Agenda
AP* Joint Secretariat Meeting 24 August, 2001 AIT, Bangkok
| Draft Agenda Chair ( Prof. Kilnam Chon, Prof. Tan Tin Wee) 1. Roll Call (Introduction) 2. Agenda Update 3. Report on AP* organization’s secretariat activities. APNG APNIC APAN APBioNet APIA APRICOT APTLD AI3 APDIP APJS AP outreach | 08:30 – 08:40 08:40 – 09:00 09:00 – 10:20 |
Coffee Break | 10:20 – 10:30 |
4. Report of the related secretariats (ccTLD,MINC, INFITT) | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| 5. Discussion on | 11:00 – 12:00 |
| a. Secretariat coordination b. Meeting scheduling c. Outreach coordination d. Document coordination | |
Luncheon | 12: 00 – 13:00 |
Minutes
| AP Joint Secretariat Meeting Report 24 August 2001, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Location: TC Building #203, AIT. Bangkok |
Participants: Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut, Prof. Toru Takahashi, Prof. Xing Li, Prof. Kilnam Chon, Byung Kim, Dr. Vincent W.S. Chen, Hirofumi Hotta, Prof. Shigeki Goto, Jeongjun Seo, Shoba Ranganathan, Subramaniam D, Ms.YJ Park, Paul Wilson, Seung-Yeon Yoo, Suguru Yamaguchi, Shahid Akhtar, Dr.Abhisak Chulya, Prof. YJ Park, Ranie Lee, Jeongjun Seo, Pensri A., Natchana P., Faraah Zubair Meeting started at 8:30 A.M (local time)The meeting discussed following topics: The meeting chair Prof. Kilnam Chon expressed his thanks to all meeting participants. He asked the participants to review the agenda. After discussion participants agreed on basic meeting agenda. The minutes follow the sequence of meeting agenda.1.Reports on AP* organizations’ secretariat activities. All AP* members presented their reports. 1.1. Report by APNG Report presented by Prof. Xing Li, APNG Secretariat 1.2 Report by APNIC Report presented by Paul Wilson, Director General Rapid growth and soon, the largest Registry of Internet resources Staff ( Six persons)Financial Growth ( budget around 3 million US$ per year)Meeting (Open policy and Annual member meetings)Regular training once per month ( next year 2 per month)Joint Collaboration (with APTLD and AP Outreach)IP allocationOn line numbers used by Internet engineering community.APNIC news latter and other publication 1.3. Report by APAN Report presented by Professor YJ ParkResearch, education high performance networkAgriculture Earth Monitoring WG leading globallyBioinformaticsGlobal interconnectivity and collaboration 1.4. Report by APBioNet Report presented by Shoba Ranganathan,Internet: APBionet & APANBioGRIDInCOB 2002 Conference in Bangkok Feb 2002 supported by APBioNetForum onBioPathways consortium,I3C Informatics Interoperability consortiumBioOntologies consortiumSIGSIMWEB01 Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics Open Source Consortium 1.5. Report by APRICOT Dr. Abisak, chairman of organizing committee presented the reportNext APRICOT will be held in Bangkok during 3 -7 March 2002. To be Hosted by NECTECFellowship program *To attract network builders and top decision-makers that are not available in fund in developing countries. *Committee members select fellows based on fairness and transparency. *10 % from sponsorship funds would go to this program if agreed by sponsors and they would optionally have seats in the Fellowship Committee. 1.6. Report by APTLD Report presented by Dr. Vincent W.S. Chen243 ccTLDs around the world.Working GroupsWGs Mailing ListMembershipIssue (IDN)Incorporated APTLDOutreach and AwarenessWork with other Regional NICsDirect dialogue with ICANNAPTLD – ICANN meeting in HawaiiICANN Contract WS in Melbourne 1.7. Report by AI3 / WIDE Report presented by Suguru Yamaguchi. 1.8. Report by APIA Report was given by Mr. Hirofumi Hotta.Interim secretary General ( Kyoko day)Finance (Funds by membership fee)Publishing the newsletterLiaising endorsement/participation of conferencesEndorsement and participation in 2001:APRICOTCommunic Asia 2001INFOCOMMS Forum 1.9. Report by AP Outreach Report presented by BK KimAP* region needs “ Outreach and Awarence ”Provide information and Discuses ICANN and IT related issuesFunding( from APTLD, APNIC KRNIC, from local host2. Report of the related secretariats 2.1. Report by MINC Report presented by Ms. Ranie LeeFacilitating Multilingualisation of Internet NamesInternationalization of Internet Names Standards and ProtocolsInauguration of Newly elected MINC Board Members(Montevideo, SeptemberNew Members Committed to Join —NEW.NET as a Small Member —RIIS as a Small MemberWatchdogging the Standardization Process of Internet Domain NamesEncouraging Discussion and Research on Multilingual Internet Names 2.2. Report by ccTLD Report presented by Ms. Seung-Yeon Yoo.Permanent ccTLD secretariatStaff MembersccTLD web site ( transferred to Korea)ccTLD mailing list and Web archivesPublicizing, promoting and encouraging development activitiesOrganizations services for ccTLD meetingsEditing and preparing the various official documents of the ccTLD Constituency for publication,Election and Voting 2.3. Report by INFITT Report presented by Mr.Subramaniam .DDevelop norms and standards for Tamil computingIdentify and facilitate key applications for development of Tamil ITRepresent global Tamil Diaspora in IT world activitiesCo-ordinate efforts among various Tamil IT groupsPromote Tamil IT among Tamil DiasporaTamil Internet 2001 Conference(26 – 28 August 2001) 3. Discussion on Coordination Issues In relation to the meeting calendar, the issue of coordination was raised and it was emphasized that we need to do coordination weekly and update information on daily and weekly basis. AP* Retreat sec should try to improve meeting schedule.Comments from AP* Retreat sec. The secretariat maintains information on AP* web site. So, if any one wants updated information about related meetings, they should visit this web site.APNIC can also help in announcements. Maybe we can subscribe APNIC announcement mailing list for all related meeting information.In case of a meeting in a certain country, the country level organization can be requested to support.Newsletter and other documents should be sent to AP* retreat sec so that they could distribute this information.We should try to hold simultaneous meetings, so that more and more people can participate in them. 4. AP Joint Secretariat Interim Board In this meeting participants also discussed regarding the board structure. After discussion participants were agreed on these names. It was also decided that in next AP* Retreat meeting which will held in Feb 2002 at AIT, Bangkok, we will have election for new board members.AP Joint Secretariat Interim Board Toru Takahashi, Chairman of the Board Hiro Hotta, APIA YJ Park , MINC Prof. Xing Li, APNG Paul Wilson, APNIC Dr. Vincent W.S. Chen, APTLD Prof. Tan Tin Wee, AP Bionet * Prof. Tan Tin Wee recommended Mr.Subramaniam .D as board member on his place. |