[Wg-rms] Stepping down from co-chair role

[Terry Manderson <terry@apnic.net>]

Dear Working Group Members,

Over the past few weeks I have been considering my position as co-chair 
of the working group and I have decided to step down from the role. The 
reason is simple, I have concerns about the perception of APNIC staff 
driving policy within the region. Clearly such perceptions should be 
avoided and policy or policy recommendations should be products of the 
community. I'm sure Shin will post a call for a new co-chair in the 
coming days.

In this case I will remain a participant of the working group, and 
offer any assistance or information I can which comes from my position 
in APNIC.

So far as the agenda for the working group in concerned, based on the 
outcome of the meeting at APNIC 22, initial focus should be given to 
prop-037 "Deprecation of email updates for APNIC Registry and whois 
data". If an outcome towards policy is desired for the Bali meeting, 
then there is requirement that a submission needs to be with the 
secretariat by 29 January 2007.

Now as a WG participant, I feel the RMS working group should consider 
the future of interactions between member systems (NIR & APNIC member) 
and the APNIC registry in light of all the possible future services and 
service improvements that may be offered by the secretariat.

With those interactions in mind clear and unbiased evaluation should be 
given to the various
problem statements that surround email submission and the customer 
experience.

Please also consider that prop-037 is just the starting point as review 
has been called for of the APNIC registry system including, but not 
limited to, privacy data concerns and DNS submission and generation. 
While prop-037 may end up being the focus for now, in your evaluation 
please don't be blinded by it thinking that this is only an email 
issue.

Cheers
Terry
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Terry Manderson                         email:      terry@apnic.net
Network Operations Manager, APNIC       sip:    info@voip.apnic.net
http://www.apnic.net                    phone:      +61 7 3858 3100