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 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF APTLD HELD ON MARCH 1 1999 AT SUNTEC
 CITY DOWNTOWN SINGAPORE AT 1300.
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The meeting was chaired by Prof Kilnam Chon (Korea). 
 
APOLOGIES: No apologies were received.
 
PREVIOUS MINUTES: Minutes of the last annual general meeting were not
tabled. 
 
AGENDA: The agenda for the AGM was presented by Prof Chon and approved.
 
Reports:
 
Reports on the joint meeting on multi lingual names and DNS, APTLD
workshop on DNS and APTLD country report on government roles were not
discussed as most delegates were present at the meetings. 
 
1. IFWP ( O'Brien NZ) :reported a MOI on the status of the group had been
formulated for the formal transfer to ICANN. 2. DNSO (Chon): meetings had
produced the BMW and Paris drafts but there had been a lack of interest by
APTLD mainly due to travel constraints by smaller countries. Semich (Niue)
also reported on previous DNSO meetings outlining the main issues of a
Name Council and DNSO membership.. 3. ICANN Takahashi ( Japan):reported
on workshops held during the past 12 months 4. WWTLD: (Chon): provided the
meeting with information from previous meetings. 5. WIPO (O'Brien): said
a request for comments [rfc] issued by WIPO been presented in various
countries around the world and as many issues of intellectual property
faced members of APTLD he suggested reps from WIPO be invited to present a
discussion pap er at San Jose June 22 1999. 
 
Working Group Reports:
 
iName/iDNS (Kuo-Wei Wu): Issues of using ethnic languages in common name
address systems were discussed and it was decided to attempt to find out
the needs of Asia Pacific countries who wished to participate in such a
system. 
 
Funding Model(O'Brien):In relation to the formalization of APTLD the
question of funding a secretariat was outlined and it was estimated that
financing such a project would cost between $USD50,000 - $100,000. The
chairman suggested that fees could be levi ed on the basis of large TLD's
of 50,000 registrations $10,000 pa; medium TLD's 5000 $2,000 pa: small
TLD's up to 5000 $400.Fees would fund the secretariat and assist small
countries with travel subsidization. 
 
Education (Higgins): There was need for more time to discuss education and
training at future meetings especially for those from low level technology
countries such as those in the South Pacific. UNESCO was assisting by
funding training courses in Welling ton NZ for Pacific Islanders It was
recommended that a two day workshops be scheduled for future meetings. 
 
Administration : Discussions are continuing on APTLD administration. 
 
Incorporation: Delegates were informed there were three alternatives for
the future of APTLD- incorporation, operation under APNG umbrella or no
incorporation-independent. If it was the intention to form a secretariat
and employ staff then incorporation was necessary. If incorporation was
agreed upon it would be necessary to have a membership and fee structures
and determine the cost of incorporation . It was agreed by a majority
that there be a payment of fees based on the number of registrations which
could produce revenue of $52,000 based on 4 large TLD's, 5 medium TLD's
and 5 small TLD's. 
 
In addition it was agreed by members that those countries interested in
pitching for the secretariat produce expressions of interest based on
incorporation, non incorporation and working under the umbrella of APNG. 
 
Future Plans -Committees:
 
1. DNSO: The meeting agreed there was no APTLD position and delgates were
encouraged to actively participate in the current DNSO Meeting discussions
on the BMW and Paris drafts
 
2. DNSO - Registry constituency(ccTLD): It was decided to persue registry
constituency representation. 
 
3.Chairperson: Professor Chon agreed to serve
another 12 months as chairman of APTLD. 
 
4.Committees: The following committees were set up with country
representation in parenthisis: 
 
Legal - Patrick O'Brien ( NZ, TW, NU,SG,JP,KR).
Internationalized Name - Ku-Wei Wu ( KR, TW, SG,JP,KP, TH,CN).
Workshops- Bill Semich (NU, NZ, TH, SG ,LK).
Developing Countries - Hua-Lin Qian ( CN, SG, KH,NZ).
Special Projects - Agnes Lee (SG).
Finance - Shuichi Tashiro (JP .com AU).
Technology - Gihan Dias (LK, SG,PH,NU,KR,TW)
 
Liasion: 
 
 APTLD Liaison Organization
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APNG  Ku-Wei Wu  Adam Peak 
APNIC Shuichi Tashiro Paul Wilson
APIA Izumi Aizu  Izumi Aizu 
CENTR Patrick O'Brien  Fay Haward 
LACTLD Kilnam Chon  Oscar Robeilo
AFTLD Kilnam Chon Nii Quaynor
ICANN 
 Board Jun Murai
 MAC  Kanchana Kanchanasut
 GAC Hua-Lin Qian 
 RSC Jun Murai
 DNSO Bill Semich
WIPO Ching-Yi Liu
 
Meeting schedules:
 
APTLD - San Jose USA June 21
TLD Workshop - San Jose USA June 22
ICANN Berlin May 25-27(DNSO General Assembly on May 25) 
ICANN Chile August
ICANN USA November
ICANN Africa February 2000(?)
APTLD  February 2000
 
The meeting concluded at 6.32 pm.
 
