Minutes

The Meeting of the APTLD Board

AIT, Bangkok, Thailand

October 20-21, 2000

A meeting of the Board members of Asia-Pacific Top Level Domain Forum was held in

open session at 1300 local time at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand,

on Oct 21 and 22, 2000.

1. Present:

Chairman: Professor Hualin Qian.

Board Members: J. William Semich (Proxy: Stafford Guest), Peter Dengate Thrush,

Kwang Ho Song (Proxy: Byung-Kyu Kim), Shuich Tasiro (Proxy: Hirofumi Hotta),

Wen-Sung Chen, Kanchana Kanchanasut, Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah.

Attendees: Kilnam Chon, Abhisak Chulya, Anwar Chan, Shoba Ranganathan,

S. Maniam, Linda Kayla, Peter de Blanc, Shigeki Goto, Toru Takahashi, YJ park,

Yu Yang, Shariya Haniz Zulkifli, Jeongjun Seo, Albert Wang.

2. Secretariat Selection:

a. THNIC and TWNIC presented their secretariat proposals and answered some questions

from Board members.

b. The 2 years secretariat term is approved by Board members, and Board will sign a

formal contract to new secretariat.

c. Peter Dengate Thrush, chair of Finance Committee, is in charge of contract draft

which needs to be approved by the Board ASAP.

d. Via two-round voting, TWNIC's proposal was selected as new APTLD secretariat for

next 2 years.

3. Membership Fee Structure Review:

There are three types of membership in APTLD that are open to different types of

entities. All ccTLDs from the Asia-Pacific Region, organizations and individuals,

which have any business interest relating to the registration of domain names on

the Internet, and gTLD registries on the Internet.

a. Ordinary Membership is open to organizations that manage and operate the ccTLD

registries of the Asia-Pacific region. Ordinary members are entitled to vote at

the general meetings and on all APTLD issues. Registries that qualify for

Ordinary membership are asked to voluntarily select from seven membership fee

bands.

b. Associate Corporate membership is open to any firm or established organization,

including any gTLD registry or Registrar as designated by ICANN, which are

involved in domain names and which are incorporated, registered or otherwise

recognized under the laws of their relevant countries.

c. Associate Individual membership is open to any individual who has any

interest relating to the registration of domain names on the Internet.

Ordinary Membership and Associate Corporate Membership are asked to voluntarily

select from seven membership fee bands:

Membership Fees (US$)

Very Large $20,000 Large $10,000

Medium Large $ 5,000 Medium $ 2,000

Medium Small $ 1,000 Small $ 500

Very Small $ 100

As a guideline: Large = >50,000 ccTLD Domain Name registrations

Medium = >5,000 ccTLD Domain Name registrations

Small = <5,000 ccTLD Domain Name registrations

Applicants should complete the Ordinary Membership Application Form

and return it to the APTLD Secretariat. http://www.aptld.org/

4. APTLD Article Review:

a. The new Article will be revised by membership modification and then

circulate new version to Board member by email.

b. Peter Dengate Thrush, chair of Finance Committee, is in charge of

new Article revision and complete it ASAP for further new Company startup.

5. Financial Account, Website, Company registration issues:

a. New Company should be startup ASAP. It will consider the conditions

of tax and flexibility of registration in Republic of Seychelles,

British Virgin Island, Cayman Island, Singapore or other suitable places.

b. For membership fee collection, it may need to open a bank account for

temporary usage.

c. Website will be transferred to TWNIC from Korea ASAP. It's suggested that

Websites mirror architecture as following:

Aptld.org (development and maintenance website)

www.aptld.org (public website)

(cctld).aptld.org (mirror to www.aptld.org)

6. Committees and Working Group Formation:

a. Various Committees and Working Groups are also reorganized as following:

There are three committees: Finance Committee (chaired by Peter Dengate Thrush),

Legal and Regulatory Committee (chaired by J. William Semich) and Membership

Committee (chaired by Shuich Tasiro). There are five Working Groups: ccDRP WG,

Outreach and Awareness WG, Translation WG, Multilingual DNS liaison WG, DNS

Technology, ICANN relationship WG..

b. Please recommend WGs chair and its formation procedure. Next meeting will

discuss it more detail.

7. Relationship with other Organizations:

a. More relationship with ccTLD Constituency for Workshop, outreach and

awareness and related activities.

b. Please circulate "Joint Communique of The AP* Retreat Meeting of Leaders

of Asia Pacific Internet Organizations And associated International

Organizations At the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok 20th - 23rd

October 2000" to Board members and endorse it to submit to ICANN board.

8. Outreach and Awareness:

a. Kim and YJ presented their Outreach and Awareness Secretariat Proposal

to seek for outreach and awareness program collaboration in AP*Retreat

organizations.

b. Set up, outreach and awareness WG will collaborate related activities

and organizations.

9. Future meeting:

a. L.A. meeting with ICANN/ccTLD

Nov 11, 2000 09:00-12:00 APTLD open Board meeting

Nov 11, 2000 13:00-18:00 APTLD open member meeting

Nov 14, 2000 18:30-21:00 APTLD-GAC joint dinner meeting

Nov 16, 2000 07:30-09:00 APTLD Board meeting(Breakfast)

b. Kuala Lumpur meeting with APRICOT

Feb 24, 2001 09:00-17:00 APTLD Member and Board meeting

10. Communications:

The Chair and all of APTLD board member would like to thank THNIC, Prof Kanchana, President Armand and all their crews for arranging and hosting our meeting with their hospitality. We would also like to thank Dr. Kilnam Chon and other attendees for your great contribution in providing the professional advice and helpful information in this meeting.

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APTLD Secretariat