APRICOT 2003 NEWS

Summary of 2003 Annual Conference of Major Virtual Communities in the Asia Pacific Region

n The Third APNG Camp in Taipei

The third Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp (APNG Camp) just ended successfully, which was at from February 20-21 in Taipei. There were 73 people from countries such as Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Singapore, Australia, Thailand and Germany attended this camp.

The host sponsor for this APNG Camp was TWNIC. Contents of the camp were based on on-line virtual communities, on-line games, and network space gender issues to structure a social issue derived from new-generation network users. Young people from various countries aimed at these issues to put forward the current situation of usage and development in their own countries, and exchange appearances and problems to use the network enthusiastically with other participators.

Under the assistance of the videoconference technology, this conference also tried to connect with Mainland China, Korea and Germany on the spot in at the Taipei conference, and directly discussed hot topics such as virtual societiesy, role-plays, and gender issues when using the network with local participators, and aroused an enthusiastic response.

The next new-generation network leader camp will be held in Busan, Korea. It can be expected that under the lead of this camp, the Busan camp in August will be more diversified in the planning of contents.

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n 2/22~2/23 2003 AP* Retreat in Taipei

2/22~2/23 2003 AP* Retreat (Asia Pacific Star Retreat) just ended in Taipei successfully. The Internet organizations such as APN, APAN, APNIC, AI3, APIA, APOPS/APRICOT, APTLD, APCAUCE/AP Net abuse, AP Joint sec attended the retreat. In the retreat, every organization aimed at activities they carried out in 2002 to present an annual report and shared operational experiences with other organizations.

Afterwards, every organization aimed at issues such as APjtsec funding, collective collaboration mechanisms, Internet sSchools of Internet, E-Learning projects, Broadband development in AP, AP Internet Security efforts/projects, AP Net Abuse, Laws, Policiesy, Services and Technology to present speeches and exchange opinions.

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n 2/24 2003 APTLD Annual General Meeting in Taipei

The 2/24 2003 APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain) Annual General Meeting just ended in Taipei. During the new year, APTLD will strive for three objectives, including confirming the corporate qualifications of APTLD, enhancing the connection of internal network, and enhancing the connection and cooperation with important global network organizations.

The APTLD 2003 annual meeting in Taipei also reelected new directors, the name list is as follows: chairman: Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah ¡]Malaysia¡^; three vice chairmen: Peter Dengate Thrush ¡]New Zealand¡^, Yumi Ohashi ¡]Japan¡^, Chan-ki Park¡]South Korea¡^; other directors: Chris Disspain ¡]Australia¡^, Hualin Qian ¡]China¡^, Richard St. Clair ¡]Nauru¡^, Vincent WS Chen ¡]Taiwan¡^. The term of service for directors of Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Taiwan is 2 years, and the term for other directors is one year. It There will be reelected reelection in 2004.

APTLD will hold 4 conferences this year, besides the Taipei annual conference., theThe other three plans to be held in Malaysia (or Singapore), Busan, of Korea and New Zealand.

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n 2003 APIA Annual General Meeting in Taipei

APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association) Annual General Meeting just ended at on February 24, and about 30 people attended the meeting. APIA reported the operational condition in 2002 during the meeting, and aimed at issues such as Internet Industry Country Status Reports, APIA-APRICOT Annual Member Meeting, AP IX Operators Forum with APOPS, and ISP Peering Simulation Game to present speeches and carry out discussions. APRICOT activity project managed by APIA had also been passed in the meeting.

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n 2003 APSIRC in Taipei

2003 Asia Pacific Security Incident Response Coordination Conference (APSIRC) was just successfully held at on February 24. Minister of State of the Republic of China (R.O.C.), Ching-Yen Tsay, Ph.D. presented the speech. 135 people from countries such as Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the Asia Pacific Region attended the conference.

Issues such as Incidents and Vulnerability trends in the Asia Pacific Region, Regional Activities in the Asia & Pacific, Progress in Auto incident response systems in Korea, Recent Training Activities and Requirements on the CSIRT's training, the network security and weakness trend in the Asia Pacific Region were discussed in at the conference. The conference also introduced anti-virus experiences of the American Computer Emergency Response Center, information security issues, suggestions and methods of the European Union, and announced the latest training activities and the brief introduction of demands.

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n 2/24-2/28 2003 10th CDNC/JET in Taipei

The 10th Chinese Domain name Consortium (CDNC) just held in Taipei International Convention Center during February 24-28, 2003. There were nearly 30 people from organizations such as CNNIC, TWNIC, MONIC and HKNIC attended the consortium.

The agenda included reports and discussions on topics as follows: the general situation of NIC business, the current situation of NIC enrolment policies, CDN Client Server technological programs based on IETF, the current situation of IDN Admin Guideline, and the current situation of CDN unicode integration.

During the consortium, reports from NIC of various countries led the enthusiastic discussions among participators and reviewed the consensus of CDNC to IDN Workshop and JET relevant agenda reports. Among which, the current situation and future development of CDNC unicode were concerned by the participators, and also one of the important issues for future IDN development.

