APRALO Strategy

Participation
Time changes need to be more considerate of the Asia Pacific region. Currently many critical phone meetings occur early hours of the morning during both the week and weekends.

Multilingualism
Asia Pacific has the most spoken languages of any region in the world. Offering an environment that ensures all stakeholders can easily converse in their own language with ease is advantageous to increasing participation and representation.

Outreach
ICANN need to be more aware of the needs for APRALO to attend and contribute to the many conferences in our region. An organisation that represents the users in the region does not equate well when we are not able to meet face to face with the stakeholders.

•IPv4/ IPv6 work
ICANN must be more proactive in this area providing both technical and non technical communities learning and support resources.

Implement IDNs
It is recommended that ICANN enables the IDN registries to allot an English domain name as a redundant domain name for all registered IDN names. For instance,ICANN may facilitate a dot idn domain name to be registered free of cost for every IDN registered anywhere. Such a system of an English domain name as a redundant or referral English domain name for an IDN would in general make it easier for most external communities to identity any IDN website which may otherwise be unintelligible to those outside the community.

Some of the possible technical challenges and complications related to IDN TLDs may still be unknown and the possible non-technical problems in the socio-political realm are completely unknown. (For example, the socio-political issues arising out of India's decision to have linguistic regions even after fifty years of such a decision. ) The ICANN community may look into such scenarios, debate a little more and consider various possible and appropriate measures of caution in IDN implementation so as to ensure that there are no undesirable fallouts.

•Implement new TLDs
What mechanisms does ICANN have in place to ensure the continuity of operations of a new gTLD that has gone operational and later found unviable for the Registry to continue? How would ICANN ensure the interests of the Registrants who have opted to register the new gTLD and have the necessity to maintain the name taken even in the event of discontinuation of operations by the Registry?

•Increased TLD options in all languages
TLD and ccTLD 'options' in various languages have to be implemented with the caution that language is uncharted territory for ICANN. ICANN needs to ensure that content generated in one language does not remain arcane to and closed within the community that speaks that language. At the same time, any community should not suffer the disadvantage of content from other languages being shut off from its reach. CcTLDs in all languages and gTLDs in some languages are likely to be fully or partially outside the generic names management system, so prone to multiple national policies. ICANN needs to pay attention to the evolution of language TLDs in a manner that the Internet's oneness and unified nature does not get threatened orcompromised.
Preserve DNS stability and security
This is a core area. Preservation of DNS stability and security requires to stretch beyond the security of DNS infrastructure traditionally considered as within the scope of ICANN's functions. This project should include ALL infrastructure related to DNS, whether or not within the scope of ICANN, for instance the DNS cache servers, IBP and ISP infrastructure, equipments in Internet exchange points and all other infrastructure technically related to the security and stability of the DNS. Measures to ensure Security and Stability have to be total and complete without leaving 'weak links' as seen at present.

Promote competition, trust, choice and innovation
One of the erroneous arguments in this area is that it requires new gTLDs, geoTLDs and IDNs to promote competition. Newer domains do provide choice, but it may not be argued that a plethora of domain names are required to promote competition. What is required is intra-industy competition, and not necessarily inter-domain competition