[apnic-talk] APPLe@APRICOT- Paying for the pacific links
APPLe@APRICOT (APRICOT- POLICY TRACK)
RE: INTERNATIONAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH FINANCING ISP ROUNDTABLE
You may be interested to note that Mr Leong Kheng Thai,
Director General of the Telecommunications Authority of
Singapore will a keynote speaker on the 5th March for APRICOT,
and he will speak about the issue of International Internet
Bandwidth Financing within APEC (Singapore is the proposing
economy who brought this issue up to APEC)
(Ms Esther Dyson, Chair of ICANN will the other keynote that
morning, speaking on Internet Governance issues)
Following his keynote, there will be an APPLe session on this
issue from 10.30-12.30 which will be co-chaired by the head of
the International Affairs Department of TAS (Ms Valerie
D'Costa) who is also the upcoming Chair of the APEC Telecom
Working Group.
The session will be set up as an ISP roundtable session where
we will have invited ISP representatives and the rest will be
open discussion.
Let me know if you are an ISP coming to APRICOT, who would like
to participate or speak in this session. I will ensure you will
have time to have your views heared.
Given that this meeting will be held the week before the APEC
meeting in Misayaki, Japan, it is hoped that we can collect as
many ISP views from this region as possible for input to the
APEC meeting in Misayaki. Many of you may be coming to APRICOT,
BUT may not be planning to be in the APEC meeting in Misayaki.
We will arrange for the session to be transcribed so that your
input can be recorded and distributed.
Please support this effort to have your views on this issue
heared. Keep a date with us- Room 201, Suntec City, 5th March,
10.30-12.30, Singapore.
For more information about APRICOT, please check
www.apng.org/apricot99 and if interested in registering for
this roundtable session, please send me e-mail at
laina at getit dot org or call Ms Margie Ong at 738 6929 in Singapore.
(APPLE@APRICOT IS SPONSORED BY THE COMMERCIAL INTERNET
EXCHANGE)
For your further information on other APPLe@APRICOT sessions,
we will be posting details on the APPLe website shortly. A
brief description is as follows:
2.00- 3.30 ISP liability for Intellectual Property Rights
(includes trademark and domain name issues, and copyrights)
3.30-4.00- break
4.00- 5.30 ISP liability for content (censorship, privacy,
spamming, etc)
Hope to see you at APPLe@APRICOT (POLICY TRACK), 5TH MARCH,
SUNTEC CITY, SINGAPORE.
REgards,
Laina Raveendran Greene
Chair/Facilitator
Asia Pacific Policy and Legal (APPLe) Forum
(www.apng.org/apple or www.getit.org/apple/html/apple.html)
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