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APTLD Bi-monthly e-Newsletter / September 2003 |
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Contents1. What’s New2. Members’ Corner3. Future Meetings |
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=====1. What’s New (1 August 2003 – 30 September 2003) |
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Next APTLD Meeting will be
held on 21~23 November at Wellington, New Zealand
Next APTLD meeting
will be held on 21~23 November at Wellington, New Zealand. 21 and 22 will be
technical workshop, and 23 will be Member Meeting and Board Meeting. Detailed
information on meeting agenda will be announced soon on the website. APTLD
Busan Meeting
In conjunction with
several AP meetings held at Busan, Korea, APTLD Members’ and Board Meeting
were scheduled on 23rd August at that same city. Several key issues including
membership recruitment, Technical Committee establishment, confirmation on
the tasks of Membership Committee and Crossover Observership with CENTR, were
fully discussed. Reports on current international status were also presented
such as ICANN ccNSO LG, Regional At-Large Organisation/Structure, Deployment
of IDN and WSIS. (more) Next ICANN Meetings at Carthage,
Tunisia
The third round of
ICANN meetings in 2003 will be held 27-31 October in Carthage, Tunisia. The
meetings will be hosted by the Tunisian Internet Agency. More information
regarding the venue and the meeting agenda can be found at www.icanncarthage.tn
and www.icann.org/carthage. Pre-registration for the meeting
is now open. ccTLD Carthage
Meetings will also be held during ICANN Meetings. Meetings are pre-scheduled on
26-28 October 2003. The meeting agenda will be announced soon by the ccTLD
Temporary Secretariat. (more) ccNSO LG Calls for Membership
Applications
The Launching Group
has published a call for membership applications on 26 August. 31 ccTLDs have
submitted the applications since then. 7 of these are from the Asia Pacific region. According to the
ICANN Bylaw, the ccNSO LG needs to recruit at least 30 members, 4 form each
region, to start ccNSO operation and council election. Currently, Europe and
North America haven’t yet reached the minimum numbers of member applications.
(more) AP* Retreat Busan Meeting
AP* Retreat held a
meeting in Busan, Korea on 24 August. In addition to AP organisations’ status
reports, several issues such as “VoIP policies in ICANN
Submits Eighth Status Report to US Department of Commerce
This is the third quarterly report on ICANN’s progress toward achieving the objectives of the MOU between DOC and ICANN. (more) ICANN
and U.S. DoC Announce New Three-Year Agreement
On 17 September, ICANN and the United States Department of Commerce announced that they agreed to extend their joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for three additional years until September 30, 2006. (more) ITU-T
and ICANN to co-host workshop on .int TLD
Reaffirming their respective responsibilities, ICANN and the ITU-T look forward to co-hosting the upcoming workshop to develop recommendations on the management of the .int TLD. The workshop will be held in Geneva on 15-16 September. (more) Verisign's
Wildcard Service Deployment
Since 15 September 2003, VeriSign deployed a "wildcard"
service into the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones, several responses from
ICANN and Internet communities have been made regarding VeriSign's wildcard,
which creates a registry-synthesized address record in response to lookups of
domains that are not otherwise present in the zone. (more) |
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2. Members’ Corner (1 February 2003 – 31 March 2003) |
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from
.au |
18 September 2003 Bottle
Domains id.au offer breached Code of Practice auDA has found that a
"free gift" id.au offer by accredited registrar Bottle Domains was
in breach of the .au Domain Name Suppliers' Code of Practice. auDA requested
Bottle Domains to delete all the id.au domain names that were not taken up by
a customer, and send a corrective email to all recipients of the id.au offer.
(more) 15 September 2003 AusRegistry id.au "free trial" promotion AusRegistry has
launched a special promotion for id.au, the domain space for Australian
individuals. Up to 50,000 id.au domain names are being offered on a
"free trial" period for 6 months. Once the trial period is over,
the registrant must pay for their domain name licence if they wish to keep
it. (more) 27 August 2003 On 18 August 2003 auDA
issued legal proceedings at the Federal Court of Australia against Domain
Names Australia Pty Ltd (DNA) and its sole director, Chesley Paul Rafferty.
