Event Wrap: Infotel 2014
Vivek Nigam and Pubudu Jayasinghe attended the event to meet up with Members and provide updates and improvements of APNIC’s services.
Vivek Nigam and Pubudu Jayasinghe attended the event to meet up with Members and provide updates and improvements of APNIC’s services.
Monday saw the last of the issues related to the documents in the Ad Hoc Group on Internet related matters, and a number of matters passing through the Working Group of the Plenary.
It was a long weekend of work that focused on the Internet-related resolutions.
LACNIC suggests the creation of ‘MONC’ as an RIR accountability measure.
It’s Day 9 and we are mid way through the Plenipotentiary. All delegations are deep into Ad Hocs and informal groups negotiating consensus texts, sometimes with progress, but often without. As always the Internet issues remain contentious with virtually no prospect of consensus.
Security Specialist Adli Wahid conducted a workshop on “Internet for Investigation” and presented on “Securing the Internet of Things”.
There was a lot of discussion and some resolutions in the Ad Hoc groups, but the bigger issues are simmering in the background. The hardest work of the conference is still yet to come.
Monday of the second Plenipotentiary week here in Busan began with a statement from Secretary General Touré about the reduction of Member State contributions to the ITU.
It was a day of discussion centred on Resolution 130: Strengthening the role of ITU in building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies and Resolution 101: Internet Protocol-based networks.
Two interrelated topics dominated discussions during the recent ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles: the IANA stewardship transition and ICANN’s Accountability.