PAUL WILSON: 

We'll start again in a minute. I've just been advised that the 
wireless network, in fact, the whole network, will be going away at 
about 4:45. If you want to download some final e- mail, then do it 
quickly because it will be, apparently, it will definitely be going 
away. OK, another call here for the open microphone. There are two 
mics in the middle of the room here. There's even a mic that can come 
to you if you would like to say anything or ask any questions.

OK, well, there'll be another chance before the end of the day but, in 
the meantime, I'll be able to stop talking for a little while because 
we have some EC election results to announce. The EC has got seven 
members and those members serve for 2-year terms. One year ago, last 
year, we had an election for four members and this year, the election 
is for three members. And the three outgoing members of the EC are at 
this election are Che-Hoo Cheng, Akinori Maemura and Geoff Huston. So 
the calls for nominations was made in accordance with the bylaws four 
weeks ago I think. And nominations came in and we have three 
nominations for three threes. This is why you haven't been given 
ballot papers or asked to undertake any complicated voting procedure 
this time because there is no need for an election. Geoff Huston 
indicated that he wouldn't be running again by the way. The three 
nominations and therefore EC members elect are Vinh Ngo, Che-Hoo Cheng 
and Akinori Maemura. I would like to invite each of you gentlemen, 
please, to come and say any words of greetings, welcome, etc that 
you'd like in order of listing on the screen perhaps. 

VINH NGO: 

Thanks, Paul. I'll keep it short. Good afternoon, ladies and 
gentlemen. My name is Vinh Ngo, as you see up there. I've been working 
with the IT industry for the last 13 years. I finished my bachelor 
degree of computer science in Curtin University in Western Australia. 
For the last four years, I've been working as a computer security 
firewall manager for CSC. If you're not aware of CSC, CSC is the third 
biggest global outsourcing company. I hope that with the EC, I have a 
chance to get to know you all, find out how APNIC runs and hopefully I 
can contribute in some way. Thank you. 

PAUL WILSON: 

Thank you very much. 

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PAUL WILSON: 

Che-Hoo, welcome back. 

CHE-HOO CHENG:

Hello, my name is Che-Hoo. As you know, I'm from Hong Kong. I've been 
in the EC for six years. I'm very glad it be re-elected again and I 
will continue to contribute in the EC and try my best to help the 
community. I know Cantonese and Mandarin. If you choose to speak in 
Cantonese, Mandarin or English with me, you're welcome. I have nothing 
else to say. Anyway, thank you. 

PAUL WILSON:

Thanks, Che-Hoo. And Maemura-san, welcome back to you as well. 
Outgoing chair of the EC and possibly chair elect. 

AKINORI MAEMURA:

OK, my name is Akinori Maemura again and this is my second time to run 
for EC and I'm very happy to have more two years to be here. The 
experience with the EC is quite precious with me and it is quite - I 
think this position is quite important in terms of the whole Internet 
governance and the Internet within Asia Pacific and also the whole 
globe. I will do my best for the next two years. Thank you very much. 

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And, on behalf of the current Executive Council, I would like to 
mention some words - many of you wonder why Geoff Huston is going to 
run more two years. I would like to explain some for that. Geoff is 
right now taking his 75% time in APNIC in his position. Right now, he 
is going to increase this portion from 75% to 100% to delegate more. I 
really admire his profound knowledge and understanding of the Internet 
and we learn a lot from him and so I - we will miss him in the EC but, 
still, we will be retaining him as part of our community. So please, 
everyone, show big hands for him for his contribution for the eight 
years on the Executive Council. Geoff. 

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PAUL WILSON: 

Much less than you deserve, Geoff. Thank you. 

GEOFF HUSTON:

I actually joined the EC by accident. 

LAUGHTER

If any of you were around in 1996, the first five organisational 
members who'd actually signed up were placed on the EC and, at the 
time, in Telstra, we were one of the first five so, as I said, I 
joined it by accident. The last eight years have certainly been a lot 
of fun. I think we've actually built a remarkable community and have 
done an amazing amount of work in that period and I feel quite 
privileged to have been part of that and helped us all get to where we 
are today. I think we're now very much part of the fabric inside the 
Asia Pacific region and, for me, that's been an outstanding 
achievement. It hasn't been my work. It's been all of our work. And to 
each and every one of you and to the APNIC staff and Paul Wilson, my 
own thanks and appreciation for an amazing piece of work. Well done 
and thank you.

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PAUL WILSON:

OK, well, there's one last piece of formal business before closing the 
meeting with a few words of thanks as usual and that's to announce the 
next meeting which has been decided. As usual, proposals were received 
by the APNIC EC and they were reviewed and a decision was made just 
prior to this meeting. I'm very happy to announce as I hope you will 
all be happy to here that the next meeting, the 18th Open Policy 
Meeting, will be held in Fiji in September. That is being hosted by 
Telecom Fiji and Internet Services Fiji Limited and I would like to 
invite you to come and give us an idea of what we can expect at the 
next meeting. 

ALFRED PRASAD:

Looking at attendance from the present and past meetings, we can say 
that small island nations have been underrepresented and the only 
reason that we can think of or probably the obvious region is that of 
geographic isolation. Holding the event in Fiji, we hope to actually 
change that situation. One of the questions that I have been asked 
more than a few times over the last few days is "where is Fiji?" we 
are located fairly close to Australia and New Zealand, in case you 
didn't know, and we have flights into Fiji from Korea, Japan, Canada, 
the United States, New Zealand and Australia. Airlines flying to Fiji 
are Qantas, Air New Zealand, Korean Air and our very own Air Pacific. 
We also have many flights to neighbouring island nations.

