1. APTLD Update in AP* APTLD Secretariat Dr. Vincent (Wen-sung) Chen Wschen@twnic.net.tw

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. History 1997.6 Ad hoc Meetings on DNS in Kuala Lumpur during INET’97 1998.2 BoF on TLD in Manila during APRICOT’98 1998.7 Inaugural AP(cc)TLD Meetings in Geneva during INET’98 1998.8 Second APTLD Meeting in Singapore during AP-IFWP. 1999.3 Third APTLD Meeting in Singapore 1999.6 Fourth APTLD Meeting in San Jose 1999.11 Ad hoc APTLD Meeting in the Los Angeles 2000.2 Fifth APTLD Meeting in Seoul during APRICOT’2000 2000.7 Sixth APTLD Meeting in Yokohama during ICANN 2000.10 APTLD Board Meeting in Bangkok 2000.11 Seventh APTLD Meeting in Los Angeles during ICANN 2001.2 Eighth APTLD Meeting in Kuala Lumpur during APRICOT’2001 2001.3 APTLD ICANN-ccTLD Contract WS in Melbourne during ICANN

4. Structure Board Committees Working Groups Board/ Member Meeting Secretariat

5. Board Members Hualin Qian/CNChair Peter Dengate-Thrush/NZ Senior VC Bill Semich/NU VC (Treasurer) Shuichi Tashiro/JP VC (Membership) Kwan Ho Song/KR Wen-Sung Chen/TW Kanchana Kanchanasut/TH Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah/MY

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

7. Working Groups 1. ccDRP: Hung 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

8. WGs Mailing List Mdn@aptld.org Icann@aptld.org Trans@aptld.org Outreach@aptld.org Drp@aptld.org

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

10. Secretariat TWNIC is selected as secretariat for 2000.10-2002.10 Director: Dr. Wen-sung Chen Administrative Support and Service: Fast and Best

11. Membership Current Ordinary/ Voting Members:.CN,.HK,.JP,.KR,.MY,.NU,.NZ,.SG,.TH,.TJ,.TP,.TW,.VN Associate Members : Internet Governance Consultants Limited Others

12. In Year 2000 1.Select new permanent secretariat 2.Transfer website and bank account to new secretariat 3.Board/ Member Meetings in Japan, Bangkok, L.A. 4.A letter to ICANN CEO 5.Forge 5 WGs

13. In Year 2001 1.Incorporated APTLD 2.Outreach and Awareness 3.Work with other Regional NICs 4.Direct dialogue with ICANN--- APTLD-ICANN meeting in Hawaii 5. ICANN Contract WS in Melbourne

14. 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

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

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

17. 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 CDNC and other IDN study organiztions GAC IDN WG ICANN Survey

18. We want you! Join APTLD Now!