______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 4.00pm Presentation: Next meeting, thanks & closing Presenter: Paul Wilson ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: We'll move on to what is happening with the next APNIC meetings but first let's have a look at this meeting and those of you who registered to be here know we did ask a few demographic-type questions during the registration process. Let's have a look at what the meeting attendance looked like in this case. We had a total of 236 registrations for this meeting, of which 151 turned up. I don't know what happened to the rest. We're always trying to give people enticements to register early in order to let us know as soon as possible what sort of size we need to cater for in these meetings. Registering accurately is probably also useful in that we'd hope that we have attendance a little - as close as possible to the total registrations. But that's where we are. We've done a breakdown of attendance or registrations by country code and we have many countries. Of course, this meeting being in Australia has 86 registered Australian participants. I'm sorry, this font is rather small, but we had 33 from Japan, 22 from mainland China, 20 from the US, 13 from Indonesia, 12 from the Netherlands, 11 from Singapore. 9 from Taiwan and New Zealand, 8 from Vietnam, etc, etc. Quite a number of countries there. Was this the first APNIC meeting? 46% said yes, which is quite nice to know. We ask about connectivity options. ARIN has already - Ray mentioned that they're scaling back the terminal room in terms of its role in connectivity. It seems to be more a coffee shop in future at ARIN meetings. But, with 10% of people saying that they want to use the terminal room, I guess we'll continue with the facility for a little while longer until literally everyone has got laptops and wireless connectivity, right, Bill? And 3% not needing Internet connectivity at all. Where do you all come from? 49 from Internet service providers - 49% that is. 15% from Regional Internet Registries. 11% from others. 8% from National Internet Registries. 7% from other Internet organisations. 4% from ccTLDs. 3 from Internet hosting or applications providers and 3% from vendors. What role do we play? 37% - network engineers. 31% - managers. 8% - CEOs. 18% - other. 5% hostmaster. 1% trainer. We might need to do a breakdown of other categories and find out a little bit more about where they fit. But that's all we have on the demographics of the meeting. If anyone's got some ideas for interesting questions we could ask, then please let us know. So moving on to the next meetings. We have two APNIC meetings each year. The first meeting happens with APRICOT around this type of the year each year and the secretary meeting happens in late August or early September. We have a bidding process where we ask - we issue a call for proposals each year for - in particular for the stand-alone APNIC meeting, the September meeting, and we go along with APRICOT for the other meeting. We had a call for proposals for the next meeting, for APNIC 22 and it is going to be, by a decision of the APNIC EC this week, it is going to be in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from the 5th to the 8th of September this year. This is the second stand-alone APNIC meeting hosted by TWNIC and we know that TWNIC know what they're doing and will certainly put on a good meeting for us. Is Jeremy available to come and tell us a little bit about it? CHAIRMAN OF TWNIC: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am the chairman of TWNIC. And it is my pleasure and honour to express sincere invitation to all of you to join the next meeting to be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, which is very friendly city. As you know, actually, Kaohsiung has similarity to Perth. It's located in the south-west of the island. Although, Australia is a very big island. OK, we also have harbour and river. Here is Swan River and ours is better. We have Love River. And in order to make the meeting more interesting, we would like to suggest that we will include rafting and hot springs in our program. We would like to invite people to come up with new proposals and new ideas and finally have a new feature. We would like to suggest you stay longer for our scenery. There is a famous museum, the Paris museum. We would like to suggest you visit the highest building, right now, in the world, it's 101 Towers. Let's meet in September in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. PAUL WILSON: I thought I'd move up here for the closing of the meeting and thanks to many people who've helped with holding this meeting. We do also have the location, as you heard, for APNIC 23, which will be in Bali in Indonesia and, as Maemura-san mentioned, the EC have looked at this location quite extensively and heard some detailed presentations about the situation in Bali and the EC is aware of travel warnings issued by, I think, three countries at this stage but has decided that, under the current circumstances, that the meeting in Bali can go ahead and we'll certainly be keeping a close watch and issuing information about that and hoping for a very successful and pleasant meeting in Bali. The 24th APNIC meeting has not been announced yet but today is the day for the announcement of the call for proposals and that's six months earlier than we have traditionally done it. What we are trying to do in this case is to issue the call for proposals 18 months out to have the decision made in six months' time and announced at the next meeting in Taiwan and that gives 12 months for preparation for the successful bidder. Because, as TWNIC now knows, six months is not terribly long as preparation time for the meeting. So that's what we'll be doing. I'm not sure that the CFP document is actually available on the APNIC website right now but it will be in due course. GERARD ROSS: I think it's on the APNIC interactive CD. PAUL WILSON: OK. It's on the APNIC interactive CD and also on the meetings website. So, if you are interested in bidding, in issuing a proposal for this meeting, then there'll be a deadline some time in June. There'll be some discussions with the bidders about the - any missing details or aspects of their proposals. The proposals, the bidders, may be asked to come to the Taiwan meeting to have some discussions with the APNIC EC so that the decision can be made. So stay tuned - in six months' time, we'll know where APNIC 24 is to be held. OK. So this is really the closing of the 21st APNIC Open Policy Meeting and the annual member meeting for 2006 and we have four silver sponsors and once again I'd just like to say thanks very much to TWNIC and CNNIC and KRNIC of NIDA and JPNIC for agreeing to sponsor this meeting at the silver level. It is important to receive some additional funding so that the cost of the meeting for all APNIC members can be reduced and that's very much appreciated so I'd like to ask representatives from those four to come - we just have some certificates of appreciation for you and a round of thanks to these sponsors. APPLAUSE Thanks also to all the people who've contributed their time and efforts towards the preparation of the meetings - the SIG chairs, Xing Li, George Michaelson, Philip Smith, Kazu, Izumi and Kenny as well and the co-chairs, of course, who you work with. Thanks to Jordi for coming along and giving us the IPv6 training this week. Also to Dean and Lorraine, once again, from the Australian Caption Centre. They do this excellent job of translating what's said here into text on the screen and that goes out on the Jabber chat. And thanks also to everyone who attended and came along. This has been a pretty good turnout at this meeting and it's good to see the level of attention being paid and the level of interest in spite of the wireless network, I think. And the level of discussion too was maybe a little bit higher than normal during the open mic sessions, which is always good. I'd like to say thanks again to the people who have joined us from India. That's a new thing that has been organised by ISPI where we've got a one-way feed there and we may well be working with them in future to provide a two-way video conference, particularly in south Asia where there seems to be particular interest in there. So we may yet have to organise a third screen with the remote locations being shown. So that's it. Thanks to all of you. In the context of the APRICOT meeting, though, we would like to they the West Australian Internet Association and we have a certificate of appreciation for Gavin. Only a certificate but a sample bag. At previous meetings we've had a closing dinner which has grown and grown and we've decided to make that completely open and public. So, if you registered for that informal closing dinner - there won't be any speeches or formalities of any kind, then you're encouraged to come along to the Swan Room of the Hilton Hotel just across the road at 7pm. And, if you haven't registered for that, then you do need to buy a ticket actually and you can see APNIC staff about that. OK? So thanks again and see you all in Taiwan. APPLAUSE