Visa requirements - citizens of many countries do not require to apply 
for visas. However, you will need to have a passport that is valid for 
at least six months into the future. Language will not be a problem 
for most of you as everyone in Fiji speaks English. It's also common 
for hotels to employ translators that also speak Japanese. The actual 
meeting will be held 20 minutes drive away from the international 
airport. It actually will be held at the Sheraton Fiji resort in 
Denarau. This resort boasts, among many other things, a world-class 
golf course and the surrounding sea contains what many claim are the 
most popular diving spots in the world. There are also many small 
island resorts close by that can be reached by boat, a 30-minute ride 
or so. I would like to take this opportunity to invite each and every 
one of you to our next meeting in Fiji. We hope to see as many of you 
as possible. Thank you very much. 

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PAUL WILSON:

I'd like to mention the hosts of the meeting have gone to great effort 
to negotiate with the Sheraton a good hotel rate. I think all of the 
details will be provided in due course on the website but they really 
have gone to extra efforts to make sure that the meeting is going to 
be successful and accessible to as many of us as possible. Thanks. We 
look forward to it.

Unusually, we can also announce not one but two future meetings after 
APNIC 18. The next APRICOT, as you probably have heard, is APRICOT 
2005 in Osaka so, of course, that will be the site for the 19th APNIC 
- Kyoto, I'm sorry. My apologies. Don't go to Osaka! I hope I get this 
one right. But you've got, well, two years to find out for sure and 
that will be the following APRICOT 2006, is in Bangalore in India. So 
we have three future meetings to look forward to - Fiji, Kyoto and 
Bangalore. A great variety, really, in those locations, both in terms 
of culture, I think, and also geography, so I hope we'll be able to 
really promote the involvement of many old and new faces in these 
future meetings. APNIC 20, of course, will be held in August or 
September 2005 and there will be a call for proposals about that in 
due course but that's not normally made until the September meeting of 
this year. OK, so, that does bring us to the end of the formal 
program. I'd like to thank, once again, the sponsors of this 17th 
APNIC Open Policy Meeting, particularly the APNIC Member Meeting 
section, and these are TWNIC and JPNIC, of course. Let's show our 
appreciation to them for their contribution. 

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I have a couple of small gifts. It's very nice to see an old face at 
this meeting ready to accept a gift on behalf of JPNIC. Maemura-san. 
Nice to see you again. Thank you. Thanks for the contribution. Many 
thanks also to the SIG Chairs who put their efforts in at this 
meeting, before the preparations today. Arano-san, Yamamoto-san, 
Maemura-san Xing Li-san, Philip Smith, Joe Abley. We had trainers Bill 
Manning and Andy Linton who helped us out. We've also had the 
lightning speed assistance from Dean and Lorraine from the Australian 
Caption Centre. Don't stop typing. 

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Also, well, particularly, the APNIC staff and EC who have, I think, 
excelled themselves in making this meeting one of the most successful, 
if not the most successful, meetings that we've had in terms of smooth 
operations. It's gone very smoothly, I think, from outside the 
Secretariat office and, unusually, from inside the Secretariat office 
as well. I think we're adding more features and more stuff to these 
meetings to make them better each time and everyone really has worked 
very hard. All the staff who are here and, with the support of the EC 
members. So thanks to all of you very much for really hard work.

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Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting. As I mentioned before, it 
is with the support of members and friends of APNIC that these 
meetings are able to happen. I think they're becoming better known, 
the sessions are becoming better known and better attended and, 
without that, of course, it wouldn't be much use to anyone. So thanks 
to you, thanks to PIKOM as well. I don't know if someone from PIKOM is 
in the room but, as the host of APRICOT 2004, and they’re the hosts of 
the APNIC Member Meeting, I think PIKOM did a really outstanding job 
of making this APRICOT as well extremely successful. So I'd like to 
just present this to PIKOM. Thank you very much.

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There's also something to drink here for the staff of PIKOM. I think 
you probably need it! Before we wrap up, I'd better hand over to 
Gerard. Or is it in fact one of Gerard's staff... 

GERARD ROSS:

I think in fact the webmaster... 

PAUL WILSON:

We've got a prize draw. I think it's very appropriate, Yun, for you to 
select the successful web survey respondent from this box because I 
think you're the one who's going to be reading these surveys! You 
might as well get started now. I guess you just need to... I'll fan 
them out for you like a pack of cards. The prize which, as you've 
heard, is sensational, is on the table in front of me. I don't want to 
leave any behind in case there's accusations of unfairness in this 
process. I guess you just need to close your eyes and select - I'll 
just shuffle them. PS Jayawardhana! Thanks very much to everyone who 
put in, thanks. To the rest of you, commiserations but hopefully some 
satisfaction in knowing the website will be all the better for your 
contributions.

I did forget one last group of people to thank for their presentations 
and they're our RIR colleagues. To Richard and Raul, Paul and Adiel, 
thanks. Thanks again to everyone for attending the meeting and 
supporting the meeting. It really wouldn't be possible or useful 
without you also. I think everyone deserves an expression of 
appreciation so thanks very much and see you all in Fiji!

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