[apnic-announce] Asia-Pacific Internet Association - President's Y2K Cou
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APNIC members and others on this list may be interested in the following
meeting, being organised by the APIA in conjunction with the current ICANN
conference.
Apologies for the *very* late notice.
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> The venue is set: (Meeting at the same location as ICANN)
>
> Sheraton Gateway Hotel
> 6101 West Century Blvd.
> Suite 214
> 04 November 1999
> 09:00 - 17:00
>
> Note: the Sheraton Hotel is sold out, see the ICANN web site for
> additional hotels http://wwww.icann.org/.
>
> The Program:
>
> Internet Y2K Wrap-up
>
> The Internet will be used to maintain communications during the transition
> from 1999 to 2000.
>
> The Internet will also be used for status reports, requests for
assistance,
> reports of late-breaking problems and solutions, and probably in ways we
> have not yet considered. Therefore, it is very important that we have
this
> meeting to get as many as possible involved in making sure the Internet is
> Y2K Ready and On-Time. Join us for the Wrap-up meeting of the
Asia-Pacific
> Internet Association Y2K Roadshow, Status/Update for the President's Y2K
> Council, and Internet Industry Status and Update for our Y2K efforts. The
> focus is Contingency Planning.
>
> All Internet Service Providers, those operating a name server and/or
domain
> registry, exchange points, network time servers, industry associations,
and
> government officials should take a quick look at
> http://www.cert.org/y2k/indmessage.html for a review of the upgrades and
> testing needed, anticipated problems and solutions, information
resources,
> time based problems (NTP), and suggestions for contingencies.
>
> Confirmed speakers (more are making arrangements):
> Bill Manning - USC, Information Sciences Institute
> Justin Newton - NetZero Director of Networking
> Mike Todd - ISOC Los Angeles Chapter (World-Wide Y2K Weekend)
> Robert Cannon - FCC
> Pat Burt - US Y2K Coordination Center
>
> The meeting room will seat ~100 - theater style
> two refreshment breaks are scheduled
>
> A follow-up (no more than a two page report) and electronic copies of the
> presentations will be made available to the APIA web site as well as the
> Presidential Y2K site. ICANN may want a link to this as well.
>
> Call for additional presentations on these subjects: Please send
> e-mail if you have a presentation for the agenda.
>
> Overall - to push the best effort to make Internet Operation Y2K ready
>
> A) Reach ccTLD Administrators, appeal them to make sure they will prepare
> ther DNS servers Y2K compliant
>
> B) Call critical Network Operators and coordinate Contingency Plans on
> global basis - make real working plan
>
> Target audience:
>
> for A)
> DNS Root server opertaors
> ccTLD Administrators and related people
> (mostly those who come to ICANN meeting)
>
> for B)
> Engineers in charge of network operations at critical points:
> Internet Y2K coordination team from each country/region
> International Backbone operators
> Major exchange points
> Major NAPs and NOCs
> AS network operators (ISP and others)
>
> Plus Relevant Vendors
>
> A) is more towards calling for 'social responsibility' for managers and
> administrators
>
> B) is very pragmatic content
> - to share information about Y2K readiness in each country/region
> - to produce Global Contingency Plan and make final confirmation
> - make contact list of key operators for Y2K conversion
> - prepare procedures/information template for emergency report
> - discuss and prepare basic procedures/rules for network operation
> policy in the event of any unexpected function of Internet
services/traffic.
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