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Objectives. To promote skills development and information exchange related to Internet domain names amongst members To provide a forum to discuss policy matters affecting Internet domain name related entities
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Objectives • To promote skills development and information exchange related to Internet domain names amongst members • To provide a forum to discuss policy matters affecting Internet domain name related entities • To act as an interface with Internet coordination bodies and other bodies involved in the Internet domain name operation
Membership • Ordinary Members – 38 • Associate Members – 21 • Total – 59 • Join us: www.aptld.org/join
Meetings • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – March 2010 w/APRICOT • AGM • New Board • Focused on IPv6, Security and IDN launch
Meetings Sri Lanka – 27 – 28 Jun 2010 Focused on IDN Upcoming meeting in Jordan 30 Oct – 1 Nov, 2010 Hong Kong – 17 – 19 Feb, 2011
Trainings • Beijing August 2009: IPv6 one-day workshop by APNIC • Seoul ICANN: DNSSEC Workshop by APNIC, ACRP Workshop by ICANN • Sri Lanka APTLD: IPv6 by APNIC, Registry Operations by NSRC
Surveys • Strategy Matters – September 2009 • Overall Membership – December 2009 collaborating with all other regional TLD organisations:CENTR , LACTLD • Internal Issues – May 2010
IDN ccTLDs • One of the major advocates:different comments and position papers submitted to ICANN and we have the biggest demand on IDN • Delegation completed: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation, Egypt, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Jordan • Closely follow-up on the development, e.g. IDN ccPDP, JIG IDN WG
Disaster Support Fund • To support member organisations upon natural disasters • Donation in cash or in kind • Technical support for rebuilding registry infrastructure
Regional activities • We also co-organized AP regional IGF in June in Hongkong, it was a very successful meeting have more than 200 people attended
Internal matters • New General Manager: Jian Zhang • New Secretariat • InternetNZ has been operating and sponsoring the secretariat of APTLD from 2005 to 2009 and their contract came to an end in June 2009 • A Request for Proposal (RFP) for the APTLD Secretariat was therefore issued • HKIRC, the registry for the .HK ccTLD, was selected and awarded a contract to operate and sponsor the APTLD Secretariat from 2009 to 2011
For More Information… • www.aptld.org • General Manager Jian Zhang: Jian@aptld.org • Secretariat: sec@aptld.org
Thanks! • August 21 2010 • Jian Zhang • jian@aptld.org