1. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) II 20-27 July, Colombo, Sri Lanka Gaurab Raj Upadhaya CEO/Tech Chair gaurab@lahai.com Nepal Internet Exchange

2. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG… As data networks has grown around the world, we are taking the initiative for a South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG). This is in line with established practices like NANOG in North America, RIPE NCC Meetings in Europe and APRICOT in Asia. The meeting will provide a regional forum to discuss operational issues and technologies closer home for data operators in the South Asian Region. (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka… + Mauritius, Myanmar?)

3. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea South Asia.. Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

4. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG I SANOG I held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 22-28 January, 2003 in conjunction with CAN IT Conference 2003. SANOG I included pre and post conference tutorials, conference and meeting. The agenda for the first meeting of SANOG was to establish the procedure for future meetings and gathering a consensus for such a group. There was consensus on continuing the effort and the next meeting was decided to be held in Sri Lanka. www.sanog.org/sanog1

5. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG II SANOG II held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20-27 July together with Networking South Asia and APAN South Asia meeting NetSA / SANOG II included 4 days workshops, two days tutorials and one day of conference and meeting. As an addition from the first meeting, NetSA/SANOG had full workshops in two tracks – Routing & Systems Organized by LEARN – the Lanka Academic Network More info and material downloads at www.netsa.org.lk

6. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG II Program –Workshops Cisco ISP/IXP Workshop System Management Workshop –Tutorials SANOG Track –IPv6, IX construction, DNS, Network Management, Security APAN Track –Next generation internet –Wireless Technologies –APNIC Helpdesk, DNS and LIR training

7. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG II Participants –50+ local participants –80+ International Participants –Fellowship to 50 people to participate. Partial travel and accommodation provided to Fellows. Sponsorship –LEARN – Lanka Academic Network –APNIC, LISPA – LK, CINTEC, Cisco –Lanka Com and other local companies –WorldBank infoDev Program for fellowships

8. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG II More participants from academic networks, but operators from all countries also present Increased participants from all regional countries Co-operation with APAN – South Asia First Meeting of the Program Committee held MoU with APNIC to be signed, APNIC presented its new policy making approach in involving regional forums like SANOG. Formal / Regular process for finding sponsors Agreement to bid for hosting APNIC 18 in Kathmandu, if possible back-to-back with SANOG IV.

9. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG III –15-22 January, 2004 –Bangalore, India –hosted by IPv6 Forum, India Program –15-19 : Workshops –20- 21: Tutorials –22 : Meeting and Conference Co-hosted with IPv6 Summit India APAN Meeting to be held in parallel (??)

10. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea SANOG III Topics –ISP Routing Workshop, APNIC DNS Workshops Security, DNS & BIND, ccTLD, Policy Based Management etc.. –We are open for it.., send me an e-mail. In fact, the program is 50% done so far, we hope to freeze it by mid-October.

11. APOPS Forum, 16 APNIC Meeting, August 21, 2003, Seoul, Korea Questions… The website will be updated soon with SANOG II materials ! –www.netsa.org.lk website and mailing list up and running –visit www.sanog.org –send e-mail to sanog-request@sanog.org with 'subscribe' in subject to subscribe to the list