---------- From: laina at singnet.com.sg[SMTP:laina at singnet.com.sg] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 7:21 AM To: apia-members at apia.org; apple at apnic.net; Tan Tin Wee; apnic-talk at apnic.net Subject: White Paper follow up Dear all, Please note that any AP associations which would like to be added to the Steering Committee of the initiave (see Press Release below) can do so. APIA has volunteered to act as facilitator (since we were the only AP association so far involved in the discussions) and would appreciate the involvement of others in the region. The aim of the meetings is to try and consolidate the many meetings that have been announced, including the one at INET'98 to ensure some consolidation and more importantly to ensure that as many interested parties as possible can attend and be kept informed. There is even discussion of having a fellowship fund to ensure that people who cannot afford it can also attend, and this is in an effort to ensure global participation. The Europe meeting will also reach out to the Middle East and Africa and the Asia Pacific one will hope to encourage Pacific island participation as well. The regional meetings are an attempt to reach out. The meetings are not meant to push any one agenda, but rather to solicit views of others on the White Paper and to gather views to see how we can move forward on creating this new not-for-profit entity. The meetings will invite current stakeholders including Dr Postel, etc and hopes to gather as wide base support and input as possible, We do hope to enlisten your views and support so if you have any suggestions for the regional meeting in AP, please e-mail them to me at laina at getit.org and please refer to the new International Forum on the White Paper website at www.ifwp.org. The details of the Asia meeting will be announced later on the APIA website as well as on the asiapacific.ifwp.org website (under construction), and we are targetting early August. Hope to have your support in these initiatives (please read the press release below) Regards, Laina Raveendran Greene Policy Advisor APIA ---------- News For Immediate Release Contact: Janis Langley, Optimum [phone: +1 (703) 847-0192 email: press at ifwp.org ] Internet Stakeholder Associations to Advance White Paper Process Associations Plan Coordinated International Forum Washington, DC, USA - June 19, 1998 - Responding to the U.S. Government White Paper on the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses, a broadly based coalition of Internet stakeholder associations is calling for an international forum to prepare for the transition from government to private management. The International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP) is an international initiative sponsored by a diverse group of associations representing numerous Internet stakeholder interests from around the world. The IFWP is sponsoring coordinated international meetings to discuss the issues of Internet technical administration of names and numbers left open in the "White Paper" and the transition to a new corporation for Internet technical administration. In a White Paper released June 5, the U.S. government announced its intention to relinquish control of the Internet to a private, non-profit organization by September 30, 2000. The new organization will be created from among the diverse parties that have a stake in how domain names, Internet numbers and other Internet identifiers for the Internet are managed. The IFWP consists of associations around the world representing diverse Internet interests. Its purpose is to provide an organizing framework for the coordinated international meetings. The preliminary work to ensure that the international meetings are coordinated is being undertaken by an international, volunteer steering committee of IFWP sponsors. The first regional IFWP meeting will be held on July 1-2, at the Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston, Virginia, USA. Chaired by Professor Tamar Frankel -- a world-renowned expert on incorporation -- of the Boston University School of Law -- the two-day event will seek to identify key issues, views and opinions on the areas left open by the White Paper to private sector development. - more - These issues include the formation of the private sector corporation for the technical administration of names and numbers; the development of a new domain name registry and dispute resolution system; and security and privacy issues associated with the Internet's technical infrastructure. Additional meetings are planned around the world during the summer in anticipation of the end of existing U.S. Government contracts that manage the current Internet name and number systems. Two other meetings are currently being planned, one in Europe in July and another in Asia in early August Further information about the International Forum on the White Paper, including a list of sponsoring associations, is available at http://www.ifwp.org. Press contact: Janis Langley, Optimum [phone: +1 (703) 847-0192 email: press at ifwp.org ] ____________________. Current IFWP Sponsoring Organizations (as of June 19, 1998): Association for Interactive Media [AIM] Association of Internet Professionals {AIP] Association of Online Professionals [AOP] Asia and Pacific Internet Association [APIA] Camara Argentina de Bases de Datos y Servicios en Linea [CABASE] Canadian Association of Internet Providers [CAIP] Commercial Internet eXchange [CIX] Computer Science and Services Association [CSSA] EDUCOM/EDUCAUSE European Internet Service Providers Association [EuroISPA] Internet Alliance [IA] Internet Law and Policy Forum [ILPF] The Internet Society [ISOC] Internet Service Providers' Consortium [ISP/C] Information Technology Association of America [ITAA] Society for College and University Planning [SCUP] US Council for International Business [USCIB] -0- -----------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Laina Raveendran Greene E-mail: laina at singnet.com.sg Date: 21/06/98 Time: 12:21:03 This message was sent by Chameleon ------------------------------------- * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request at apnic.net * -------- Logged at Mon Jun 22 04:52:55 MET DST 1998 ---------