APTLD and

APTLD Technical Workshop

APTLD15/12/2003

Mailto: sec@aptld.org

• APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) is an organisation for ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) registries in Asia Pacific region.

• Established in 1998, and in 2003 legally established in Malaysia.

What is APTLD

• Forum of information exchange regarding technological and operational issues of domain name registries in Asia Pacific region.

• Interface to other international Internet coordinating bodies

• Fosters and elevates participation of AP ccTLDs in global fora,

APTLD Objectives

• APTLD is based on membership, and its activities are funded by membership fees.– 18 ordinary members including au, cc,

cn, cx, hk, jp, kr, my, nu, nz, ph, sg, tk, th, tj, tv, tw, vn

– 1 associate member: Afilias (in process)– 1 observer: CENTR (Council of European

National Top-Level Domain Registries)

APTLD Membership

• 2003 Board of Directors– Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah / .my (Chair) – Peter Dengate Thrush / .nz (Senior Vice Chair) – Yumi Ohashi / .jp (Vice Chair for Membership)– Chan-ki Park / .kr (Vice Chair for Treasure) – Chris Disspain / .au– Hualin Qian / .cn– Richard St. Clair / .nu– Vincent WS Chen / .tw

APTLD Board of Directors

• Membership/Sponsorship Committee 

• ICANN Relations Committee• Technical Committee• Constitutional Committee• Meeting Committee

• Audit Committee

APTLD Committees

• Wellington, New Zealand

– APTLD Technical Workshop on 21~22 Nov 2003

– Member and Board Meetings on 23 Nov 2003

APTLD Recent Events

• Target– APTLD member and non-

member

• Objectives– Education, Information sharing– Relationship building– Promotion to APTLD Membership

APTLD Workshop

• 1st APTLD Technical Workshop

– held on 21–22/11/2003 in conj. with APTLD Wellington Member and Board Meeting.

– Workshop Program organized by Technical Committee chaired by Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut.

– Welcomed by Peter Macaulay, Executive Director of InternetNZ (local host)

– Co-chaired by Nick Wallingford and David Harris (nz)

Wellington Technical Workshop

• Topics covered:– DNS and IPv6 Support– M and F Rootserver mirroring– IDN Issues– Registry database– ENUM– Introduction on InternetNZ– CityLink Wellington

Wellington Technical Workshop (con.)

• Workshop program and presentations are available at: www.aptld.org/aptld2003/files/APTLD_Technical_Workshop_Program_02.htm

• Approx. 30-40 participants from APTLD : .au, .jp, .kr, .my, .nz, .ph, .th, .tw, .info

• Agreed to continue organizing future APTLD workshops

Wellington Workshop Summary

• APTLD 2004 Technical Workshop Schedule – 2nd Technical Workshop will be held

at KL, Malaysia, in February 2004 in conj. with APRICOT 2004

– 3rd Technical Workshop will be held at Perth, Australia in November 2004 in conj. with APTLD Perth Meeting

2004 APTLD Workshop Plan

• APTLD 2004 Meeting Schedule

– 26 Feb: APTLD KL Meeting in conj. with APRICOT 2004

– 18 Jul: APTLD KL Meeting in conj. with ICANN KL Meetings (TBD)

– Between 4~6 Nov: APTLD Perth Meetings (TBD)

APTLD 2004 Meeting Schedule

Reference

• APTLD Homepage

http://www.aptld.org/

• Join APTLD

http://www.aptld.org/newsite/join/main.htm

• Contact

sec@aptld.org (Secretariat)

Thank You!