In those proceedings, auDA alleges that recent mail-outs by DNA were
misleading or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive, in breach of the
Trade Practices Act (TPA). (more) 6 August 2003 .au
domain registrations grow by 24% auDA today published a statistical analysis of the first 12 months of the new .au domain name regime. (more) |
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from
.cn |
26 September 2003 The
Symposium on Information Statistics of the Internet in Asia-Pacific Region
held at Beijing CNNIC held the
Symposium on Information Statistics of the Internet in Asia-Pacific Region on
26-27 September at Beijing. The Symposium aimed to share information on the
current status of regional and national Internet development and the method
of Internet statistics of each country. (more information in the Simplified Chinese Version)
August 2003 CNNIC
published Internet Connection Map of China CNNIC has recently
published the 2nd quarter Internet Connection Map of China, 2003.
The figure shows that China’s international bandwidth has grown to 18,599M
until the end of June 2003. CNNIC will continuously conduct the survey every
season in order to provide an better understanding of bandwidth development
in China. (more information in the
Simplified Chinese Version) 8 August 2003 First
Survey Report on China’s Internet Development published CNNIC recently published a survey report on China’ s
Internet development. It is the first report presenting an overall picture of
China’s Internet development since 1994. In addition to 2002 status report,
the report also includes relevant Internet laws, regulations and policies
until February 2003. (more information in the
Simplified Chinese Version) |
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from
.hk |
21 August 2003 Joint
Promotion Between HKDNR and Hongkong Post Certification Authority to e-Cert
(Personal) Holders HKIRC with its
wholly-owned operating arm, HKDNR, is pleased to announce in association with
Hongkong Post Certification Authority the launch of the joint promotion on
Individual Domain Name (“.idv.hk”) to Hongkong Post e-Cert (Personal)
holders. (more) 18 August 2003 HKDNR has currently
launched a special offer with Hongkong Post exclusively to their e-Cert
(Personal) holders. From now on till end of Year 2003, all Hongkong Post
e-Cert (Personal) holders are eligible to enjoy an additional one-year annual
fee waived for their e-Cert (Personal) service once they have successfully
registered Individual Domain Names (“.idv.hk”). (more) |
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from
.jp |
10 September 2003 Establishment of "ENUM
Trial Japan (ETJP)" JPRS works jointly with
Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and WIDE Project toward the
establishment of "ENUM Trial Japan (ETJP)" as one of its founders.
(more) 4 September 2003 Service Migration Schedule of
Japanese JP Domain Name As a result of
standardization of IDN, RFCs were published on 7 March 2003. In accordance
with the standardization, Punycode was adopted as the RACE encoding.
Currently, application softwares have been in the process of transition into
Punycode based version and the diagram of service migration schedule has been
published. (more) |
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from
.kr |
27 August 2003 The
16th APNIC Open Policy Meeting and Korea Internet Operation Workshop 2003 The 16th APNIC (Asia
Pacific Network Information Center) Open Policy Meeting in Seoul, a gathering
where general discussions regarding Internet address policies in the Asia Pacific
region are held, and Korea Internet Operation Workshop 2003, an event where
Internet operation specialists from all over the world gather in the name of
securing Internet stability, got off to a start on their four day long
schedule with a grand opening ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in Jamsil on the
19th of August, 19:00 hours. (more) 27 August 2003 Receiving over 4000
registration requests on the very first day of Hangeul.KR's commencement of
service, there has been a staggering amount of interest shown in Korean based
domains. Since Hangeul.KR registrations for designations of public
institutions and registered trademarks and brands began on August 19th, KRNIC
(President Song Kwan-ho) has seen registration requests flooding-in in
volumes so large that it even slowed down traffic to come registration agents'
sites. (more) 27 August 2003 KRNIC
Introduces Root Mirror & .com, .net Domain Top-Level DNS A top-level name server
that services .com, .net, and other domains will also be situated in South
Korea. With a general agreement of placing Root (Mirror) and .com,
.net, gTLD DNS sites at the Korea Network Information Center, KRNIC and
Verisign has held a ceremony in commemoration of their operation contract at
Chosun Hotel among Ministry of Information and Communication officials 12th
this month. (more) 27 August 2003 Launch
of Hangeul.KR Addresses on the 19th The Ministry of
Information and Communication has announced on the 7th of its intent to
commence the 'Korean Domain Execution Plan,' a plan that utilizes the Korean
language for domain names, on the 19th through South Korea's Internet address
management agency - Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC). (more) 27 August 2003 Results
from June 2003 Informatization Status Survey Refer to 'Internet
Statistics Report' from the Internet Statistics Homepage for a digest of June
2003 Informatization Status Survey. (more) |
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from
.nu |
23 June 2003 Polynesian Island of Niue the
First Free Wireless Nation Wireless HotSpot
Launched in South Pacific Island of Niue. (more) |
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from
.nz |
26 September 2003 Patent-watching
system proposed InternetNZ’s patent
advisory group hopes to establish a new system for monitoring patent applications.
