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Vice Chair
by Karaitana Taiuru Nov. 27, 2008

Nov. 27, 2008

Further to our monthly phone conference (of which we required a Vice Chair for the last part), I would like to nominate Les Allinson from PICISOC for one of the 2 interim Vice Chair positions. There are several reasons for my nomination: 1. Such an appointment will truly reflect that we are an Asia "Pacific" representative organisation. 2. Les worked along side our former Chair Rajnesh of whom Les replaced as the ALS rep. 3.Les in proactively performing outreach in the Pacific for APRALO and is a pro active APRALO member. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru

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Tele-Conference tomorrow
by Pavan Budhrani Nov. 24, 2008

Nov. 24, 2008

Dear all, The APRALO tele-conference will be held tomorrow at 0500 UTC. Please take a look at the schedule before hand. One noticeable difference is that you can see a number next to each agenda item. This is the suggested time we should spend on each item. Many times we talk a lot about some items and some do not even get discussed. This way, we can cover all our agenda items. Looking forward to hearing from you all tomorrow. Thanks -- Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation

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Draft Agenda for coming APRALO Tele-Conference on 25/11/2008!
by Pavan Budhrani Nov. 12, 2008

Nov. 12, 2008

Dear all, Here is the draft agenda for the coming tele-conference.Any additions or edits are welcome before the 20th of November. Thanks. 1. Update of Vivek, Has the orientation been done already? 2. IGF update by Hong 3. Staff to update us on funding for the IGF meeting in Hyderabad. 4. Chair to give update on reaching out to ALS to get proper contact information. 5. Any news of the presentation to be done to other RALO by APRALO, perhaps a working group for this? 6. Vice Chair opening 7. AOB Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation

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Automated translations for the APAC-Discuss list?
by Nick Ashton-Hart Nov. 11, 2008

Nov. 11, 2008

Dear APRALO members: I would like to try something with our new list translation interface, and set up Arabic, Chinese, and Russian language mailing lists connected to the current discuss list. What this would mean is that those who spoke those languages could subscribe to the list of their choice, write natively in that language, and the translation interface which ICANN has created would automatically translated their messages into English. The facility does not yet exist to translate directly from any of those languages to any of the other languages, so, there are definitely limits to what can be done. What do you all think? Is this worth trying out, understanding that there may be some issues? If you want to know more about the list translation inteface, see our homepage at www.atlarge.icann.org - the article is at http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13oct08-en.htm and is itself translated. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 578-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Cairo Agenda
by Pavan Budhrani Nov. 5, 2008

Nov. 5, 2008

Dear All, Agenda for tomorrow's meeting at 7 30am at the San Souci II room (same one we been using for all ALAC meetings). The agenda will be as follow: 1. ALAC election update by Karaitiana. 2. APRALO Tele-conference at the end of November will be held as usual 3. IGF update by Hong 4. Ways to increase participation for ALS'es 5. Summit working group, updates? 6. Outreach efforts for APRALO 7. AOB If there are any edits you wish to make or additions, do let me know. Thanks Pavan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pavan Budhrani <pavan(a)registry.asia> Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM Subject: Drafted Agenda for October Tele-Conference To: "apac-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" < apac-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Dear all, Here is the draft agenda for the coming tele-conference scheduled for 28th October 2008 1. ALAC election update by Karaitiana. 2. ICANN Cairo APRALO meeting on Wednesday at 7:30am, agenda to be discussed 3. IGF update by Hong 4. Questionnaire about increasing participation, updates? 5. Summit working group, updates? 6. Outreach efforts for APRALO 7. AOB -- Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation -- Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation

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Re: [APAC-Discuss] Drafted Agenda for October Tele-Conference
by Cheryl Langdon-Orr Oct. 28, 2008

Oct. 28, 2008

OK I just went over the archives for the APRALO list and whilst Yes there is no message saying the Oct 28th meeting is postponed and is on the 5th of Nov in Cairo per se. there is plenty of traffic which I believe makes this clear . Yes it was unfortunate that Pavan put out an Agenda saying the 28th but he then rescinded it (all be it now perhaps not clearly enough) with the we'll use this Agenda for the meeting on the 5th and that meeting had plenty of discussion. Obviously when we are all so busy and may only be glancing at message headers all too often we need to be clearer and my personal preference is for the Google Calendar and iCal invitations to be sent to all of our APRALO contacts/ reps and alternates from now on so we all know clearly if anything has changed. And of course we should also expect the usual reminder notice(s) -> which did not occur this time so that might have helped some of us I suppose) That said I sent my message re the postponement as shown below in enough of an advance time I had hoped, that no one should have been misled. Sorry you both were, but again perhaps in future (if this shifting of meeting times and dates ever occurs) staff or someone could monitor the call space during the first 12-15mins of a cancelled call so we ensure no one waits on like that again and of course in a future where a hybrid system with an IRC or Adobe connect room is also being used a message could be placed in there as well. Finally something I will criticise the secretariat for is the lack of summary minutes from the last meeting on our Wiki for the 23rd of Sept as these notes *would* have clearly stated when the next meeting was to be. CLO From: Hong Xue [mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 5:19 PM To: cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au Cc: Pavan Budhrani; Karaitiana Taiuru; At-Large Staff Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] Drafted Agenda for October Tele-Conference Postponed! I was NOT informed at all. As Leslie said, I waited for more than 28 minutes and skipped another meeting. Leslie and I deserve an explanation from the secretariat. Hong On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr <cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au> wrote: This Oct Meeting was postponed until we are all together in Cairo as far as I am concerned. CLO From: Hong Xue [mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 27 October 2008 10:50 PM To: Pavan Budhrani; Karaitiana Taiuru; cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au Cc: At-Large Staff Subject: Re: [APAC-Discuss] Drafted Agenda for October Tele-Conference Dear All, I will be at a meeting around 5:00 UTC tomorrow but will try to join you. If there is still no toll-free number working in Beijing, could you call me around 5:15 UTC at "+86 10 8242 5692"? If no one answers the call, I must be on the way. You could try again at 5:30 UTC. Thanks Hong On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Pavan Budhrani <pavan(a)registry.asia> wrote: Dear all, Here is the draft agenda for the coming tele-conference scheduled for 28th October 2008 1. ALAC election update by Karaitiana. 2. ICANN Cairo APRALO meeting on Wednesday at 7:30am, agenda to be discussed 3. IGF update by Hong 4. Questionnaire about increasing participation, updates? 5. Summit working group, updates? 6. Outreach efforts for APRALO 7. AOB -- Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.i cann.org Homepage for the region: http://www.apralo.org

