Ad Hoc APTLD Meeting Minutes 
 
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 Date: 1999. 5. 24 14:00 - 18:00 
 Venue: Hotel Adlon, Berlin 
 Chair: Prof. Kilnam Chon 
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 1. The APTLD Issues 
 
 1-1. Joint TLD workshop(Semich)
 
 APTLD, AFTLD, LACTLD and CENTR will participate in the coming the
 Joint TLD workshop in San Jose.
 
 Workshop charge will be imposed from 50 - 100 USD.
 Scholarship would be avaiulable for the attendees from develping countries. 
 
 1-2. The APTLD Committees Report
 
 Finance Committee (Tashiro)
 - APTLD was supposed to have donation from its members which was 
  estimated to amount to at least 40,000 USD for 1999.
 (not membership fee, but donation)
 
 - All potential members are expected to study the Singapore financial 
 statement of March 1999 as well as Finance Committee Charter in APTLD
 website. In the meeting in Singapore on March 1, potential members 
 agreed that the total membership fee of APTLD will be 50,000 to 
 100,000 USD. Currentlly, full-time 1 person is needed to employ as 
 a secretary, and meeting expenses are also needed. 
 
 - With the ccTLD constituency coming into its being, or with the other
 entities forming themselves, finance support to APTLD from members 
 might be intertwined with various kinds of different organizations' 
  fees. The role APTLD is seeking, therefore, should be focused on 
  its own missions. 
  [Refer to APTLD Overview Presentation Material in www.aptld.org
 for the current consensus position]
 
 - Japan, one of the main fund source countries, is mulling over the 
 reason to support APTLD because they couldn't reach the consensus that   APTLD is firmly established organization, incorporating or not, going 
 under the umbrella of APNG or not, to secure the donation. 
 For the sake of its legitimate existence, APTLD is required to contract
 a written Memorandom of Understanding with JPNIC to meet its own audit
 standard. A proposal on MoU will be submitted soon; and Exec Committee
 will discuss the MoU draft, which should be publicly stated by APTLD.
 The statement of the chair of APTLD about the organization can 
 meet the audit requirement for short term. 
 
 Legal Committee - Incorporation (Semich)
 - Any ccTLDs or other groups interested in managing the secretariat 
 are expected to submit its proposal, which will be discussed 
 in San Jose this month.
 
 Reports on the Developing country Committee, Technical Committee
  iName Committtee and Legal Committee - ICANN contract and Intellectual 
 Property were not presented due to each committee coordinator's 
 absence.
 
 
 2. Berlin ICANN and DNSO Issues 
 
 2-1. ccTLD
 
 - ccTLD constituency meeting was held the next day.
 [The consensus proposal was developed then]
 
 - It is imperative to cooperate with Latin America and Africa 
 for the nomination of Names Council.
 
 2-2. Commercial constituency
   
 - Mr. Katoh of Fujitus USA was the recommended candidate for the 
 Names Council seat from APTLD.
 
 2-3. gTLD(Gomes)
 
 - NSI submitted a proposal. gTLD meeting will be held concentrating on
 the issue of open TLD vs. closed TLD. However, .mil administrator are 
 nonchalant about this issue.
 
 2-4. ISP(Aizu)
 
 - APIA have not joined the ISP consortium proposal submitted by 
 CIX, ISPC and EuroESPA.
 
 - No interest has been expressed among APIA members with the fact 
 that APIA is not ISP association. However, APIA will encourage its 
 members to be involved with this DNSO constitency process.
 
 - Mr. Hotta will make a call NTT to figure out whether or not he would 
 be available for the Names Council candidate.
 [He was nominated in the Names Council with the resignation 
 of Siegfried/European seat.]
 
 2-5. Non-commercial(Semich)
 
 - ISOC will take a lead in this process while ACM shows its keen 
 interest in this constituency.
 
 - ICIIU and its twelve supporting organizations were the organizers of 
 this constituency, submitted one of the three guidelines proposals 
 for it, and were one of the three negotiators of the compromise NCDNHC 
 definition in Berlin.(Comment from Michael Sondow) 
 
 - Mr. Maruyama and Ms. Kayla will attend the meeting.
 
 2-6. Registrar
 
 - With Amadeu's proposal posted, the other 4 accredited registrars, one of
  which is Melbourne IT from AP, joined the proposal.
 
