Update Summary of .Asia Bid

["Che-Hoo CHENG" <chcheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

After the proposal submission to ICANN on 16 March 2004, there have been some 
changes to DotAsia Organisation Limited (DotAsia; the sponsoring organisation 
of the .Asia bid).  The changes help DotAsia to have even broader community 
representation.  This message intends to help you get a clear picture of the 
up-to-date situation of DotAsia.  Here are the updates:


As of this moment, the organisations which have signed Letter of Intent (LOI) 
to join DotAsia as members are:

.CN - China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
.ID - Country Code Top Level Domain Indonesia (ccTLD-ID)
.IN - .IN ccTLD Registry   *** New ***
.IR - .IR ccTLD Registry   *** New ***
.JP - Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
.KR - Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC)   *** New ***
.MO - Macau Network Information Center (MONIC)
.NU - Internet Users Society - Niue (IUSN)
.NZ - InternetNZ   *** New ***
.PH - PH Domain Foundation   *** New ***
.SG - Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC)   *** New ***
.TW - Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)
.VN - Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC)
APNG - Asia Pacific Networking Group
APNIC - Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

All the LOIs can be found at http://www.dotasia.org/letters/.  The 
organisations listed above will become the Founding Members of DotAsia after 
the delegation of .Asia is done by ICANN, if ICANN approves it.


The Initial Board members in charge of DotAsia are:

Indra K. HARTONO (Managing Partner, ccTLD-ID)
Hirofumi HOTTA (Director, JPRS)
LIM Choon Sai (General Manager, SGNIC)   *** New ***
Tommy MATSUMOTO (Chairman, APNG)
Dr. SIR Jae-Chul (Vice President, KRNIC)   *** New ***
Richard ST. CLAIR (Co-founder and Technical Manager, IUSN)
Dr. THAM Yiu Kwok (Administrative Contact, MONIC)
Dr. TSENG Shian-Shyong (Chairman, TWNIC)
YU Yang (Commissioner, International Affairs, CNNIC)

The bio information of the Initial Board members can be found at 
http://www.dotasia.org/about/initialboard.html.


The Initial Advisory Council members who provide policy advises to DotAsia are:

Izumi AIZU (Member Asia / Australia / Pacific, Interim ALAC)
Dr. Vincent CHEN (Advisory Board, APNG)
Khaled FATTAL (Acting Executive Director, AINC)
Dr. Kenny HUANG (Advisor, CDNC)
Paul WILSON (Director General, APNIC)
Dr. XUE Hong (Member Asia / Australia / Pacific, Interim ALAC)

The bio information of the Initial Advisory Council members can be found at 
http://www.dotasia.org/about/initialboard.html.  More Advisory Council members 
from various different backgrounds will be appointed in due course.


Other supporters for .Asia bid include:

Companies / Organisations:

Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD)   *** New ***
Hon SIN Chung-Kai, Legislative Councillor, HKSAR
Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (CYBERPORT)
Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF) 
Hong Kong Information Technology Industry Council (HKITIC) 
Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA) 
Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC)
Hong Kong Telecommunications Users Group (HKTUG) 
Information and Software Industry Association, Hong Kong (ISIA)
Invest Hong Kong, HKSAR Government (InvestHK)
IP Mirror Private Limited (SGNIC-Accredited Registrar from Singapore)
Netpia.com (ICANN-Accredited Registrar from Korea)   *** New ***
Philippine Internet Service Organization (PISO)   *** New ***
Web Commerce Communications Limited (ICANN-Accredited Registrar from Malaysia)

Individuals:

Prof. Kilnam CHON   *** New ***
Khaled FATTAL   *** New ***
Dr. Kenny HUANG   *** New ***
Dr. Jin Ho HUR   *** New ***
Prof. Xing LI   *** New ***
Prof. MA Yan   *** New ***
Dr. Taeha PARK   *** New ***
Suresh RAMASUBRAMANIAN   *** New ***
J. William SEMICH   *** New ***
Gaurab Raj UPADHAYA   *** New ***
Sanjaya   *** New ***

All the support letters and support emails can be found at 
http://www.dotasia.org/letters/ or http://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-asia/.


Finally, I think it is worthwhile to re-emphasize the following points relating 
to the DotAsia Organisation and the .Asia bid in order to avoid possible 
confusion:

- DotAsia is a not-for-profit membership-based organisation with bottom-up 
structure.

- DotAsia's membership is opened to all eligible ccTLD managers and regional 
Internet/Telecom/IT organisations in the Pan-Asia and Asia-Pacific region.  

- Most, if not all, of our ccTLD members have close ties with their governments.

- DotAsia will continue to recruit members and seek inputs from the community 
even after DotAsia successfully gets the delegation of .Asia TLD from ICANN.

- Surpluses from the operations of DotAsia will be reinvested in 
socio-technological advancement initiatives relevant to the Pan-Asia and 
Asia-Pacific Internet community.

- As DotAsia will have contract with ICANN if ICANN delegates .Asia TLD to 
DotAsia, DotAsia will strictly follow the policies and guidelines developed by 
ICANN in all areas including, but not limiting to:

        - IDN
        - ICANN/IANA DNS Root
        - Whois

- Although ccTLDs are the key members of DotAsia, DotAsia's operations will be 
totally independent of individual ccTLDs' operations.

- DotAsia's technical operations will be fully standards-compliant.

- Registrants under .Asia will be required to declare their proof-of-presence 
eligibility and be subjected to the CEDRP (Charter Eligibility Dispute 
Resolution Policy), which will serve to curb abusive registrations.

- While the policy-making framework of the Board and the Advisory Council 
provides a foundation for broad cross-section participation and solicitation of 
public input, the policy-making processes of the DotAsia registry will serve to 
further ensure a community-based bottom-up approach.  Not only are members from 
a diversified base invited to raise issues of concern and matters of policy 
creation and amendments relevant to the DotAsia registry, the community at 
large will also be part of the policy-making process.


Hope that you are now clear about the up-to-date situation of DotAsia.  If you 
want to keep abreast of the development of DotAsia, please visit 
www.dotasia.org from time to time.  :)


With best regards,

Che-Hoo CHENG 
Interim CEO
DotAsia Organisation Limited