10. A report of the 1st APNIC Meeting
10.1 The 1st APNIC Meeting
APNIC(Asia Pacific Network Information Center) held the 1st meeting from
16th January to 17th January at Cheraronkon University Bang-kok. It may be
strange that APNIC worked a lot so far, but it has a reason.
Because APNIC linked with APNG(Asia Pacific Networking Group) so far, and
everything debated at APNG. APNG, it was called APCCIRN/APEPG(Asia Pacific
Coordinating Committee for International Research Networking/Asia Pacific
Engineering and Planning Group), they revised it after summer meeting 1994.
They held the meeting twice a year. So, the title ,"the 1st" means "the 1st
APNIC original meeting".
We concerned about the percentage of attendance because of the 1st meeting.
But the meeting was well attended as a result of the interest in APNIC has
grown. It was very hard for the university people who offer the place to
stay and hold the meeting. But they were happy to see the interest in APNIC
has grown.
*The participation number of APNIC Meeting by the nation
CHINA 3 PHILIPPINES 1 THAILAND 47
HONG KONG 4 GUAM 1 MALAYSIA 1
SOUTH KOREA 4 AUSTRALIA 2 SINGAPORE 3
JAPAN 7 NEW ZEALAND 1 INDONESIA 2
TAIWAN 5 INDIA 1
10.2.The most important discussion -the way of collect-
On the meeting, it reported the present situation from each coutry at the
beginning. And the next day, it reported about the prospects for the future
at the end of Meeting. It took long time to discuss how to collect on APNIC.
JPNIC is also discussing about registration fees, it is the same as APNIC.
APNIC accepts lots of application for address allocation beyond their estimate,
with the spread of Internet in Asia. APNIC can not deal with the application,
and it will be failure.
APNIC has not charged a membership fees until now. Some countries repulse
to charge, because APNIC's work was divided into JAPAN,SOUTH KOREA and
AUSTRALIA NIC until now. Anyway, if APNIC needs to collect the funds, there
are 3 ways to collect.
(1)To collect a membership fees (the same as JPNIC until 1994)
(2)To collect the charge
(3)To rely on the other funds (the U.S. InterNIC rely on the National
Science Foundation)
Mr.David R Conrad(a member of IIJ, JPNIC-WG) who is APNIC's Interim
Directorate made its original plan through e-mail discussion last year.
It was the way of (2). But, some coutries oppose to collect the charge, and
some coutries propose to offer the fund. For the time being, we decided to
collect the way of (3).It conditions that it will be examined APNIC Meeting
in June 1995. It took a long time to decide.
So far, it discussed the way of (2) on the e-mail discussion. APNIC-WG in
JPNIC planned on condition that to collect the charge. So, we have to change
the plan after this decision. Anyway, APNIC will collect the charge in the
near future as most people consider.
10.3 Exceptions for JPNIC
In the Asia Pacific Area, there are not so many coutries that have their
own NIC(JAPAN,SOUTH KOREA and AUSTRALIA only), and the other countries are
preparing for their own NIC (proto NIC). But we think that the interest
for NIC work are great. For example, we debated unofficially on the first
day after dinner. We talked about domain name beyond the DNS. Someone asked
about geographic type domain name in Japan. We think that the experience of
JPNIC will be useful on the other coutries. For example, the problems that
membership fees and charge will debate and do ahead of other countries.
After this, it is important to link with each other about various experience
and problems in the Asia Pacific Area.