NECTEC Byong-Lyol Lee/KMA Secretary General : Shuhaimi Napis/UPM Agriculture WG Chair: Pitsuth Paiboonrat/NECTEC Co-chairs: Ronnie S. Natawidjaja/UNPAD Jeong-Jae Lee/ Seoul National U Earth Observation & Disaster Monitoring WG Co-chairs: Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC Hiromichi FUKUI/Keio U Earth System WG (pending) Co-chairs: Jai-Ho Oh/PKNU Yihui Ding/NCC/CHINA http://apan.net/org/nr.htm

15. 3.6 NOC (Network Operations Center) Director : Kazunori Konishi/KDDI Deputy director : John Barlow/AARNET Jaehwa Lee/Korea Telecom Secretariat: Yoshinori Kitasuji/KDDI The main activities were classified as follows: (1) Coordinate network operation activities - 24 x 7 basic operation - Common tools for the basic operation - Information sharing for the operation - Promotion of the collaborations (2) Joint works between researchers and NOC folks for advanced services and experiments - Experiments on advanced technologies - Design of the networks with advanced features - Performance tuning with advanced operation & measurement tools - Evaluation of experiments & demos http://apan.net/org/noc.htm

16. 3.7 Regional Net North Asia Net Group (formed in 2003.8) Co-chairs: Shigeki Goto/Waseda U. Daeyoung Kim/CNU Jianping Wu/CERNET North Asia Net Cluster (formed in 2003.1) Chair: Kazunori. Konishi/KDDI JP-KR Group (G-H/H-G) Co-chairs: Araki / YJ Park South East Asia Net Group not formed yet South East Asia Cluster (formed in 2003.1) Co-chairs: Sureswaran Ramadass/USM Royol Chitradan/NECTEC Lowrence Wong/SingAREN South Asia Net Group (formed in 2003.7) Chair: Gihan Dias/LEARN Oceania Net Group (formed in 2003.8) Chair: George McLaughlin/AARNET http://apan.net/org/regional.htm

17. 3.8 Technology Application Technology Area Director: Markus Buchhorn/ANU (Interim) Education WG Chair: An Jie/CERNET (Interim) Co-chair: HocksoonTan/TP (Interim) Grid WG Chair: Kento Aida/TITECH Co-chair: Sissades Tongsima /NECTEC P2P WG Chair: Hyunchol Kim/KAIST Security BoF Chair: Rahmat Budiarto/USM h323-sip (mailing list) Chair: Markus Buchhorn/ANU http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

18. Network Technology Area Director: Sureswaran Ramadass/USM IPv6 WG Chair: Yan Ma/BUPT Measurement WG Chair: Yasuichi Kitamura/CRL Multimedia WG Chair: Omar A. Abouabdalla/USM (Satellite WG: interim) Co-chairs: Lim Seow San/TP Loh Yeow Meng/ TP QoS WG was closed in 2003.8. 3.8 Technology (cont.) http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

19. Network Research Group Interim Network Research Workshop Committee organized 1st Network Research Workshop during the 16th APAN Meetings. 31 papers were accepted and published in the proceedings. Network Research Group was officially formed in 16th APAN Meetings. Director: Xing Li/CERNET 3.8 Technology (cont.) http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

20. 3.9 Financial Report A.Revenue (US$) Balance from 2002.9 3,475 Membership 30,850 Other Contribution 51,950 B.Expenditure (US$) Salary 36,500 Travel Expenses 9,080 Office Expenses 6,810 Fellowship 11,100 Incorporate Charge 5,420 Equipment 1,200 Busan Meeting Support 2,000 Miscellaneous 1,451 C. Balance (US$) 12,984 (2002.10~2003.9)

21. Appendix : Plan for 2004 A.1 APAN Lambda Networking Europe/Russia China Hong Kong Korea Japan Taiwan USA 10Gbps 2.5Gbps 5Gbps 2.5Gbps 40Gbps 10Gbps 2002.12 2003.12 2004.12

22. A.2 Incorporation of APAN Formalize the principles regarding : Organization Structure Governing Body Membership Mode of Operation Basis of Membership Fee Number of Votes per Primary Member

23. A.3 Budget (2003.10-2004.9) A. REVENUE Balance from 2003. 9.30 12,982 Membership Contribution APAN-AU 5,000 BAERIN 1,000 APAN-CN APAN-JP 20,000 APAN-MY 2,000 SingAREN 2,000 ANF 7,000+13,000 APAN-TH 2,000 APAN-TW 5,000 LEARN 1,000 HARNET APAN-PH 1,000 Transpac 1,000 Cisco 2,000 Juniper 2,000 Other contribution ANF's contribution 12,000 NCHC for APAN meetings 1,000 ANF for fellowship 1,000 APAN-AU for fellowship 1,000 APAN-JP for fellowship 3,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 94,982 (unit : USD) B. Expected Expenditure (2003.10~2004.6) Salary 48,000 Travel Expenses 13,000 Office expenses 9,000 Publication 5,000 Fellowship 20,000 Miscellaneous 8,000 Reserve 12,982 ----------------------------------------- Total 115,982 C. Balance : (-) 21,000 * Figure of budget for TRANSITION is not available.

24. Reference APANhttp://apan.net