(more) 26 September 2003 InternetNZ
Consultation Workshops on 02~03 October 2003 InternetNZ has arranged
meetings in Wellington and Auckland for members to discuss the strategic
plan, the cyberlaw proposal, and ccNSO of ICANN application which are also
included in the package. (more) 18 September 2003 InternetNZ
Code of Practice (CoP) for ISPs more complex than supposed The InternetNZ Code of
Practice (CoP) for ISPs is likely to be more multifaceted, complex and
expensive to implement than first thought, says executive director Peter
Macaulay. (more) 4 September 2003 An opportunity for
those in the NZ Internet industry to discuss solutions to the problem of
spam. Workshop will be held on 04 September 2003. (more) 3 September 2003 InternetNZ is
considering the establishment of a research fellowship at Victoria University
to help it get a head start on the next big internet-related legal issue. (more) 1 September 2003 Frame
Anti-spam Law Carefully says InternetNZ White Paper Anti-spam legislation
is virtually certain one day, suggests Pegasus Mail founder and InternetNZ
councillor David Harris, in a white paper on the spam problem for InternetNZ.
(more) 20 August 2003 InternetNZ has
announced the sale of Domainz for NZ$2 million (subject to normal settlement
date adjustments and warranties) to Melbourne IT. (more) 1 August 2003 Spam is coming under
pressure from industry groups and end users alike. InternetNZ and the Direct
Marketing Association are reviewing their positions on the problem. (more) |
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from
.ph |
03 September 2003 dotPH
launches a redesigned, more user-friendly www.dot.ph In the case of the
DotPH (www.dot.ph) site, a revamp was exactly what was needed to make searching
for and registering a domain more intuitive for our clients. (more) 20 August 2003 We've had a lot of
people want to use their free domains for email but didn't know how to set up
an MX. These folks weren't interested in setting up a website just yet but wanted
personalized e-mail addresses (like your-name@your-domain.ph).
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from
.tw |
29 September 2003 TWNIC Calls for Proposal on the Chinese Domain Name Dispute Resolution In order to resolve the possible domain name dispute after launching the updated IDN-standardized Chinese domain name registration service, TWNIC is calling for proposals on the Chinese domain name dispute resolution, which will be used as reference to the current “TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution”. TWNIC is planning to launch the IDN-standardized Chinese domain name registration service in November. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version) 23 September TWNIC Calls for Comments on Guideline for ASCII.tw English Domain Name Registration Service For providing Internet communities more complete registration service, TWNIC has draft a guideline for launching ASCII.tw English domain name registration service. A hearing will be organized later for collecting Internet Communities’ suggestions which will be used for the guideline amendment. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version) 18 August 2003 Survey
shows that Taiwan’s Internet Population has reached 11.75 million After 6 months
preparation and investigation, TWNIC has completed a survey on boardband and
wireless usage in Taiwan and presented to public. The survey shows that Taiwan’s
Internet population has grown up to 11.75 million; its percentage has reached
to 57.23% of the total population. Boardband usage has become more common.
About 9.3 million people use broadband to connect to Internet service. (more) |
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From
.vn |
19 June 2003 Vietnam
now has 5 levels of Internet domain name This is the recently-released
regulation of the Ministry of Posts and Telematics (MPT) of Vietnam for
better management and use of Internet resources in the country. (more) |
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Future Meetings (in August and
September)
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