Asia

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Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)

• AP Meeting in Shanghai
• August 2002
• Kyoko Day
• Secretary General

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Contents

• Summary of 2001
• Summary of 2002
• Membership
• Activities
• Current Undertaking
• APIA APRICOT
• Strategic Focus and Plans for 2002/3

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Summary of 2001

• 2001 Characterized by Rethinking Refocus
• Further deterioration in economic environment
• Declining membership and revenue
• Forced us to change our strategies
• examined existing services, sought out new
  revenue sources and re-structuring the
  organization
• Strategy focused on strategic alliances
• by combining our resources, can accomplish more
• AP organizations, MoU with other regional
  Internet Assoc
• US Chamber of Commerce, Conference endorsement

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Summary - 2002 (up to now)

• The negative economic trend continued
• Strategies still focused on alliance/partnership
• Sought advice from the various stakeholders
• Change of Chairperson
• Hiro Hotta to Toru Takahashi at the end of Jan
  2002
• Relocation of the Secretariat Office
• Co-locate with Iajapan since February 02

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Membership (as of 8/26/02)

• Members
• 2 Large, 4 Small, 2 LDC/NPO, and 9 Individuals
• Type of members
• ISPs, national Internet association, RIR,
  research org, domain name registry, conference
  mgt service, national NIC, and individuals
• Restructuring funding scheme and new sources of
  funding are critical for survival
• Individual membership operating expenses

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Activities in 2002 (up to now)

• Endorsed Conferences
• APRICOT 2002 as a Gold sponsor
• sharing complimentary registrations with
  individuals who are in need (East Timor, China,
  Nepal for 2002)
• CommunicAsia-SG held in June 2002
• Published Newsletter 7/8 and e-Update
• 7/8 featuring AP org. and IXs
• 9 - to be published later this year

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Activities of 2002 (cont - 1)

• Coordination effort with AP ap-star Org
• APNG, APNIC, APAN, APNIC, APTld, MINC, APOPS,
  APDIP, AP Outreach, and APRICOT
• Articles in APIA Newsletters
• AGM at APRICOT 2002
• Presented a Proposal to APRICOT
• APIA provide a legal umbrella to APRICOT
• Open Discussion at AGM in March
• Open Discussion at IETF in July

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Activities of 2002 (cont - 2)

• Forums at APRICOT 2002 (73 participants)
• Internet Industry Country Report
• TW, KR, SG, HK, JP, CN, NZ, MY, and KH
• IX Panel Discussion
• IX Activities Continued
• Additional meeting at IETF in Yokohama
• objective is security and targeting major IXs
• Workshop planned AP Outreach program
• Seeking source of funding

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Activities of 2002 (cont - 3)

• Meeting during IETF in Yokohama
• IX Operators Forum with the major IXs on 7/16
• APIA - APRICOT Joint Meeting on 7/17
• APIA APRICOT Reached a Consensus
• to merge the two body
• to fill APIA Board with stakeholders from APRICOT
• The new APIA Board will lead the way to move
  forward

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Current Undertaking

• APIA - APOPS Jointly Organized Forums
• 2-day forum on 2 3 Sept in Kokura, Japan
• Topics on Internet Security, Wireless LAN, IPv6,
  and IX
• Merging with APRICOT
• APIA APRICOT Joint Meeting will be held on 2
  Sept to discuss about the next steps
• This is a Huge Responsibility for APIA
• APIA provides legal umbrella for APRICOT

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APIA APRICOT Update

• 4 New APIA Board
• Abhisak Chulya, Yong Wan Ju, James Seng , and
  Philip Smith
• Selection Based on
• Recommendations by the Members/APRICOT Exco
• The Next Steps
• Elect Officers
• Meet in Kokura next week

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APIA APRICOT Update (cont)

• Priorities set for the Interim Board (as Pindar
  stated)
• Stabilize APRICOT Internal Operation
• be able to deliver a consistent quality event
• minimize financial and operational risks
• Strategic Focus and Plans for APRICOT
• refine value proposition to participants and
  sponsors
• create the ability to scale year after year
• A Success of APRICOT 2003

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Strategic Focus for 2002

• Problems and Issues
• financial - negative economic environment and
  funding model
• management - human resources
• Strategies - Partnership
• emphasis on collaboration and coordination
• especially with AP organization, Industry Assoc,
  NICs
• Also others, such as other Regional ISPA, ITU-T,
  APT, and IX operators in the US and Europe

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Plans for 2002

• The Next Steps - decided by the new Board
• Expected
• Focus, shift to APRICOT
• IX related forum to be continued
• Continued collaboration with other organizations
  and individuals experts
• Formal Election at the next AGM in Taipei

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Thank you.Look forward for more collaboration
with AP Org

• Http//www.apia.org
• email to -
• apia-sec_at_apia.org