<span style="font-family: Courier New;">_______________________________________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">APNIC at IGF in Hyderabad, India, 2008</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">_______________________________________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) facilitates discussions on Internet</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">governance issues that affect multiple stakeholder groups. It includes</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span
style="font-family: Courier New;">a wide variety of discussions on Internet governance including Internet</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">security, privacy and trust, multilingualism on the Internet, and how</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">to increase global access to the Internet.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Management of critical Internet resources</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">-----------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Discussions focussing on the transition from
IPv4 to IPv6 will be in</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">the spotlight, illustrating the continuing importance this subject has</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">in the Internet today.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">APNIC will represent the Asia Pacific Internet addressing community at</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">IGF 2008 by:</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> - Participating as a member of the Number Resource Organization </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier
New;"> (NRO) in IGF workshops and main sessions </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> - Being available to talk to IGF attendees throughout the meeting </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> at the NRO booth in the IGF village </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> - Organizing the "Challenges facing Internet operators in </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> developing countries" workshop.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span><br
style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Join APNIC at IGF 2008 - apply for a fellowship </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">-----------------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">The IGF is open to everyone and registration is free. The meeting will</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad,</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">India, 3-6 December 2008.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">APNIC will also be offering a limited number of
fellowships to allow</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">members in developing Asia Pacific economies to attend IGF 2008.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Applicants must meet certain criteria in order to gain a fellowship.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">For more on fellowships, see:</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> http://www.apnic.net/igf/fellowship</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">For more on IGF 2008, visit:</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br
style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> http://www.intgovforum.org</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br />Regards, </span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">____________________________________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><br style="font-family: Courier New;" /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Srinivas (Sunny) Chendi email: sunny@apnic.net<br />External Relations Manager, APNIC sip: sunny@voip.apnic.net<br
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