Asunto:	LACTLD Report
Fecha:	Thu, 9 Nov 2017 14:04:02 +0000
De:	Lim Choon Sai <choonsai@sgnic.sg>
Para:	Maria Fernanda Alvarez (fernanda@lactld.org) <fernanda@lactld.org>
CC:	Leonid Todorov <l.todorov@aptld.org> (l.todorov@aptld.org) <l.todorov@aptld.org>

Dear Maria

Please see our answers as attached below. These answers have incorporated the views and suggestions made by Leonid, the GM of APTLD.

Again, please accept my apology for the late reply.

Best regards,

Choon Sai

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1. What are the main challenges your members are facing today?

Ans: APTLD broadly has two groups of members: newly developed ccTLDs and well established ccTLDs> They face different challenges. For the former, they need lots of assistance to enhance their technical systems and policy formulation, and bolster their staff's competencies and skills. For the latter, they need to constantly find new ways of doing business to boost volume of registration in light of environmental changes and competition from gTLDs.

2. What are the main challenges your organization is facing today?

Ans: The main challenges of APTLD is to entice as many ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific to join the organisation to take advantages of services provided by APTLD and to render assistance to those members who urgently need capacity building in order to be self-reliant. That said, we should also come up with new initiatives aimed at cementing our extremely diverse community and to improve communication and interaction with our members.

3. What do you think about the cooperation that exists between regional ccTLD organizations?

Ans: The cooperation between the regional ccTLD organisations is far better than before, which should in part be ascribed to the recently signed MOU which has defined a framework of our collaboration. We keep each other informed of our activities and we meet on the side line of ICANN meeting to exchange views on issues of common interest to ROs. We encourage the other ROs send representatives to participate in our members’ meeting so that we can learn the best practice and experience of other regions in tackling issues of concern to the community. We align together as far as possible our interest on policy set by ICANN and lend a common voice. However, there always a room for improvement, of course.

4. What possibilities of increasing the ties between regional organizations do you see?

Ans: We should always be keen to maintain effective communication and information exchange between ROs, both on GM and Board levels; it could be productive to contemplate establishing the practice of member exchanges for each other Members Meetings and other events; a promising direction could be development an attempt to integrate operation of DNS Observatories, such as the LACTLD's one. In general, this question is worth discussing at one of our regular F2F Meetings and I am confident we could come up with new ideas.

5.      Do you envisage any collaborative project that may involve our regional organizations?

Ans: To some extent I have answered this already. Also, as a start, ROs can have a database which contains the information of common to all ROS so that each can learn from each other experience and adapt if applicable. Examples are:

·         Nature and Status of ROs (i.e. non-profit charitable organisation, or other forms)

·         Taxation and other legal obligation

·         Members financial contribution framework

·         Financial Control and Procurement Procedure at the Board

·         Policy Development Process

·         Policy framework of assistance given to members in terms of fellowship grant, capacity building training

·         Collaboration with other Internet stakeholders other than the ROs

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From: Lim Choon Sai
Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:05 AM
To: 'Maria Fernanda Alvarez'
Cc: Leonid Todorov; Santoyo, Eduardo; Melisa Gorondy Novak
Subject: RE: FW: LACTLD Report

Dear Maria

I received Leonid’s reminder to respond to this email. I am very sorry that I missed your email and I apologise for the delay. I have not opened the email as by looking at the subject, I thought I will read the LACTLD report when I am less tied up. I didn’t realise that there is a requirement for me to respond to the questionnaire contained in the email.

I will draft the response to your questionnaire and let Leonid take a look before I send the response to you. This will take a couple of days and I promise that will be sent to you by the end of the week. Is this acceptable to you?

Apologise again.

Choon Sai