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["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:30:21 +0900
To: Tan Tin Wee <tinwee@irdu.nus.edu.sg>
From: ajp@glocom.ac.jp (Adam Peake)
Subject: Re: Asia Pacific response to US ON INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES ??
Cc: apcctld-announce@apng.org, apcctld-discussion@apng.org,
        Laina Raveendran Greene <laina@SINGNET.COM.SG>,
        Mathias Koerber <mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg>,
        Aizu Izumi <izumi@anr.org>, Kilnam Chon <chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr>,
        "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>,
        Haruhisa Ishida <ishida@ascii.co.jp>,
        Pindar Wong <pindar@hk.super.net>,
        Shigeki Goto <goto@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp>,
        Toru Takahashi <toru@iaj.or.jp>, Xing Li <xing@ocean.net.edu.cn>,
        Lawrence Law <cclaw@uxmail.ust.hk>,
        Suguru Yamaguchi <suguru@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>, michael@nii.ncb.gov.sg,
        Agnes Lee <agneslee@nic.net.sg>,
        Chee Yeow Meng <ymchee@nii.ncb.gov.sg>
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Tin Wee, thanks for opening this discussion.

Answer B!

However, I think it would probably be a mistake for any organization,
be it APNG, APIA, APccTLD (APNIC, etc.), to make any statement that
attempts to speak for AP region (the "AP region will...")

The Commerce Department's June 5th paper, the White Paper, goes to
great lengths to ask that the international community of Internet
stakeholders work together to establish the new non-profit corporation.
It requires that the new corporation be truly representative, that its
decision making processes be transparent, open, fair, pro-competitive,
etc.  The White Paper challenges us, the "Internet community", to
govern ourselves in a manner that is representative of *all*
stakeholders.

If any a statement were to be issued I think it should be that the
existing AP* organizations (or a listed number of AP* organizations, it
is difficult to pretend to represent all, and some may have their own
interests to consider first) will work to solicit participation of
Internet stakeholders of the Asia Pacific region in forming rough
consensus on how best to represent the region to the new corporation,
interim board, and various supporting councils that have been proposed
by the White Paper on the "Management of Internet Names and Addresses".


I hope that the AP* organizations and individuals who have been so
active and successful in promoting the development of the Internet in
the region will use their energies to meet the challenge laid down by
the White Paper and begin trying to identify truly representative
voices for the region.

How can we begin to identify stakeholders?
How can we begin dialogue among (some of) them?

It makes the mind "boggle" to try and begin to think of all who
should be involved!

>From the Wall Street Journal:

> The report [White Paper] doesn't specify who will be on that crucial
> panel, which will assume the power of doling out real estate in
> cyberspace. That is likely to set off a scramble among nations,
> businesses and Internet gurus jockeying for influence.

No scrambling or jockeying please :-)

Thanks,

Adam

Adam Peake
GLOCOM  Tokyo


At 3:25 PM 98.6.9, Tan Tin Wee wrote:
> Dear colleagues
>
> Should the APccTLD and/or APNG have a response to the following
> press remarks by the Dept of Commerce and the policy statement
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm ??
>
> Just to be proactive, I have included possible responses below
> for your discussion and feedback:
> a. AP region welcomes the avoidance of any drastic measures to
>    change the system and welcomes the promotion of stability
>    in the transitional process of the governance of
>    the Internet Domain Name System.
> b. AP region will support with nominees to constitute adequate AP
>    representation in the new organisation that oversees the
>    formation of a private corporation to manage the DNS registration.
> c. AP region encourages AP organisations and companies to participate
>    in the process of forming the new private corporation.
>    However, the proposed schedule appears too aggressive as we may need
>    more time to look into various issues.
> d. After the U.S. contract with NSI ends October 1, registrar
>    functions for the domain names would be open to a competitive system
>    of registrars until the new corporation looks at this issue.
>    AP region will be looking at how to encourage AP private sector
>    and AP Internet stakeholders to participate actively in such
>    a system of registrars.
> e. AP region notices that there is currently a lack of functionality
>    for internationalization (i18n) of the Domain Names System.
>    For growth of the Internet in the AP region, the multilingual
>    needs of Internet users in this region needs to be addressed.
>    The AP region encourages R&D in this respect. Through APNG and
>    APccTLD, the region hopes to testbed a prototype
>    multilingual domain name system for research purposes.
> f. ????
>
> This is an important time for AP region to be heard.
>
> Best rgds
>
> Tin Wee
> --
> Dr Tan Tin Wee
> Chairman, APNG
> tinwee@pobox.org.sg
>
>
> Attached below are the press releases and the url of the US
>  policy statement.

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