RE: [apnic-talk] Re: [JPNIC intl-wg 243] Re: comments on legal documents
On Sunday, May 17, 1998 11:59 PM, David R. Conrad[SMTP:davidc at apnic dot net] wrote:
@Obata-san,
@
@>Although I understand the difficulty in establishing an organization which
@>works for the interests of an international community consisting of a wide
@>range of differences, I think the structure proposed, especially the
@>business part, is too complicated to understand and to be sure that it will
@>work well.
@
@I would point out that APNIC has operated under this structure since April,
@1996...
@
There are many ways to structure "NICs". It is not clear to me
that they need to be elaborate companies with complex legal
and financial structures and high-priced services. The following
proposal reminds me of the fact that some of the people in the
Registry Industry that I am working with intend to try to preserve
the IS, RS, DS model. It is good to see that it was once proposed
for APNIC. It could be used today and migth save everyone a
lot of time and money.
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ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-007.txt
APNIC-007.0 T. Park
Project Proposal December 1993
Proposal for Distributed APNIC Operations
Issued: December 8, 1993
Expires: Not Applicable
1. Overview
KRNIC proposes to operate APNIC as a collaborative project between
national NIC's in Asia Pacific region. The collaboration will be similar
to the Internic operations, categorizing operations into the following
- Registration Services (RS) (rs.apnic.net)
- Directory and Database Services (DS) (ds.apnic.net)
- Information Services (IS) (is.apnic.net)
This is a first step of extending current NIC hierarchy of
Global NIC - Regional NIC - National NIC
into three hierarchies
Global RS - Regional RS - National RS
Global DS - Regional DS - National DS
Global IS - Regional IS - National IS
The most urgent service should be RS, and APNIC pilot project has
been focusing on this issue. DS can be supported using raw data copy of
RS. IS can be supported more independently from other services. By
operating APNIC by multiple national NICs, the funding overhead of each
NIC's can be distributed and it can promote collaboration in this
region.
Korea Network Information Center is willing to support one of APNIC
services for 2 years (1994-1995) or more. Full funding support will be
done by Korean government as a research project.
2. APNIC Support by KRNIC
Funding support will be done by National Computerization Agency
(NCA) of Korea for two years, including full-time and half time staffs,
equipments, active meeting participation, and the stable connection to
the Internet.
APNIC staff full-time
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APNIC staff(s) part-time
secretary half-time
APNIC staffs will actively participate to relevant meetings such as
IETF, APCCIRN, and INET conference.
3. Description on APNIC Services
3.1 Primary Services
- Registration Services
This is the most important service of APNIC and APNIC will guarantee
the quality of service it provides including response time, stability
of connection to APNIC machines, and fairness and openness of the
registry function.
- Directory and Database Services
Directory and network management database will be maintained.
Included are person of contact, IP networks, DNS domains and routing
information. WHOIS and X.500 will be deployed for this purpose.
- Information Services (APNIC document store)
APNIC will generate and collect network information especially on
Asia-Pacific region. The information will be provided by the APNIC
server machine using various mechanisms such as anonymous ftp, gopher
and WWW.
3.2 Optional Services
- routing registry (route server)
- DNS coordination
- assistance for national NIC set up (e.g. sabatical programs)
- quarterly report
4. Remarks
- APNIC members and APNIC operation team
APNIC operation team will have the responsiblity to APNIC members
(NIC-representatives from APCCIRN countries) via appropriate means such
as reporting at meetings, periodic newsletter, mailing lists and so on.
Critical decisions will be done by the concensus of APNIC members.
- APNIC beyond September 1996
Before September 1996, decision on the next phase operational plan
of APNIC will be made, including stable funding support.
The default option will be the continuation of full funding support
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by national NIC's providing each services.
5. Author's Address
Taeha Park
Korea Network Information Center
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science
Taejon, 305-701, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-42-869-3554
Fax: +82-42-869-3510
Email: taeha at nic dot nm dot kr
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