From APNIC, announcment on WP

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

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Subject:
        [apnic-talk] <<RELEASE>> APIA Welcomes US White Paper
   Date:
        Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:57:28 +0800
   From:
        Izumi Aizu <izumi@anr.org>
     To:
        (Recipient list suppressed)




Below is APIA's Position Statement on US White Paper on Internet Governance.



Press Release                                                   For Immediate
Release


                                Contact: Margie Ong, APIA Secretariat,
apia-sec@apia.org

Tel: +65-738-6929

Fax: +65-738-7839

Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA) welcomes the Policy Statement of the
US Government
regarding Internet Domain Name and Address administration, especially the
proposal to form a new,
private, not-for-profit international corporation, the effort to ensure global
representation and to
accommodate other jurisdictions.


15 June 1998, Singapore - Asia and Pacific Internet Association (APIA) welcomed
the new
announcement on 5th of June 1998 of the Statement of Policy of the US Government
titled
"Management of Internet Names and Addresses". APIA in particular recognizes the
formation of a
private, international corporation to ensure private-sector-driven governance,
the effort to ensure global
representation in the formation of the Board of the "New Corporation," and the
accommodations of
other jurisdictions than that of the US. Furthermore, APIA applauds the efforts
of the US Government
in seeking the best use of the .us domain towards its commercial uses.

APIA recognizes that the Policy Statement reflects many issues raised by the AP
region Internet
community, especially those voiced by APIA. APIA has filed its response to the
Notice of Inquiry by
Department of Commerce on DNS Management in August 1997, and its comments on the
"Green
Paper" on Technical Management of Internet Domain Names and Addresses by
Department of
Commerce of the US Government in March 1998.

APIA has noted several concerns in its comments, which include the legitimacy on
the trademark
dispute resolution mechanisms, the issue of proper regional representation in
setting out new policy and
the need for private sector leadership. APIA recognizes that most of these
issues are adequately
reflected in the Policy Statement, though there are a few issues that remain to
be seen in the process
of realization.

"The Policy Statement seems to have tried to balance between the stability of
the Internet and the
imposing of transparent, private-sector-driven, and globally-represented
administration of the domain
names, " says Dr. Jin Ho Hur, Chair of the Board of APIA. Dr. Hur continues,
"The Policy Statement
has recognized the past and on-going self-regulating efforts of the Internet
community, has left more
issues to be decided by the "New Corporation" which will allow more
private-sector-driven policy
decisions, and has put considerable emphases on the global representations and
the accommodations
for jurisdictions other than that of the US. Though not all the issues
concerning the AP Internet
community have been fully addressed, APIA recognizes that the Policy Statement
has a reasonable
balance between the stability of Internet and the regional representation. These
policies would help the
development of sustainable administrative structure for domain names, and in a
longer term, a s!
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inable Internet governance."

Mr. Izumi Aizu, Secretary General of APIA says "The White Paper offers more
opportunity for our
region to participate in the process of global governance of the Internet. We
appreciate Mr. Ira
Magaziner and his staff's efforts including his participation to our open
meeting held in February this
year in Manila. We also would like to mention that so many people in this region
seriously tried to take
part the process to offset so called "US-centricism". Now, APIA is willing to
support the formation of
the "New Corporation" to secure that our voices from the region will be
adequately incorporated;
APIA is ready to represent the commercial Internet community in Asia Pacific
region towards fair,
sustainable, and open governance structure. It's time to move things forward."


Contact

Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA) is a trade association dedicated to
promote the business
interest of the Internet-related service industry in Asia Pacific region. APIA
was founded in May 1997
based on the discussions and activities of a few leaders of the AP-region
Internet industry, who have
taken the leading role in the early stage development of the AP-region Internet
industry. APIA has
members from all over the world, not limited to the AP-region, that share the
mission of APIA. APIA
has grown from a fledging organization in May 1997, to having about 32 members
and six founding
members which are Inet Inc. of Korea, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Ascend
Communications,
NTT of Japan, and Hong Kong Telecommunications. APIA now focuses mostly on the
policy and
regulatory issues and the industry issues with regard to a better environment
for the AP-region Internet
industry.

Any parties interested in APIA activities can refer to http://www.apia.org or
send e-mail inquiries to
apia-inquiry@apia.org.

- END --

[note from Izumi - I recently became Secreatry General of APIA, as of
June 1. 1998 - another Press Release is available for this]

             < < <  Izumi Aizu   <izumi@anr.org>   > > >
Secretary General, Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
                        (http://www.apia.org)
    Principal, Asia Network Research (ANR) Sdn. Bhd.
      Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  ( http://www.anr.org)
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