19th APNIC Open Policy Meeting report
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APNIC 19, held in Kyoto from 21 February to 25 February 2005 in
conjunction with APRICOT 2005, was a successful meeting. A total of
around 800 delegates attended APRICOT 2005, and many APNIC members were
able to take advantage of the wide choice of sessions available.
The APNIC Annual Member Meeting (AMM) on 25 February 2005 was also well
attended, with 113 (including APNIC staff) delegates representing 19
economies and 33 APNIC member organisations. Delegates from the other
RIRs (ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE NCC) were also present.
1. Executive Council election
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An official announcement was made at the APNIC 19 in Kyoto on Friday 25
February 2005 regarding the four vacancies on the APNIC Executive
Council (EC). There were ten candidates for the positions. The
successful candidates were:
[alphabetical order]
Hualin Qian
Kuo-Wei Wu
Moo-Ho Billy Cheon
Yan Ma
Details of the nominations received for the EC positions are available
at:
The meeting minutes will be available shortly on the APNIC website. A
summary of the main Open Policy Meeting decisions is provided below.
All the consensus proposals below were approved at the APNIC Member
Meeting.
Policy SIG
Proposal prop-027-v001: the second phase of large space IPv4
trial usage program for future IPv6 deployment
- There was consensus on the proposal to start the second phase
of the on-going trial program operated by IPv6 Promotion
Council of Japan for future IPv6 deployment by utilising
historically allocated IPv4 space.
Database SIG
Proposal prop-026-v001: APNIC to publish address assignment
statistics
- There was consensus on the proposal for APNIC to collect and
publish the number of assignments registered in APNIC Whois
Database. Details of the implementation still to be discussed.
These policy proposals will now be circulated on the appropriate SIG
mailing list. The full list of current proposals is available at:
APNIC's Annual Report, presented at the Annual Member Meeting, details
the activities of APNIC and the Secretariat during 2004. The Annual
Report will be mailed to APNIC members and friends shortly. It can also
be accessed online at:
Apster is a print and online newsletter for the APNIC community. The
thirteenth issue of Apster was released at APNIC 19. This issue
features articles on Internet governance, DNSSEC, the next round of Pan
Asia grants, and status reports on the implementation of APNIC projects
such as the cleanup of lame DNS delegations. Apster is available online
at:
APNIC wishes to thank all those organisations that supported APNIC 19
as sponsors. Their valuable contributions allowed APNIC to offer a
meeting programme of a very high standard. All the sponsors are listed
at:
If you are interested in being a sponsor for a future APNIC meeting,
please contact meetings at apnic dot net.
6. Next APNIC meeting - APNIC 20
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All APNIC members and friends are invited to attend APNIC 20, which
will be held in Hanoi in late August 2005. Further details of APNIC 20
will be available shortly at:
Best regards
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APNIC Secretariat <secretariat at apnic dot net>
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61-7-3858-3100
PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia Fax: +61-7-3858-3199
Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD http://www.apnic.net
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