APIA and Informal Networking meeting
APIA membership drive and 5th Informal Networking meeting
This is to invite you to the 5th Informal Networking Meeting for IT and
Telecom Professionals organised by GetIT Pte Ltd. The meeting will be
held on the 20th August 1997 at the Holiday Inn Parkview at 6.30pm.and
sponsored by the Asia Pacific Internet Association.
These informal meetings were first held in September 1996 with the
suport of the Director General of TAS as the inaugural speaker. Since
then, there have been a series of meetings sponsored by different
organisations such as GetIT, CommExpress, Contact, AIC Conferences,
etc.and a series of speakers including the CEO of SBA, Deputy Director
of the International Telecommunications Union, Regional Director of
INTELSAT, etc.
The next meeting will be sponsored by the newly formed Asia Pacific
Internet Association, which is a regional industry association for
Internet related services providers, such as ISPs, Web business,
electronic commerce, etc..
The topic of discussion will be the International Ad Hoc Committee
proposals
on Domain Name System administration.
There are many issues here that will impact users, ISPs,
content creators, etc. Although the crux of the issues stem on
introducing more Top Level Domain Names, the issues focus also on
trademarks laws. Much of the US Law of diution is being supported by the
IAHC proposal and a separate Alternative Dispute Resolution procedure
under the World Intellectual Propert Organisation will be set up.
Meanwhile, the International Telecommunications Union has been made the
depository of signatories to these documents. A draft briefing paper
highlighting some issues have been attached for your perusal and comments.
There will be a panel of speaker will be:
Laina Raveendran, Managing Director, GetIT Pte Ltd (moderator)
Mr Harish Pillay, General Manager, Contact (content provider viewpoint)
Mr Matthias Koerber, SingNet (SGNIC point of view)
Mr Barry Greene, Cisco Systems (regional ISP viewpoint, APIA Director)
Mr Tan Chin Tuan, TAS (Singapore One perspective)
This panel plans to explore the proposals, look at the legitimacy
issues, how importation of these laws and international bodies impact
domain name issues for industry in this region. Applications for new
registries are open til october this year, and how will this impact
SGNIC? Does Singapore support the IAHC, ITU and WIPO intitiatives? What
will our positions be at the next upcoming WIPO meeting in September?
Will there be any responses from this region to the US Department of
Commerce Notice for Commcents, meant to help gather input on how the
review the current Internet governance regime?
Those interested to attend, please either e-mail to
gchchong at singnet dot com dot sg or send fax to 738 7839. Keep a date with us to
be on top of what is happening out there.
20th August 1997
Holiday Inn Parkview
6.30pm
Laina Raveedran Greene
Managing Director
GetIT Pte Ltd
Executive Director
APIA Ltd
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Name: Laina Raveendran Greene
E-mail: laina at singnet dot com dot sg
Date: 8/5/97
Time: 10:47:52 PM
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