 
Appendix : 1999.2 APTLD Meetings Participant List
 
 
Name E-mail/Affiliation
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Adelene Yeo adelene_YEO@sba.gov.sg 
 Singapore Broadcasting Authority
Agnes Lee  agneslee@nic.net.sg
 SGNIC 
Azmah Abd Malik azmah@mimos.my
 Mimos Berhad
Brian Tombleson womble@eaglegroup.com.mm
 Eagle Computing Development Co. Ltd
Chanki Park ckp@nca.or.kr
 Center for National Informatization
Chris Chaundy  chris@connect.com.au 
 connect.com.au Pty Ltd (net.au registry) 
Chuek Gomes chuckg@netsol.com
 Network Solutions
Erica Roberts erica.roberts@noie.gov.au
 NOIE 
Fay Howard fay@ripe.net
 CENTR 
Fu Kuei Chung   fkchung@ms1.hinet.net 
 Chung-Hwa Telcom 
Gihan Dias gihan@cse.mrt.ac.lk
 
Hualin Qian hlqian@cnnic.net.cn
 China Internet Network Information Center
Jim Higgins president@isocnz.org.nz
 Internet Society of New Zealand
William Semich bsemich@mail.nu
 .Nu Domain Ltd 
Jennings Dennis  Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie
 CENTR 
Jeong Seong-Moon  ibi007@ibi.net 
 IBI Co., Ltd.
Joel Disini jed@email.com.ph
 PH Domain Registry
Kanakubo, Noriko kanakubo@ntt.ocn.ne.jp
 NTT
Kanchana Kanchanasut kk@cs.ait.ac.th
 AIT
Kenny Huang huangk@sinica.edu.tw
 Academia Sinica 
Kilnam Chon chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr
 APTLD 
Kim Kwangsu bachelor@mic.mic.go.kr
 Ministry of Inforamtion and Communication
Kuo-Wei Wu kwu@nchc.gov.tw
 National Center for High-Peformance Computing
Lai Wei-Lain lai@iii.org.tw
 III 
Lars Liman apricot-tmp@sunet.se
 RIT
Mathias Korber   mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg
 SingTel 
Mike Gaertner mg@forum.org.kh
 OFC
Mohamed Awang Lah mal@mimos.my
 Mimos Berhad
Mylene Anastacio macs@msar.com.ph
 Internet E-Mail Corportation
Nagao Asami anagao@ntt.ocn.ne.jp
 NTT 
Naomasa Maruyama intl-sec@nic.ad.jp
 JPNIC
Nian Shing Chen  nschen@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
 TWNIC 
Niyada Vararbukka nikki.vararbukka@noie.gov.au
 NOIE
Oh Kwang Sok ohks@nca.or.kr
 NCA
P. O'Brien p.o.brien@domainz.net.nz
 domainz
Pensri Arunnatanamongkol pensri@cs.ait.ac.th
  AIT
Pornthep Narula tep@nectec.or.th
 National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Richard Lindsay richard@interq.ad.jp
 inter Q. inc
Rikio Onai  onai@po.ntts.co.jp
 NTT Software 
Shian Shiong Tseng sstseng@cis.nctu.edu.tw
 TWNIC 
Shigeki Goto goto@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp
 JPNIC
Shuichi Tashiro tashiro@etl.go.jp
 JPNIC
Soo Youn Lee leesy@daisy.kwangwoon.ac.kr
 KRIA Name Committee
Stafford Guest sguest@cas.nu
 IUS-Niue 
Takahashi Toru toru@TokyoNET.AD.JP
 Tokyo Internet Corportation
Tenzin Dolema Norbhu ?
 Malaysia?
Tommy Matsumoto tommy.matsumoto@ap.att.com
 AT&T
Umardevi Thirumana umardevi@ncb.gov.sg
 SGNIC 
Yoshiko Chong Fong intl-sec@nic.ad.jp
 JPNIC
Yoshiro Yoneya yone@po.ntts.co.jp
 NTT Software Corporation
Yumi Ohashi intl-sec@nic.ad.jp
 JPNIC
Zaw Tint zawtint@mtpt400.stems.com
 MPT
Zita Wenzel zita@isi.edu
 Information Sciences Institute
 US Domain Registry