APTLD Bucharest Meeting Minutes

23 June 2002, Bucharest, Romania

 

Venue: Galati Room, Marriot Grand Hotel

Date: 23 June 2002

 

Members' Meeting

Time: 09:00-16:45

Chair: Ramesh

 

1.           Follow-up on ICANN Reform issues: Peter

(Also discuss position papers from RIR, CENTR, LACTLD)ccSO/ ccTLD organization: Peter

Resolution: Regarding to the Blueprint paper of ICANN Reform, APTLD members receive the concept in general of ICANN Board and will work on the detail later.

2.            ccSO / ccTLD Organization: Peter

1.1.      Address any new developments.

1.2.      Formal APTLD decision on ccSO/ ccTLD organization

Coffee Break: 10:40-11:00

3.            AP Outreach:  Ms. Kang from .kr

4.            APTLD WG: B.K. Kim

4-1. APTLD Outreach and Name Server Training WG

4-2. Local Internet Community WG

Resolution: Propose the setting up a LIC WG but the idea is not accepted generally by members.

 

Lunch Break: 13:00-14:30

5.           Continuation of ccSO Draft review and discussion

Resolution:

1. APTLD has received the document and briefly reviewed it.  In general, APTLD agrees with the concept.

(Voted in favor by: au, jp, kr, my, nz, sg, tw, vn)

2. Further discussion will carried out via NetMeeting in late July.  And the draft document will be circulated among members to prepare a written comment before the NetMeeting.

6.           Root servers:  Kil-nam Chon

Resolution: Propose the setting up a WG at ccTLD level.

7.           IDN Fundamental Issues: Vincent Chen.

Coffee Break: 16:45-17:00

Board Meeting

Time: 17:00 -18:00

Chair: Ramesh

 

1.       Resolutions on matters discussed at Members' Meeting

1.1.            10,000 USD requested for AP Outreach is approved but subjected to receive more detail from Dr. B.K Kim.

1.2.            APTLD statement on the “Blueprint for Reform” of ICANN ERC:  The APTLD, meeting in Bucharest, Romania on June 23rd 2002 congratulates the ERC on the amount of work done in developing and producing the “Blueprint for Reform”. APTLD welcomes the recommendation that a ccTLD Support Organisation be formed. APTLD will continue to work through the complex recommendations of the Blueprint and looks forward to working with other ccTLD colleagues and the ERC to clarify and complete the ICANN reform process.

 

2.       Resolutions: APTLD processes and decision-making

2.1.            Annual meeting schedule to be decided at the first meeting held with APRICOT meetings.

2.2.            Regular F2F meetings should be scheduled each year, exclusive of meetings along side with ICANN schedule.  1 of the 3 would be AGM at APRICOT, plus 2 in AP region. .au, .jp, .kr, .my, .nz, .tw are in favor of this proposal.

2.3.            2002 AP Internet related meeting schedule in AP region before ICANN Shan-hai meeting: Fukouka in early September and APNG meetings in Shanghai in late August

2.4.            Sent e-mail to members for urgent feedback to survey possible date and place for next meeting. Options are Aug 31 and Sep 1 in Shang-hai, China during AP* or a meeting mid-September

 

3         APTLD incorporation

3.1.            Further discussion in next APTLD member meeting and will be finalized in next Board meeting.