APTLD Uruguay Meeting Minutes

 Date: 5 Sep. 2001

 Venue: Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel, Uruguay

 Time: 13:30- 19:00 PM  (Break at 15:30)

 

1.            CENTR Update by Marianne Wolfsgruber

The current funding model of CENTR has 7 fee bands from EUD 12,500 to 37,000 which select freely by ccTLD registries . On general topics, one registry one vote. On budget related issues, it depends on how much you have paid for membership fee.

 

2.            ICANN-ccTLD contract Presentation by Theresa Swinehart

3.            ccSO Formation Update by Peter D.T.

Board members attending this Board meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay approved the minutes in Taipei adhoc meeting, 26 Aug. 2001.

4.            Board Election Committee Report by B.K Kim

Next Board election will be held in next AGM in BKK, 3 March 2002. There will have Online voting for Board members and face-to-face voting for Chair and vice Chair. APTLD Secretariat will announce the call for nomination 4 weeks before AGM, 27 Jan. 2002. Each nomination will be made by APTLD ordinary member. The nomination period would be 2 weeks. The close of nomination would be 10 Feb. 2002. Candidates should be from AP region and get at least one support by APTLD ordinary member. Each ordinary members, registry of ccTLD from AP region, can nominate 1 eligible representative to be the candidate of Board. So far, there are 12 qualified voting members now, au, cn, hk, jp, kr, my, nu, nz, sg, th, tw, vn. Members will elect 7 Board members online 48 hrs before 3 March 2002. 17-24 Feb 2002 will be the online voting period. If there is tie vote, there will have another round voting from 24 to 27 Feb, 2002. The final announcement of online voting for Board members will be on 3 March 2002.

 

Board members approved the Board election rules and the bylaw of APTLD. Peter D.T will modify the bylaw.

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Peacenet from kr will help on the automatic voting system for APTLD Board election.

 

5.            DRP Educational WS in L.A. Update by Wei Mao

The chair suggested to reduce the WS from 4 hrs to 3 or 2.5 hrs, so members can have more time to discuss other important issues. W.S Chen suggested each members should attend and make their own 10 min DRP report. Peter suggested to have few longer typical presentations(more than 10 min.) and have questionnaire for members before DRP WS, so we will have better schedule.

 

6.            APTLD Incorporation

Chair suggested to have a survey on the tax, cost, regulation of each candidate of APTLD incorporation. For example, like HK, NZ, SG. YJ Park suggested to have more time for members like SG or HK to prepare for related documents and information. Sue Leader suggested to move forward since we have been working on this for a long time. Peter suggested to publish the survey for reference before 15 Sep. Anyone would like to bid or host the registration should make announcement and provide reference between 1 to 5 Oct. The Board will vote online for the final decision on 10 Oct. 2001, so Board can sign the legal documents in L.A. on 10 Nov. Whether members who would like to bid for APTLD registration should elide from voting are yet to be decided.

 

7.            APTLD/ccTLD response to ALSC Final Draft report

YJ Park asked if APTLD could support to have a non-commercial SO since the fading voices of non-commercial. Chair and vice Chair thought this is a different issue which should not discuss here.

 

8.            Next Meetings

 

YR 2001

APTLD Meeting in L.A., Nov. 10

ccTLD Meeting in L.A., Nov. 11

ICANN L.A. Meeting, Nov.12-15

 

YR2002

APAN Jan. 22, Phukhat, Thailand

APNG Camp2002 Feb.28-March.1
APNG meeting March.1(1530-1830 PM)

AP* Retreat March.2

APTLD March.3

APRICOT 2002 March. 3-7 in BKK