The APNIC Executive Council report summarizes activities from 2014-2015, including: 1) The EC members for 2014-2015 and their meeting attendance. 2) An overview of the EC's functions in governing APNIC and setting policies. 3) Details on APNIC's finances, including a fee reduction and new expense reporting codes. 4) Results from the 2014 APNIC survey that guide future planning.

1. APNIC Executive Council
Report
APNIC 39 Meeting
6 March 2015

2. APNIC EC members for 2014-2015
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3. Functions of the APNIC EC
• Represent the interests of Members in the
governance of APNIC
• Oversight of APNIC’s activities
• Consider broad Internet policy issues for APNIC’s
strategic direction
• Set membership fees
• Endorse the policy consensus toward
implementation
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4. EC meeting record
EC Members 28/02/2014 12/05/2014 15/09/2014 27/11/2014
28/02/2015
02/03/2015
Akinori
Maemura
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Che-Hoo
Cheng
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Kenny Huang ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
James
Spenceley
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Gaurab Raj
Upadhaya
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Ma Yan ✔ ✔ ✔ - ✔
Wendy Zhao ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Paul Wilson ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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5. Finances
• One of the responsibilities of the EC is to set the
fees for membership and APNIC Services
– APNIC fee reduction for all account holders from 1
January 2015
– The revised fee schedule aims to provide the greatest
benefit to the majority of Members, with smaller and new
Members receiving relatively more discounts
• New set of APNIC’s activity codes for budgeting
and expense reporting
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6. APNIC Survey 2014
• Positive rating for APNIC service delivery and
value
• APNIC values feedback from Members and the
community
• Results of the 2014 survey guide APNIC’s planning
for 2015-2018
• EC response to APNIC Survey 2014 published
• Track APNIC Survey Response Activity
– www.apnic.net/survey
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7. Community engagement
• First meeting of the Cooperation SIG held on 3
March 2015
• Provides Members with a forum to discuss matters
relating to Internet public policy and governance
• Draft Charter was agreed
• Dr Govind elected as Chair
• Billy Cheon elected as Co-Chair
• sig-cooperation@apnic.net
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8. APNIC accountability and
transparency
• Creation of the RIR Accountability Matrix by the NRO, which compares
transparency and accountability mechanisms across the five RIRs
• APNIC Transparency page updated
– http://www.apnic.net/about-APNIC/transparency
– The new Activity Plan and Budget is available
– New activity codes created to track all expenditure
– The Five-Year Strategy document published
• Declaration and Register of interests of EC members
• Strengthened internal financial audit process
• Rotation of external financial auditors every five years
• Price Waterhouse Coopers appointed as new auditor
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9. IANA stewardship transition
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10. EC appointment to the NRO NC
• The EC appoints one member to the Number
Council for a one-year term
• The EC reappointed Aftab Siddiqui to the NC for
2015
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11. Coming up…
• Review of options for “development” area
– Fundraising and partnerships
• Further review on NIR framework
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12. Member feedback
• We welcome comments, suggestions and
questions from Members, stakeholders and all
others with an interest in APNIC
– New EC submission feature on MyAPNIC
– Email to exec-sec@apnic.net
– Face-to-face during APNIC conferences
– Meet the EC events
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13. Questions?
EC Meeting minutes and other information
http://www.apnic.net/ec