Wohoo! (WEF Weblog) Singapore is the world’s top economy in exploiting global IT developments, according to the world Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005. The US ceded its top spot and dropped to fifth place, while the Nordic countries continued their impressive track record. Asia performed extremely well this year, as did Estonia, South […]
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Successful trial at APRICOT2005
APEET Press Release: Singapore, Mar 4, 2005 – Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team (APEET) announced the successful conclusion of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial at APRICOT 2005. The Live Trial conducted by APEET involves loaning Wifi SIP phones, sponsored by Hitachi-cable, preconfigured with an ENUM number and SIP account. Participants in the Live Trial was […]
.net domain name “tax”
Was scanning through some of my old comments and thought this conversation with Mark Mueller is interesting enough to be reposted. James, Would be interesting to hear your view on ICANN’s intention to charge a per domain fee of $1 in the “.net” space? I believe they will not only start charging in the “.net” […]
A Call for Resignation
This was posted to GA (General Assembly) mailing list by Danny Young: I would like to begin by thanking Thomas Roessler and Esther Dyson for their service on the At-Large Advisory Committee and applaud their decision to resign in order to better pursue other endeavors. I now call upon the remaining members of the At-Large […]
News report on APEET
Reported on Nikkeibp (Sorry, Japanese only): アジア太平洋地区におけるENUMの普及団体APEET（Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team）が，国内初となる公開通話デモンストレーションを実施している。2月21日から25日にかけて京都で開催中のインターネット基盤技術のアジア太平洋国際会議「APRICOT2005」の会場内で，参加者同士が自由に体験できる。実験の責任者である日本レジストリサービス（JPRS） 技術研究部の米谷嘉朗部長代理によると，「ENUMの実験を国内で一般公開するのは初めて」だという。 (my bad translation: APEET conducted the first telephony trial in Japan. Participants at APRICOT 2005 can experience the new technology and make calls freely among themselves from 21st to 25th. Yoneya-san @ JPRS “This is the first public ENUM trial in Japan.”) The […]
Kyoto Day 3
Couldn’t sleep and woke up at 6am. Went downstair to do my emails, met Toru Takahashi and went breakfast with him. Found out from him that one of his company is going IPO…again. To be exact, third time now. Remember, the last time I met him in Korea a year ago, same thing happened. Dunno […]
APEET Bert
Kyoto Day 2
[In case it is still not obvious, all my travel entries are really for my wife (and my boss) who wants to know what I have been up to.] Started early and have breakfast with Marc Blanchet, the former co-chair of IDN WG with me. Anyway, Marc is back doing IPv6 and his small startup […]
Kyoto Day 1
Have breakfast at Suguru Yamaguchi. I know him when he is still a “young” professor many years ago but now, he is the IT Security Advisor to the Japan Cabinet and Prime Minister. Wow very important person now! Anyway, have a little discussion with him on privacy and asked him to hook up with Joi. […]
Giving out WiFi SIP Phones
This is an exciting day for me. We are giving out Hitachi WiFi SIP Phones at APRICOT 2005. This is part of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial we have been putting together for the last few months. Every wifi phones are assigned with a SIP address which also comes with an ENUM1 number and this […]