______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 9.00am Presentation: APNIC Executive Council report Presenter: Akinori Maemura ______________________________________________________________________ AKINORI MAEMURA: Good morning, everyone. My name is Akinori Maemura, chair of the APNIC Executive Council. We have the seven Executive Council members. Stand up, EC gentlemen, and present your face to the membership. Ok, I, myself is Akinori Maemura. There is Billy Cheon from KRNIC. Kuo-Wei Wu from Taiwan and Che-Hoo Cheng from Singapore. CHE-HOO CHENG: I'm not from Singapore. AKINORI MAEMURA: I know! From Hong Kong of course. And Ma Yan from China also and Qian Hualin from China and Vinh Ngo from Australia. They are quite willing to answer to your questions so please come up to them, including me. OK and these three (refers to slide) will be expiring their times today and these three all are now running again for the EC election. The main functions of the Executive Council is representing the membership to some check or supervision for the Secretariat's operations, to do the interim decisions between the AMMs in a defined and limited responsibilities and also oversight the activities of APNIC and representing membership and community to consider broad Internet policy issues for APNIC strategy. And to establish the basis of the budget for membership approval and to endorse the policy consensus toward the implementation. We usually have the monthly telephone conference for the EC meetings and then, in APNIC meetings, we have the onsite meeting, usually on Tuesday. For the financial status, in the monthly meeting, we confirm the monthly report and also we confirm the annual financial report for 2005 this time and also we had a discussion for the annual budget for 2006 and, as Paul presented, we have the slightly negative budget but we confirmed that is needed for securing the stable service of APNIC. Policy endorsements - we have three endorsements for this six months. Also, the ICANN and NRO situation is quite big concern also for EC and we have - we are now have a look and check about the contract and also the corporate documentation for the NRO and the NRO incorporation is now ongoing. Other things which EC does is the coordination between Number Council. So we usually have the onsite meeting with the NC in APNIC meetings and also have, also we have the mailing list for online communications. And we have the three Number Council member within the Asia Pacific region. Two is elected at large and the other one is appointed by the EC. So we just elected Mao Wei from CNNIC for the year 2006. Where is Mao Wei. OK. Here is Mao Wei and also Kenny here, these two are the Number Council from the Asia Pacific region. We have one from Korea, but he didn't come here. Fees. We had a big discussion for maybe one year or so for the NIR fee. So, right now, the NIR has a per-address fee structure to adjust the - you know, the NIR has the ordinary membership category but NIRs have a very big address space which is distributed to the NIR members. So that fee should be a bit too low. So the per-address fee is for the adjustment of that. But in this time, we sometimes have to make a very huge allocation to our member and the per-address fee went up very oddly, very strange, strange size. So it is a big concern from the NIR community. That's why we had, we have been discussing about this. And also the EC had made a decision to make a 90% discount for the IPv6 per-address fee in April. But, of course, we have more, you know, long-term, better-fit solution. So we start to start, you know, intense discussion and we had a special session for the fee structure revision in this week. And the Secretariat made a scenario. It is not only the fixing the NIR issues but also targeting 10% to 15% increased revenue and rebalancing the fees between the very small members and very large member. It has, for example, 256 times as much for example. That's a very big difference so we need some rebalancing and also we that scenario had integrated the fix for the NIR fees. Then the Secretariat scenario was discussed and their members put out a very good point to be fixed in the scenario. So we decided to have the mailing list for the discussion for this fee issue. So I encourage you to join that mailing list to have a discussion, to have a good shape, to have our fee structure in good shape. Online voting - we finally applied online voting to the membership vote and this time we have, we have the online voting to the EC election. And this time online voting itself is already, already come to the deadline and we - yes, it is already done. And we are just having result of that. And then there will be a paper ballot today. OK, we have two more slides, I have two more slides. One is the corporate governance. So, yes, as you see, APNIC has the very balanced budget and also we have the increased concern to the check and Balfour the APNIC's business operations. So we are now having the fee revision and that kind of will be considered more. The EC has started to discussion about how to improve the situation. So right now we are now considering about the enhancement of the treasurer function. So we have the three holder - chair, secretary and treasurer. So our idea is to take advantage of this existing scheme to have the better control on our operations. Or we can have another special committee as appropriate so that could be one of the scenarios. APRICOT 2007. Now, you know, it will be held in Bali. But Bali has, as you know, concern for the security. So many security advisories has, you know, something for that. So it is a concern for the APNIC membership. APRICOT 2007 itself is just a gathering of engineers from the Asia Pacific region or other regions but, in our case, in the case of the APNIC, it is the membership meeting and APNIC need to go for the participation of the membership. So we have some, you know, higher responsibility to determine something to go with. And APIA/APRICOT board has decided to go with the Bali proposal and that's why we had some, you know, banners and something for the Bali - APRICOT 2007 in Bali. And EC has determined to go with the Bali scenario formally in EC meeting with assumptions to double-check for demonstrated safety, which is Indonesia committee has kindly presented every staff for the demonstrating that it's very safe. And also the EC ask Secretariat to do some on-site investigation additionally. And also APNIC will provide sufficient information to make confident to go to Bali. Personally speaking, yes, I want to go to Bali. That is a very fantastic island. And everyone, many, many people, thinks about that. But the issue is not a bit different from that. So we provide sufficient information to membership and encourage them to come to APRICOT 2007. That's all from me. Thank you very much. If you have any questions or comments? And you can easily find apnic.net/ec website for the information. Thank you very much. PAUL WILSON: Please feel free to approach the microphone if you'd like to ask a question.