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ICANN AtLarge Activities Asia-Pacific
AP* Retreat Feb 22, 2004 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Izumi Aizu
My participation to ICANN so far
1996: GLOCOM sponsored a Panel on Internet governance at INET Montreal 1998 participated IFWP Steering Committee
APIA as the only legal entity from Asia Sent comments to USG Participated all IFWP meetings, chaired WG on Membership Hosted IFWP in Singapore GLOCOM meting with Ira Magaziner in Tokyo
Convey voices from Asia
1999 MAC to establish membership structure 2000 Election, Study in 2001 as NAIS 2002 “reform”, 2003 became ALAC
ALS application status:
Certified as ALS: 10 Europe: 5 Africa: 3 LA/CB: 1 Asia Pacific: 1 North America: 0 Under due diligence: 6 Europe: 1 LA/CB: 1 Asia Pacific: 4
Europe
Certified as ALS:
Internet Society - Finland (22 Nov 03) Internet Society - Bulgaria (30 Oct 03) Internet Society Luxembourg (27 Oct 03) Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG) e.V (20 Oct 03) Societa' Internet (4 Sept 03) Under due diligence:
Internet Society - Catalan (19 Jan 04)
Africa
Certified as At-Large Structure:
Sudan Internet Society (29 Sep 03)
Anais.AC (27 Oct 03)
11 African countries: Cameroon- Chad- Gabon - Central Africa Republic- Congo and RDC, part of Euro-African network Anais
Moroccan Internet Society (25 Nov 03)
Latin America/Carribean Islands
Certified as ALS:
Alfred (13 Oct 2003)
Under due diligence:
Asociación Costmaries de Derecho Informático (2 Dec 2003)
North America
No application submitted so far
Interested parties:
IEEE (www.ieee.org)
ACM (www.acm.org)
Others?
Asia Pacific
Certified as ALS:
Arab Knowledge Management Society (3 Oct 03) Under due diligence:
National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association, Taiwan (7 Jan 04) At Large @ China (9 January 04) ISOC Taiwan Chapter (29 Jan 04) Internet Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)- India (5 Feb 04)
China
AtLarge@China
Established in 2003
Internet Society of China gave support, but AtLarge@China is independent To serve individual users of China Using CNC’s national network to reach users in provinces
Taiwan
National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association, Taiwan ( www.nii.org.tw)
Industry promotion body, with many individual members
ISOC Taiwan Chapter
(www.isoc.org.tw)
Japan
Consultation with Internet Community and Government (MPHPT)
WSIS Liaison Group is formed by MPHPT Internet Governance TF to be proposed
WG on AtLrage WG on WSIS Internet Users Network, Tokyo
47 members now online
Peer-to-peer model, network of networks
Building RALO in Asia
At least 3 ALSs from 2 countries to organize Regional At-Large Organization (RALO) First preparatory meeting in July at ICANN KL meeting
Challenges for RALOs
Come to produce reasonable working mechanism (it took years for DNSO to become productive) How individuals participate after RALO established?
Funding: government/industry support?
Setup office? Secretariat?
Need coordinating body?
Lightweight organization
Issues
Regional diversity User organization to act as local focal point How to go beyond the technical community? – Consumer advocates, general users, small enterprise, etc.
More challenges
Will Bottom-up happen without top-down or other support?
Need some top-down?
Bottom-up per se is illusion?
Do we need an umbrella structure?
Still need coordination within region, and beyond regions
Challenges for AP
Difficult to base on individuals in Asia:
Should we accept industry and government support/collaboration?
How much “restriction” should we adopt with the criteria?
APNG
(Asia Pacific Networking Group)
APNG AtLarge committee starting
To share information from AP region To get more people involved, outreach
Initial members: 2
Kapil Chawla (India) Izumi Aizu (Japan), Co-Chair Ji-Yul Yoo (KRNIC) Co-Chair Ching Chiao (Taiwan) James Seng (Singapore) Hong Xue (China) ?? (AtLarge@China) Tommy Matsumoto (Japan) nd Meeting: 1:30 PM Feb 23, tomorrow!
Asia-Pacific Region
Unt. Arab Emirat.
Afghanistan Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bahrain Brunei Darussalam Bhutan Cook Islands China Cyprus Fiji Micronesia (FS) Georgia Hong Kong Indonesia Israel India Iraq Iran, Islamic Republic of Jordan Japan Kyrgyzstan Cambodia Kiribati Korea (DPR) Korea (R) Kuwait Kazakhstan Lao (PDR) Lebanon Sri Lanka Marshall Islands Myanmar Mongolia Macao Maldives Malaysia Norfolk Island Nepal Nauru Niue New Zealand Oman Papua New Guin.
Philippines Pakistan Palestinian Ter.
Palau Qatar Saudi Arabia Solomon Islands Singapore
Syrian Arab Rep.
Thailand Tajikistan Tokelau Timor-Leste Turkmenistan Tonga Turkey Tuvalu Uzbekistan Viet Nam Vanuatu
Asia-Pacific Region
(cont’d) Samoa Yemen Cocos Islands Christmas Island Heard/McDonald Islands Taiwan Antarctica
Core Internet groups in Asia Pacific:
APNG (Asia Pacific Networking Group) APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Center) APRICOT (Conference body) APTLD APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Networking) APCAUCE (Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email ) AIII (Asia Internet Infrastructure Initiative) AP Cert (Computer Emergency Response Team) AP* (joint organizational activity of all APs)
ALAC Contacts:
Website: http://alac.icann.org Asia-Pacific contacts: Hong Xue, Hong Kong
ALS Applications and Certification Process
Any group (existing or newly formed for this purpose) that supports individuals' ability to share their views on ICANN issues, and that meets the few simple criteria listed on the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) website, can apply to be an At-Large Structure.
Structure for Individual User (At Large) Involvement
ICANN created Interim At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) few months ago and called for framework of local, regional, global groups to promote structured involvement and informed participation of world’s “At-Large” community.
At-Large Advisory Committee
Steps for At-Large Structure Certification:
1.
A group submits an ALS application. 2.
ALAC conducts due diligence, ALAC Regional members in charge.
3.
ALAC reviews the application and related documentation. 4.
ALAC votes on certifying the applicant as an "At-Large Structure." 1.
ALAC has “hands-off” approach – accept unless we have serious objections 5.
ALAC notifies the applicant about the result