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Drafted Agenda for October Tele-Conference
by Pavan Budhrani Oct. 28, 2008

Oct. 28, 2008

Dear all, Here is the draft agenda for the coming tele-conference scheduled for 28th October 2008 1. ALAC election update by Karaitiana. 2. ICANN Cairo APRALO meeting on Wednesday at 7:30am, agenda to be discussed 3. IGF update by Hong 4. Questionnaire about increasing participation, updates? 5. Summit working group, updates? 6. Outreach efforts for APRALO 7. AOB -- Pavan Budhrani Communications Manager, DotAsia Organisation

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Results of the ALAC Election and Survey
by Nick Ashton-Hart Oct. 27, 2008

Oct. 27, 2008

Dear APRALO Members: We are pleased to provide you with the results of the election for the ALAC seat currently held by Izumi Aizu of Japan. The voting used a preference-based system, in which all voters ordered the candidates according to their preference. Accordingly, the winner is the candidate with the least number of total votes. The results are as follows: As at poll close: Fri 24 Oct 2008 23:00 UTC Number of voters: 11 · Group size: 15 · Percentage voted: 73.33 Ranked by smallest sum of votes Rank Candidate Votes % 1 Dr.V.C.Vivekanandan, HRD IP Chair Professor & Head-Centre for IPLaw Studies 21 31.82 2 Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, President at ISOC India Chennai and CEO at Turiya 22 33.33 3 Prof. Ming-Cheng Laing of ISOC-TW 23 34.85 These results may be independently verified on the website of our voting system, at https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=u2cZLzFh9PPDCeCmg637 The staff would like to congratulate Dr. Vivekanandan. We will ensure that he is added to the requisite mailing list and make ourselves available to help him become acquainted with the ALAC. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 578-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Fellowships for APRICOT 2009
by Rajnesh D. Singh Oct. 23, 2008

Oct. 23, 2008

Please note announcement below, which may be of interest to some of your membership. Regards, R. <begin> The Annual APRICOT conference is a unique and successful educational forum for Internet builders in the Asia-Pacific region, to learn from their peers and from leaders in the Internet community. Senior practitioners from the Asia Pacific and around the world contribute their time to APRICOT as presenters, teachers and trainers, to produce a non-commercial conference of consistently high-quality. Since 2000, APRICOT has incorporated a Fellowship Program to provide opportunities to developing country personnel to participate in APRICOT. This program provides basic assistance to successful fellows to cover local living and registration expenses associated with attending the conference. For the year 2009, the Award Package has been expanded to cover registration fees for the APRICOT 2009 Workshops in addition to the tutorial and conference. The applicant may also apply funding for 80% of their air travel cost (up to a limit of USD1K) to the event. Please see http://apricot2009.pregi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&I… <http://apricot2009.pregi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&I…> for full details. The APRICOT 2009 Fellowship Committee now cordially invite suitable applicants to apply for fellowship funding to participate in APRICOT 2009 in Manila (www.apricot2009.net <http://www.apricot2009.net>). To apply, click http://submission.apricot.net/fellowship/index.php Best regards, Suresh Ramasubramanian on behalf of the APRICOT 2009 Fellowship Committee <end>

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Seeking Support for this Election
by mcliang Oct. 23, 2008

Oct. 23, 2008

Dear all, As one of the nominees for the ALAC representative election, I would like to further show my willingness to involve in APRALO/ALAC discussion of important issues and contribute my ideas and insights about Internet Governance for the region in the future. In the past three years, I continuously participate in ICANN-related activities and join the discussion of IDN and IPv6 of different working groups under the structure of ICANN and APNIC. With the understanding of the complicities and importance of those discussions on technical development and Internet Governance, I fully realize that the position of ALAC representative would be critical to the future development of Internet not only in the region but the world. Thus, I would be committed to fully join the related discussion in ALAC meetings. At-large communities represent the voices of Internet end-users around the world. I have been involved in the ISOC-TW activities for a long time and have many experiences to bridge internet end-users and different Internet Governance organizations. Thus, with my long-term experiences and involvement, I would like to contribute my time and expertise for the position of ALAC representatives. It would be a great honor if I am elected for the position and of the services for the communities. If you have any further opinions or ideas, please do not hesitate to contact me at any time. Tel:+886-7-591-9441 +886-2-2341-1313 ext.101 +886-931-779-936 Ming-Cheng Liang

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