______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 11.00am Presentation: Election procedure Presenter: Paul Wilson ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: What we have to do now is just to prepare for the EC election, which is under way right at the moment. But it's normal at this time to explain, for me to explain the election procedure, which isn't odd for any of you who have not been through it before. And to give the election candidates a chance to say a few words, for anyone who wishes to do that, and to answer any questions you might have about the voting procedure. Let me bring up the details on screen. At this time, with this annual meeting of the APNIC membership, there are three seats on the APNIC EC that are being vacated. It has seven members and members are elected to 2-year staggered terms. Last year four seats were filled, were elected, and this year three seats, and four again next year. The three positions which are up for renewal are held by Akinori Maemura, Che-Hoo Cheng and Vinh Ngo. Those three candidates who were elected today, in those three positions, will serve for two years starting from today, from March, 2006. We have had a call for nominations which has been opened in accordance with the APNIC by-laws, it closed on February 17. And voting is open to APNIC members only, in accordance with the by-laws. And furthermore, members can vote online, these days, by MyAPNIC. That voting process opened on February 22 and it closed 48 hours before this meeting. So closed at 9am on Wednesday, March 1. Using MyAPNIC, I think it was made clear to all members and MyAPNIC users that online voting was available to the registered corporate contacts for the APNIC members and anyone who used the system would know how that worked. And those of you who didn't are encouraged to consider it for next time. Proxy voting is also available in accordance with the by-laws. Some of you may be carrying proxies for people who couldn't make it to the meeting. Ballot papers should be distributed already, that don't have to be collected any further, that is, if you're an APNIC member, you should have a number of ballot papers anywhere between 1 and 64 in your name. If you're carrying proxies for others, you may be carrying even more ballot papers than that. The voting on site is only going to be open until 2pm today, that's to enable the counting to proceed this afternoon so that we can have an announcement before the end of the day. And I'll just say again it has to close at 2pm. If you try to return ballot papers after that, they just cannot be accepted because the counting has got to start. So if you're aware of anyone who may be interested in voting and not in the room, please, let's encourage them to come and submit their votes. The battle box is over here on the table and someone will be looking after that ballot box from now until 2pm. The voting entitlement, as I mentioned, you may be carrying between 1 and 64 votes. You get votes that are allocated to you in accordance with your membership category. Please check your membership category and the number of ballot papers that you have and make sure it makes sense. The papers are being carefully counted and tracked. But it's important that you check for yourself that everything is in order. The ballot paper looks like this - (holds up ballot paper) - I'll explain on screen how it works. Your ballot papers contain the unique stamp on the back, which has been added this morning. And that indicates it's a valid live ballot paper. And the scrutineers will be checking that as they come, the votes as well. OK, the top of the ballot paper, as I show on screen, has got the six candidates who are running for the election. Because three of these candidates are being selected in this election, what you are asked to do is place a X against the names of up to three, no more than three. You select by crossing in the box the three you wish to select for this election. You need to do that separately on each one of your ballot papers. Your ballot papers don't have to carry the same vote. You can vote differently on different sets of ballot papers if you wish to do that. It's optional voting, so you could place one, two or three crosses against those candidates of your choice. The second part, the bottom part of the ballot paper indicates again, for your information, the voting entitlements of the different tiers of membership. It stresses your vote is not right if you don't cross the right ones. It will be scrutinised shortly. Some or all of your votes via the APNIC online voting system, the ballot papers that you hold will be in accordance with that. If you've cast all of your votes previously, you will not have any entitlement to vote again. You may have cast half your votes, in which case you should have the remaining entitlements available to you to vote on paper. OK, at this point, there are six nominees and I would like to invite them, in this order, if they wish, to come and say a few words. Make a brief presentation to the crowd. Che-Hoo Cheng, please. One candidate who is not present, who has provided a brief video greeting to you, that will be played in due course. CHE-HOO CHENG: My name is Che-Hoo Cheng. I've been with APNIC for eight years. I was first elected in 1998 when David Conrad was the director general of APNIC. I was involved in hiring Paul and I participate and contribute in the development and growth of APNIC during the last eight years. It is really my honour to do so. And I still want to contribute to the APNIC community. There's a good mix of old blood and new blood. I'm old blood. So, old blood can help to provide the history and also because we are familiar with everything. So we can help to maintain the continuity of the services and things like that. The new blood can help to bring in new ideas and help us to improve even faster. And APNIC is not perfect. There is always room for improvement. Going forward, there are several party items that I think we need to put more effort on. For example, the APNIC membership, that actually is a very key issue. The issue actually was recognised for a long time. I think it's time to do something so that we can, you know, have a fee structure that can be fairer to everybody and also at the same time help APNIC to maintain the financial stability. That's one of the issues I myself would contribute and participate more in. Another issue is the corporate government issue. We have more corporate governance measure. I think we do need to have improvement at that part. But I'm also not for overly do this kind of measure because we have to maintain a balance between corporate governance and the operational efficiency. Operational efficiency is also very important to the operation of APNIC and we need to maintain good services and we need to continue to facilitate the policy in the process, effectively, efficiently. And, but, anyway, I think there is something that we need to do for the next two years and I will try my best to help on this issue. I think that's all I want to say. Thank you and I hope you vote for me. Thank you. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: The next candidate on this list is Abhisak Chulya. I know that he's not in Perth at this time but is there anyone who would like to say anything on his behalf? I will point out that the APNIC website has got all the details of the nominations in this election, including the nomination statements and details of the nominations that were submitted. You can find details on each of the candidates up there on the website. The next candidate is Sanjay from the ISP association of India. He is not in Perth in person, but he is right now watching the web cast of the meeting, with some colleagues from the ISP Association. And in the interests of bandwidth safety and so on, I suppose he has provided this brief video, rather than a web cam-type connection to us. PAUL WILSON: Can I ask the other candidates to be ready to come up when the time comes so we can finish well before lunch ends. SANJAY DWIVEDI: I want to give a short presentation in terms of why I would like to join the EC Council of APNIC. The company I work for in my day to day operations. We run broadband Internet services and NSL services and data centres and so on and so forth. I'm a product of the global world myself. I've spent 20 years in the UK. Three years in the US. The last five years have been hands-on in India. India itself, the story which is often talked about. The fact that India is now soon becoming a services powerhouse, a knowledge-based economy powerhouse. The fact that many services are being migrated to and from India. It is very, very interesting. All of this requires the Internet. Requires organisations like NXI to move large announcements of information. Between service providers -India NXI has gone through 0%. India's presence has gone forward. So India's presence on the Internet stage will be a significant one in the years ahead. India is not a new story. It has cultural and religious ties with China, Japan, Korea and many other players in the near and far east. Also many people have migrated to Singapore, Vietnam, etc. It's not new, but it's new. India's presence to the West and East combined to say many years are now interfaced with the Internet economy is proving to be important. So why would you vote for me? One, talking about my global business experience, my hands-on experience. I bring to the table a healthy dose of commercial common sense and a sense of humour. Secondly, APNIC's own values and current systems aspire to unity, diversity, multiculturalism and diversity. All of these I hold near to my heart. I hope to be contributing within the context of those values. We are one of the largest APNIC members in terms of IP addresses. As far as the EC membership goes, we're under-represented. This is not of great benefit to the Internet. The absence of India and the greater experiences for Indians, can come on board and bring something that's unique. We'd love to invite you all to India where we would love to do another SANOG and APNIC conference combined. The last SANOG 7 was extremely successful. It was a lot of fun, laughter, a lot of technical input. We would love to do that and show you the beautiful country India actually is. So thank you for listening to me. I look forward to meeting you soon. PAUL WILSON: Thank you very much and if Sanjay is online, I think we did all hear that presentation in spite of the technical hitches at the beginning. Akinori? AKINORI MAEMURA: I am medium blood, I think. I was first elected to the EC in the year 2000, in the first stand-alone meeting of APNIC meeting in Brisbane. And I have been in the EC 5.5 years. And I am, I have been chairing Executive Council for three years and I come to decide to run for the EC again because right now, as you see in today's presentation from Paul or myself, APNIC has the very difficult situation right now in terms of the different shape of the financial status and also we are now near to the exhaustion of IPv4. And the deployment of IPv6, we had more and more members, or on the agenda in Asia Pacific regions. Every year I have more and more difficult situation. And I think myself need to work some more for this community. I am responsible for the JPNIC IP department and run NIR business and our business is just the same as the RIR business but just limited to the nation. But I have a lot of similarity of course in the APNIC operations and I can bring my own idea from my experience of the operating IP department of JPNIC and vice versa. APNIC's experience has helped with my JP links too. And I am doing something for JANOG, and I am concerned about how to, you know, how people get together to exchange information to have the better coordination. That is maybe my, you know, primary concern. My will to work with this community and how to help the people all over the Asia Pacific region and other regions get together in a good shape to collaborate something too, produce something better. That is my motivation to run for this EC for the more two years. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE Please excuse me, I have to run for another meeting to attend the JPNIC General Assembly. So I am now running for it. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Next is Vinh Ngo. VINH NGO: Good evening to you. Thank you. It's an honour to stand here and speak to you. I was fortunate enough to get elected. My involvement in APNIC is dating back to about nine years when I resigned from Curtin University as a researcher. Ever since, my involvement with APNIC is on an ad hoc basis, and my personal commitment to join and nominate myself to the election. What I learn in the past two years is I think APNIC is a very interesting organisation. It's a multiculture. It has multiculture and different countries and different people working together. It gives me an opportunity to make new friends. If you read my nomination there - my background. I work for the second global biggest outsourcer company after IBM. My role is a national manager for network security. We look after customers locally in Australia, New Zealand, in the Asia Pacific, and extend to the US. Our clients ranging from Billiton, AMP, Rio Tinto, to name a few. I believe I have the qualification, the experience, and the expertise of these services to service my customers from a global perspective and to serve you our members. To fight for your interests, to work with you, so that it will make sure APNIC is a better organisation. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank APNIC's staff, you've done a tremendous job. For the last nine years in my observation, we've gone a long way. And without your effort, we wouldn't get this far. So thank you very much. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: The final candidate on this list is Michael Saunders. Is Michael here or anyone who would like to speak for him? Apparently not. OK. In that case, I think I have explained the details of the election process. Here it is just in summary. Check the stamps on your ballot papers. Mark up to three boxes, no more, with an X in each box. No more than three. And be careful to mark clearly. The votes will be collected after 2pm, 2pm is the deadline. And what I will need are some scrutineers to volunteer their services - Ray Plzak? I will ask those who have volunteered to come and assemble here as soon as this session ends in a few minutes and perhaps you can sort out how many are needed and so on and so forth. I can't tell you how many ballot papers there are to count. In the past we've had a lot. GERARD ROSS: There are 1,200. PAUL WILSON: There's about 1,200. We might need a few. If you could please come and assemble here as soon as I've called the lunch break and elect, please elect a spokesperson who can organise the counting and who can report back, probably around 4:15 to 4:30pm today. So I'd like to ask if there are any questions about the voting process? The scrutineers I think will be able to answer questions about the voting process, if there are any. There will also be an APNIC scrutineer or an APNIC staff member at the ballot box. Probably a scrutineer who could answer questions. So if there are no questions, then it's time then for lunch. A little bit later than we expected. Please be back at 2pm, however, for the afternoon's sessions. Thanks very much.