APTLD Perth Meeting Communiqué

11 November 2004

APTLD members and Board Directors met on 5th November 2004 at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel in Perth, Australia. As this is the last meeting of the 2004 year, the agenda included a review of the work carried out in the year 2004 and to plan for the year of 2005. A total of 21 member delegates were present representing: .au, .cx, .af, .kr, .my, .nu, .nz, .sg and .tw.

In addition to planning for the activities and budget of the coming year, because the APTLD Secretariat will shift from Taiwan to New Zealand at the end of December, some time was spent on transition discussions.

The Membership/Sponsorship Committee, ICANN Relations Committee, Constitutional Committee, Meeting Committee and Audit Committee each gave update report on their future objectives and work plans for the year 2005. 

After consultation and discussion with member delegates present, the APTLD Board adopted several resolutions the most significant of which were:

(a) to convey to the ccNSO APTLD’s decision to become an RO;

(b) to circulate the WSIS templates developed by ICANN to the members’ list and try to develop an APTLD position;

(c) to begin investigating immediately on the employment by APTLD of a full time manager.

In addition, the APTLD Board made administrative resolutions including allocating draft sums in the budget for committees to carry out their work plans; adopting the Meetings Manual presented by the Meeting Committee; and beginning the preparation of a set of constitutional amendments, to be presented at the 2006 AGM.;

The meeting joined with acclamation in the Chair’s personal thanks to TWNIC for hosting the APTLD secretariat, with presentations to Ian Chiang and Joanna Tso for their work.

The board noted with pleasure the good work being done by the secretariat transition team of .tw and .nz, and looks forward to a successful transition to New Zealand of the APTLD secretariat.

In 2005, the first two of the three APTLD meetings will take place: in Kyoto in February, and Singapore during June.  The Board wishes the third meeting to take place in the East Asia region, and will be soliciting offers from countries in that region.  A paper will be prepared on the options of meetings dates and times for APTLD for 2006 and beyond for review and discussion at the coming APTLD AGM in February 2005.

Lastly, the APTLD Board expresses appreciation to Chris Disspain on behalf of AuDa for hosting the Perth Meeting including sponsoring dinner, and the beach breakfast

Signed by:
APTLD Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush

Members of the Board: Chan-ki Park, Chris Disspain, Stafford Guest (proxy for Richard St. Clair), Shariya Haniz Zulkifli, and Vincent WS Chen.