IP: APRICOT'99

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I will be there giving one of the Keynotes Dave

APRICOT Registrations open from 4 January 1999 for APRICOT 1-5 March 1999
                        http://www.apng.org/apricot99/

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What is APRICOT?
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The annual Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational
Technologies (APRICOT) is an educational, non-profit, conference run by
volunteers to develop and maintain Internet operational stability in Asia
Pacific Region. APRICOT's Mission is to develop and advance the skills and
understanding necessary to grow a robust Internet infrastructure in the Asia
Pacific region.  APRICOT is about bringing the world's top Internet experts
together with those who can benefit from their knowledge.

Since 1996, APRICOT has provided a unique and successful forum for those key
Internet builders in the region to learn from their peers and other leaders
in the Internet community from around the world.

The intense week-long summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials,
conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums all with
the common goal of :

+ Spreading and sharing the knowledge required for operational stability and
development of the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.

+ Developing affinity groups that foster mutual support throughout the year.

APRICOT's success is due to the excellence of its no-nonsense program
focused on the operation of the Internet - technical, business, and policy.
Its importance is demonstrated by the fact that it is the only conference in
which all of the key Internet operations group in Asia and Pacific meet for
the annual and semi-annual meetings. Hence, APRICOT is in reality the
critical Internet summit for Asia and Pacific. (see below: APRICOT Week
Overview)

APRICOT is not an Internet Marketing Conference. APRICOT is about bringing
true subject matter experts together with those who can benefit from the
information the most. APRICOT provides a unique, vendor neutral forum for
frank discussions on the skills and technologies that are either at the
heart of today's Internet or very likely to see operational deployment
within 12 months. It allows attendees to synchronize with the rapid
developments in the wider Internet and an opportunity to dispel market
"hype".

The people who attend APRICOT are the real people building the Internet in
the Asia & Pacific region. Many of best Internet engineers and key decision
makers attend APRICOT either to teach, present, or do their own
"networking".

Where to get more information?
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It's all up on the web: http://www.apng.org/apricot99/ or
http://www.apricot.net


APRICOT Stakeholders
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What makes APRICOT so valuable is the number of groups in the Asia & Pacific
Internet Community that come together and co-locate their meetings. Here are
a few of the groups co-locating activities for APRICOT99.


LINUX User Group - The Singapore LINUX Conference 1999. March 5th - 7th. It
will be the first time a conference focussing on Linux is being held in
Singapore, let alone Asia. http://www.slc99.linux.com.sg/

Asia & Pacific Networking Group (APNG). APNG is an Internet organization
dedicated to the advancement of networking infrastructure in this region,
and to the research and development of all associated enabling technologies.
Its mission is to promote the Internet and the coordination of Network
Inter-Connectivity in the Asia Pacific Region. http://www.apng.org APNG will
be having it's annual meetings, tutorials, and conference co-located with
APRICOT.

Asia Pacific Security Incident Response Coordination WG (APSIRC). APSIRC WG
meeting will be held on the evening of 1 March 1999. For more details,
please subscribe to the mailing list apsirc () apng org by sending a message
"Subscribe" to apsirc-request () apng org or check the web at
http://apsirc.singcert.org.sg/

Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).  The NIC project of APNG
has led to the formation in 1993 of the Asia Pacific Network Information
Center (APNIC). Since the, APNIC has gained independence of APNG and gone
from strength to strength to its recent in corporation in 1996. APNIC will
be having it's annual general meeting on March 6th along with APNIC
Tutorials http://www.apnic.net/

Asia & Pacific Internet Association (APIA). APNG fostered a Commercial
Working Group through the mid-1990s. In 1997, this WG spawned off to become
the Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA) of today. APIA membership spans
the Internet trade and business communities of the AP region.
http://www.apia.org  APIA will be having it's annual general meeting on
March 6th.

Asia & Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD). In view of the urgent
need to coordinate and organize the region's country code Top-Level Domain
holders. APNG has initiated with other AP organizations to form the APTLD
forum which had held its inaugural meeting in July 1998.
http://www.aptld.org

APPLe - Asia & Pacific Policy and Legal Forum. To promote and facilitate
exchange of information and consultations between the Internet industry and
governments and regional/international organizations, with the goal of
facilitating the balance between industry self-regulation and government
regulation. http://www.apng.org/apple/

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The Internet is
undergoing some fundamental administrative changes with respect to Internet
Domain Names and Internet Protocol Addresses. The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be having a special meetings and be
the #1 topic for the APRICOT Plenary. http://www.icann.org


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