Che-Hoo CHENG on CircleID

Che-Hoo CHENG

Interim CEO, DotAsia Organisation Limited
Joined on April 13, 2005
Total Post Views: 0


	About


	Send Message


	RSS

Information about this member is not available yet.

Website

Comments

Story Behind .ASIA

Comment posted Apr 14, 2005 12:54 pm PDT — by Che-Hoo CHENG
Before jumping to conclusions, I urge everybody to visit our website at www.dotasia.org to take a look at our materials including our well-thought out proposal to ICANN and have a sense of the level and variety of support that we have obtained from our community (see http://www.dotasia.org/about/members.html & http://www.dotasia.org/about/initialboard.html) Maybe let me give you a little bit of background information of our .ASIA initiative first. Prof. Kilnam Chon of Korea (one of the Internet pioneers in Asia) initiated the idea of .AP several years ago, laying the seeds of the initiative already. From early 2003, the current team adjusted the idea to .ASIA as a Sponsored gTLD based on a bottom-up approach. Initial responses were very positive and when ICANN issued the RFP for sTLDs in December 2003, the initiative began to formalize and take shape. When the proposal was submitted to ICANN in mid March 2004, 7 ccTLDs (.CN, .ID, .JP, .MO, .NU, .TW and .VN) as well as APNIC and APNG already participated as members. Since then, recruitment of members continued, and as of now, there are already 20 participating ccTLDs (including .KZ, .TJ & .UZ from Central Asia, .AF, .BT, .IN & .IR from South Asia, .KH, .PH & .SG from South-East Asia, .KR & .MN from East Asia and .NZ from Pacific) plus APNIC, APNG and PAN/IDRC. The initiative will continue to welcome and recruit members even after it obtains approval from ICANN, and eligible organisations in the region can join at their own pace and become equal members. Upon the establishment of the initial board and initial advisory council by well-respected individuals from different areas of our community (see http://www.dotasia.org/about/initialboard.html), all are actively updated and involved, along with members and potential members, in the activities of .ASIA. It is worth to note that Afilias� involvement as a registry services and technology provider is well defined and well understood, and it does not and will not interfere with policy formulation functions of the .ASIA registry. Our members and supporters share the dream of having our own Asia-focus TLD. And, we want to leverage and bring together the collaborative spirit of the Internet community in Asia to further the continued growth in and around the region. So, .ASIA is indeed an initiative of our community. I hope that it is much clearer to everybody now. Thanks a lot. Che-Hoo CHENG For and on behalf of Initial Board and Initial Advisory Council DotAsia Organisation Limited

Topic Interests

DNS, Top-Level Domains, Regional Registries

Recent Blogs

There are no featured blogs by this member yet. View More

CircleID

Che-Hoo CHENG

Comments

Story Behind .ASIA

More on Story Behind .ASIA

Topic Interests

Recent Blogs

Popular Posts