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n The 15th15th APNIC Open Policy Meeting in Taipei

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The 15th15th Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) Open Policy Meeting just ended on 28^th FebruaryFeb 282003, 2003. Since four positions on the APNIC Executive Council (EC) became vacant in March 2003, an open election to fill these vacancies took place at the APNIC Annual Member Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday 28 February 28^th Feb2003. The successful candidates were: Qian Hualin (CNNIC Steering Committee), Kuo-Wei Wu (TWNIC Steering Committee), Ma Yan (China Education and Research Network executive committee), Yong Wan Ju (KRNIC Manager) and so on. For information on current EC members and the role of the EC please refer to the Executive Council web page (http://www.apnic.net/meetings/15/ec/index.html)APNIC website (www.apnic.net).

n 2003 APIA - APRICOT Exco Meeting in Taipei

The APIA-APRICOT Exco Meeting held on 24^th Feb 2003 in TICC, Taipei was attended by Ole Jacobsen, Pindar Wong, Wendy Liew, Philip Smith, James Seng, Kyoko Day, Abhisak Chulya, Toru Takahashi. Paul Wilson, BK Kim and have made the following resolutions:

2 Resolution 1: Appointment of APIA - APRICOT Secretarial

2 Resolution 2:The APIA board resolves to rename the current APRICOT Exco to APRICOT Advisory Committee.

2 Resolution 3:The APIA board resolves to form a new APIA Management Committee (MC)

2 Resolution 4: The APIA board, together with the APRICOT Exco, express theirs sincere appreciation to Kyoko Day for her contributions to APIA and APRICOT during her term, ending 31^st March 2003, as APIA General Secretarial.

For more information please refer to APIA website (www.apia.org).

n 2003 APTLD AGM in Taipei

The 2003 APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain) Annual General Meeting (AGM) just ended successfully in Taipei on 24^th Feb. The newly elected Secretariat, TWNIC, pointed out that in the coming year APTLD will dedicate for three objectives, including confirming the corporate qualifications of APTLD, enhancing the connection of internal network, and pursuing the connection and cooperation with important global network organizations.

The 2003 APTLD AGM in Taipei reelected the new board of directors, the name list is as follows: chairman: Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah (Malaysia); three vice chairmen: Peter Dengate Thrush (New Zealand), Yumi Ohashi (Japan), Chan-ki Park (South Korea); other directors: Chris Disspain (Australia), Hualin Qian (China), Richard St. Clair (Nauru), Vincent WS Chen (Taiwan). The term of service for directors of Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Taiwan is 2 years, and the term for other directors is one year. Next reelection will be held in 2004. In 2003, APTLD will hold 4 conferences. Besides the Taipei annual conference, the other three will be held in Malaysia (or Singapore), Busan, Korea and New Zealand. For more information please refer to APTLD website (www.aptld.org).

n The 10^th CDNC/JET in Taipei

The 10^th Chinese Domain name Consortium (CDNC) just held from 24^th to 28^th Feb in Taipei International Convention Center. Nearly 30 participators from CNNIC, TWNIC, MONIC and HKNIC attended this consortium. During the consortium, participators discussed about hot issues such as general affairs of NIC business, the current situation of NIC registry policies, CDN Client Server technology solutions in accordance with IETF standard, the development of IDN Admin Guideline and the integration of CDN variant table. They focused especially on the current situation and future development of CDNC variant table. This topic is also one of the important issues for future IDN development. For more information please refer to CDNS website (cdns.twnic.net.tw).

n 2003 APSIRC in Taipei

2003 Asia Pacific Security Incident Response Coordination Conference (APSIRC) was just successfully held on 24^th Feb. The distinguished guest, Minister of State of the Republic of China, Ching-Yen Tsay, delivered the key note speech to 135 participators from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Hot issues such as Incident and Vulnerability trends in the Asia Pacific Region, Regional Activities in the Asia & Pacific, Progress in Auto incident response systems in Korea, Recent Training Activities and Requirements on the CSIRT's training, the network security and weakness trend in the Asia Pacific Region were discussed at the conference. The conference also introduced anti-virus experiences of the American Computer Emergency Response Center, information security issues, suggestions and methods of the European Union, and announced the latest training activities and the brief introduction of demands. For more information please refer to TWCERT website (www.twcert.org.tw).

n AP* Retreat in Taipei (Feb. 22-23)

AP* Retreat (Asia Pacific Star Retreat) just ended successfully in Taipei from 22^nd to 23^rd Feb. The Internet organizations such as APN, APAN, APNIC, APIA, APOPS/APRICOT, APTLD, APCAUCE/AP Net abuse, APjtsec attended the retreat. Each organization in the retreat presented an annual report about the activities it carried out in 2002 and shared operation experiences with other organizations. During the 2-day conference, each organization also aimed at issues such as APjtsec funding, collective collaboration mechanisms, Internet schools , E-Learning projects, Broadband development in AP, AP Internet Security efforts/projects, AP Net Abuse, Laws, Policies, Services and Technology to present speeches and exchange opinions. For more information please refer to APNG website (www.apstar.org).

n The 3rd APNG Camp in Taipei (Feb. 20-21)

The 3rd Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp (APNG Camp) just ended successfully in Taipei from 20^th to 21^st Feb. TWNIC honorably hosted this APNG Camp. 73 participators of his camp were from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Singapore, Australia, Thailand and Germany.

The participators focused their topics on on-line virtual communities, on-line games, and gender issues of virtual world to structure a social issue derived from new-generation network users. Young people from various countries aimed at these issues and put forward the current usage and development in their own countries, and exchanged appearances and problems when using the network enthusiastically with other participators.

With the assistance of the videoconference services, the participators at Taipei Venue also connected with the young people from Mainland China, Korea and Germany, and directly discussed hot topics such as virtual societies, role-plays, and gender issues when using the network with local participators, and aroused an enthusiastic response.

The next APNG will be held in Busan, Korea in August. It can be expected that with the tradition of this camp, the topics and themes of Busan camp will be more diversified. For more information please refer to APNG website (www.apng.org).