[apnic-talk] APRICOT'99 press release: Correct version
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APRICOT 1999 Press Release:
The Asia Pacific Internet Festival
Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
1999
28 February 1999 to 6 March 1999
Singapore International Conference and Exhibition Center
Singapore
Characterized as the quintessential Asia Pacific Internet Festival, this
year's
APRICOT has expanded range of activities and side events compared with
previous
APRICOTs.
Held for the fourth consecutive year and being a non-marketing and
vendor
neutral forum, APRICOT continues to be committed to establishing an
honest
platform for discussion on the skills and technologies that are relevant
to
Internet operational issues.
This annual APRICOT conference draws together technology leaders,
opinion
setters, movers and shakers from the region to exchange knowledge and
technical
know-how. This charged atmosphere is highly conducive in bringing about
focussed opportunities to solve Internet operational issues.
APRICOT continues to be a human network point for the professionals,
engineers,
entrepreneurs and decision-makers. These contact points would allow them
to
brainstorm and engage in stimulating discussions through which they
would
impart and acquired critical information.
This year's additional highlights would include the "Meet me" for
pre-conference discussions to be held over breakfast, lunch and dinner.
These
informal sessions are excellent opportunities for incubating greater
relations
and understanding among the speakers, instructors and attendees. The
net
result would be rapid dissemination of information.
APRICOT is supported by the National Computer Board, Singapore
Federation of
the Computer Industry and National Science and Technology Board. It is
jointly organised by the APRICOT Exceutive Committee, Asia Pacific
Networking
Group Secretariat and Singapore Computer Society.
APRICOT Executive Committee comprises prominent representatives who are
volunteers and Friends of APRICOT.
APRICOT is being held in conjunction with the following activities of
related
International and Asia Pacific Internet organizations:
a) Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) Biannual Meeting and working
group discussions,
b) Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Annual General
Meeting
c) Asia Pacific Internet Assocaition (APIA) Membership Meeting
d) Asia Pacific Policy and Legal Policy Forum (APPLe)
e) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
APRICOT 99 is being held during the Asia Pacific Internet Week where two
other
highly relevant Internet-related conferences and exhibitions will
happen. The
Singapore Linux Conference 1999 (5-7 March 1999) and Internet World Asia
@
Singapore (3-5 March 1999).
Internet World Asia @ Singapore comprises two forums that targets at two
interest groups.
The Enterprise Internet and information-packed forum discusses
e-commerce
issues on key applications that drive companies into the enterprises of
the
future. Internet business applications are rapidly moving beyond
electronic
brochures to high-powered Intranets and extranets. These are targetted
at
Senior Management.
The "Web Marketing and Advertising Forum" addresses how the Internet
opens
up new opportunities for sellers of products & services, consumer goods,
information. Marketing Professionals are encouraged to attend.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, is currently
the front-runner as a successor to the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority
(IANA). The meeting in Singapore during APRICOT exemplifies the key
role
APRICOT plays in the growth and deployment of the Internet in this
region.
ICANNs meetings are open to the public and are aimed at widest possible
input and participation by Asia Pacific representatives.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, is headed by
its
Interim Chairman, Ms Esther Dyson who is also the Chairman of EDventure
Holdings, a small, diversified company focused on emerging information
technology worldwide. She is a member of the US President's Export
Council
Subcommittee on Encryption and sits on the boards of the Electronic
Frontier
Foundation, Scala Business Solutions, Poland Online, Cygnus Solution,
E-Pub
Services, Trustworks (Amsterdam), IBS (Moscow), iCat, New World
Publishing
and the Global Business Network.
The Singapore Linux Conference 1999 is being held at the tail end of
APRICOT.
It probably comes as no surprise that Linux and similar Open Source (TM)
products are what has been used to build and drive the Internet. SLC 99
will
provide a forum to network with people who are not necessarily running
Internet operations, but are nonetheless major contributors and
luminaries in
the Linux and Open Source worlds. Key personalities speaking at SLC 99
include Eric S. Raymond of the Open Source Initiative, Richard M.
Stallman
of the GNU Free Software Foundation and Donald Becker of NASA on Beowulf
supercomputing project. There will also be a chess grandmaster
competing
against a Linux Beowulf-based chess program.
APRICOT is soliciting sponsorships. There are three categories
Platinum,
Gold and Silver. All of these sponsorships include an option to display
their exhibits at the Internet World exhibition under the APRICOT
Pavilion.
The APRICOT Pavilion will be prominently located at the entrance to the
Internet World Exhibition. Internet World Asia @ Singapore expects at
least
15,000 attendees for the three days. In addition, all sponsors will
have
access to a special VIP area to hold business meetings. Included also
is
the use of new interactive, web-based scheduling service provided by
EasyDiary. A 30% discount off the list price would also be granted to
APRICOT sponsors and participants who would want to attend the Internet
World Conference and Singapore Linux Conference.
Some of the speakers scheduled to appear at APRICOT include:
Eric Allman the original author of sendmail. He was the chief programmer
on
the INGRES database management project and an early contributer to the
UNIX
effort at Berkeley, authoring syslog, tset, the -me troff macros, and
trek.
He designed database user and application interfaces at Britton Lee
(later
Sharebase), and contributed to the Ring Array Processor project for
neural
network-based speech recognition at the International Computer Science
Institute. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the USENIX
Association.
Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data
networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He
was
involved in the design of the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN),
the
Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and NEARNET. He is currently
chair of
the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARNET and CoREN. Scott is also
the
co-director of the Operational Requirements Area in the IETF, an IESG
member
and is an elected trustee of the Internet Society. He is co-director of
the
IETF IP Next Generation effort.
Randy Bush is an ex-compiler writer, realtime kernel hacker and a
software
engineering manager who has spent over 30 years in the computer
industry.
Randy has been a user and occasional implementor of networking in the US
from the ARPANET to the current day Internet, UUCP, and FidoNet. He is
currently Director of Network Engineering at Verio, a US national
backbone
provider.
Key network operational experience came from time spent as the principal
engineer of RAINet, Oregon and Washington states premier ISP. Before
acquisition by Verio, RAINet was based on DS0-3 and lower speed leased
lines,
frame relay, and dialup servers, with over 250 sites in two states. As
the
core of Verio/Oregon, RAINet still serves private individuals, public
schools,
public access sites, and commercial companies. As PI for the Network
Startup
Resource Center, an NSF-supported pro bono effort, Randy has been
involved
for some years with the deployment and integration of appropriate
networking
technology in the developing world.
Fuller and latest details on all aspects of the various tracks,
plenaries are
available at the APRICOT website http://www.apricot.net.
Participants wishing to join can register online at:
a) APRICOT Sessions (Conferences/Tutorials)
http://www.apng.org/apricot/apricot.html for apricot sessions
b) Meetings of the AP Internet organisations
http://www.apng.org/apricot/apstar.html
c) Sponsors: http://www.apng.org/apricot/callforsponsorship.html
Media contact:
1. APRICOT Conferences and Tutorials: Harish Pillay (h.pillay at ieee dot org)
2. APNG Meetings: Dr Tan Tin Wee (tinwee at pobox dot org dot sg)
3. APNIC meeting: Pindar Wong (pindar at hk dot super dot net)
4. APTLD meeting: Agnes Lee (agneslee at nic dot net dot sg)
5. APPLe Track: Laina Raveendran Greene (laina at getit dot org)
6. APIA: Izumi Aizu (izumi at anr dot org)
7. Internet World Asia @ Singapore 99:
8. Singapore Linux Conference 1999: Harish Pillay (h.pillay at ieee dot org)
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