 - For those ccTLDs who have registrar portion might consider joining this process with strong initiative.
 
 2-7. Intellectual Property(Maruyama)
 
 - Bar Association and IP Association in Japan are interested in this 
 constituency; but, it will not be implemented until enough financial 
 support will be available.
 
 - Jian-Li Liu is expected to be in the meeting and seemed to be a 
 qualified candidate for the Names Council. Mr. Robles will try to 
 contact TADEO
 (Trademark Association of Latin America)
 
 3. APTLD's position in ICANN Open Meeting?(Aizu)
 
 - The geographical diversity issue in the process of constituency 
  formation should be reinforced lest ICANN should loosen its first
 devised requirement for equal participation.
 
 - Executive Committee will meet after the General Assembly Meeting
 tomorrow(May 25, 17:00) at the lobby to discuss on ICANN Open Meeting.
 
 4. Participant List of Ad hoc Berlin APTLD Meeting(May 24 1999)
 
 Name email Constituency meeting
 
 Ramesh Nadarayah ramesh@mimos.my ccTLD
 Ed Sweeney ed@capital.net.au ccTLD
 Yumi Ohashi yumi@nic.ad.jp  IP 
 Makiko Matsumaru makiko@nic.ad.jp ccTLD
 Toshi Tsubo tsubo@global-commons.co.jp ccTLD
 Maruyama Naomasa maruyama@nic.ad.jp ccTLD(look around ..)
 Shuichi Tashiro tashiro@nic.ad.jp ccTLD
 Don Telade dont@netsol.com ccTLD
 Kanchana Kanchanasut kk@cs.ait.ac.th  MAC 
 Agnes Lee agneslee@nic.net.sg ccTLD
 Hal Carroll hcarroll@ehlaw.com Non-commercial
 Jim Higgins jhiggins@netedge.co.nz ccTLD
 Bill Semich bill@mail.nic.nu ccTLD
 Linda Kayla lkayla@mail.nu Non-commercial
 Hiro Hotta h.hotta@hco.ntt.co.jp ISP
 Izumi Aizu izumi@anr.org MAC
 Masanobu Katoh mkatoh@fujitsu.com Business
 Nii Quaynor  quaynor@ghana.com MAC
 David Johnson djohnson@wilmer.com 
 Chuck Gomes   chuckg@netsd.com Registrar
 Richard Sexton richard@dns.list all
 Jay Fenelo jay@iperdome.com IP
 Milton Mueller mueller@syr.edu Non-commercial
 Antony Van Couvering avc@interport.net ccTLD
 Oscar Robles orobles@nic.mx ccTLD
 German Valdez Aviles gvaldez@nic.mx ccTLD
 Kilnam Chon chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr ccTLD
 Younjung Park yjpark@aptld.org ccTLD
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 Appendix A
 
 1.AP representative in Names Council
 
 2.Geographical Diversity
 
 3.WIPO process for developing country
 
 4.GAC
 
 5.Membership Drive
 
 Participant List of the 2nd Ad hoc Berlin Meetng(1999. 5. 26.)
 
 Bill Semich .NU 
 Asami Nagao .JP anagao@ntt.ocn.ne.jp
 Ramesh Nadarayah .MY
 Shuichi Tashiro  .JP
 Masanobu Katoh .JP  mkatoh@wdc.fujitsu.com
 Jim Higgins .NZ
 Hiro Hotta .JP
 Jian-Yi Liu .TW 
 Kuo-Wei Wu .TW kwu@yam.com.tw
 Agnes Lee .SG
 Kanchana Kanchanasut .TH
 Toshi Tsubo .JP
 Izumi Aizu .JP
 Yumi Ohashi .JP
 Naomasa Maruyama .JP
 Kilnam Chon .APTLD
 Younjung Park .APTLD 
 
 
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 Appendix B
 
  [TBD]
 
 Joint TLD Workshop Committee(1999. 5. 27)
 
 
 Participant List of the Joint TLD Workshop Committee Berlin Meetng(1999. 5.27)
 
 Nii Quaynor 
 Oscar Robles 
 German Valdez Aviles
 Asami Nagao 
 Ramesh Nadarayah 
 Agnes Lee 
 Hiro Hotta 
 Bill Semich
 Kilnam Chon 
 Younjung Park 
 
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