APRICOT 98 - Update (Feb 16 through 22)
[Apologies for any duplicates.]
If you only go to one Internet conference a year, go to APRICOT (see
http://www.apricot.net).
Why?
If you are involved in the Internet industry (Telco, ISP, Services,
Equipment, Software, etc), APRICOT has the experts, conference topics,
operations meetings, and lots of opportunities to "network" with your peers
in the Internet community. APRICOT is a week packet with operational, working
group, interest group and other side meetings. These groups choose APRICOT
because it gathers all the key people together at one time in one place.
Here are some examples of some of the major meetings during APRICOT week. If
you know of other groups meeting during APRICOT week or wish to have your own
group meeting during APRICOT week, please contact the APRICOT Organization
Committee (apricot-oc at apnic dot net).
Barry Greene
APRICOT Organization Committee
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Asia & Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), the prime distributor of
TCP/IP addresses in the region, holds their Annual General Meeting during
APRICOT (Feb 22nd). This years poises to be interesting with the current
Secretary General - David Conrad - leaving for broader carrier opportunities.
The meeting is open to the APNIC members and public ($50 USD for lunch).
Further information can get retrieved at http://www.apnic.net.
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Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA) is the emerging Internet business
group in Asia and Pacific. A spin off from past APNG, APNIC, and APRICOT
activities, it works within the collective interest of it's members to insure
that the path for Internet commerce, business, and collaboration are
unobstructed. APIA is organizing the Internet business track - bring int some
of the best product managers in the region to exchange their views of how one
really makes money on the Internet. http://www.apia.org
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ISP Summit - Internet Infrastructure Financing Debate. APIA will be hold a
ISP Summit on the 21st Feb on Internet Infrastructure Financing. Combining
the aspects from two Asian styles of decision making, the ISP Summit will
combine a Oxford style grand debate with a quite power lunch to open dialog,
explore the issues and discover possible avenues for consensus. Further
information can be found on APIA's Web site: http://www.apia.org
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Asia & Pacific Networking Group (APNG) will also be holding it's annual
meeting and a series of seminars. APNG (http://www.apng.org) focuses on the
next wave of Internet technologies. It brings together the best Internet
researchers in Asia to share the latest updates in their field. This year
will focus on Internet 2 style Research and Education (R&E) backbones and
Internet security.
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Asia & Pacific Policy and Legal Forum (APPLe) will open a new chapter of
APRICOT with a who track dedicated to the Internet policy makers in the
region. APPLe will be hosting a Industry Roundtable Electronic Commerce. The
round table will consist of regulators and industry executive holding a
Harvard style discussion on the barrier to Electronic Commerce in the region.
Further information can be found on the APRICOT Web page.
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APOPS - Routing Issues, Internet eXchange Points, Bi-Lateral
interconnections, Regional Backbone updates, Regional router servers, etc.
etc. are some of a whole list of topics covered by the Asia & Pacific
Operations Special Interest Group. This meeting will concentrate on
strategies to cope with the dramatic bandwidth cost increase from the
currency crisis in Asia.
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Asia Pacific Women's Network - Some of the most influential women involved
with the Asia and Pacific Rim Internet community. They will be meet to
discuss issues effecting them in the region.
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*TLDs (Top Level Domain) DNS BOF. The *TLD BOF is a follow on to the BOF held
at the Kuala Lumpur APNIC meeting. The intent is to provide an informal
setting in which ISPs, National TLD organizations, Global TLD organizations,
and general Internet population interested in discussing national/global
top-level domain issues. The latest information about the gTLD and DNS root
developments will be discussed.
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PGP Key Signing Party. This BOF will be used for people to exchange ?Pretty
Good Privacy? public keys, meet, and discuss security/privacy issues in the
Asia & Pacific Internet community.
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Internet Telephony. Most PCs sold in Asia & Pacific today are loaded with
Internet Telephony software. It is a realty today. This BOF will be focus on
Internet Telephony dialog between ISPs and others in the region. It goes
beyond the conference session and builds on information people gained from
the conference to explore the next steps with Internet Telephony in Asia.
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Asia & Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) and APNG Security
Incident Response Coordination Working Group (APSIRC) will be having a
coordination meeting with all the FIRST and CERT teams in the region.
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