[Chapter-delegates] APNIC announces the Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust (APIDT)

[Veni Markovski]

Hi, fellow chapter leaders.
This news came from Australia today - and I think it's important enough
to share here:

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/03/25/announcing-the-asia-pacific-internet-development-trust-apidt/


The APNIC Executive Council is pleased to announce today the
establishment of the Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust (APIDT
<https://www.apidt.org/>).

APIDT was created in line with the wishes of the Founder of the WIDE
Project <http://www.wide.ad.jp/>, Professor Jun Murai of Keio
University, following his decision on the future use of IPv4 address
space in the 43/8 block, announced today
<https://blog.apnic.net/2020/03/25/announcement-regarding-ipv4-address-block-43-8/>.

The Trust will use the proceeds of the sale of the address space to
create a fund to benefit Internet development in the Asia Pacific
region. This will include funding technical skills development and
capacity building, improvements to critical Internet infrastructure,
supporting research and development, and improving the community’s
capability to build an open, global, stable and secure Internet.

The Trust will also be able to accept other contributions in future.

A corporate Trustee* has been established in Australia by APNIC and WIDE
Project, who serve as guardians of the Trust. All details including the
Trustee and Deed of Trust
<https://www.apidt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/apid-trust-deed.pdf> are
available at the APIDT website <http://www.apidt.org/>. The Trustee is a
member of APNIC, and has today received a transfer of the address space
(43/9, 43.128/10, 43.192/11) under the APNIC Historical Resource
Transfer
<https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/resources#8.3.-Transfer-of-Historical-Internet-resources> policy.

The next step will be for the Trust to determine a fair, transparent,
efficient and accountable process for the sale of the address space on
the IPv4 address market, in accordance with the original terms of the
transfer from the WIDE Project. For this purpose the Trustee will
engage KPMG <https://home.kpmg/au/en/home.html> and Maddocks Lawyers
<https://www.maddocks.com.au/> to help manage an appropriate and proper
process for the sale, in line with these objectives and terms, and all
applicable policies. KPMG and Maddocks will also serve as Probity
Advisors to assure and attest to the proper conduct of all transactions
involved in the transfer and sale.

The proceeds of the sale will be initially invested by the Trust, in a
fund whose proceeds will support Internet development in the Asia
Pacific region, through the APNIC Foundation
<https://apnic.foundation/> and other channels. For the APNIC
Foundation, the Trust will help to scale up and build on the
achievements of the past three years, which have included:

  * Training of more than 500 technical and cybersecurity staff in 11
    economies
  * Technical assistance for IXPs in five economies
  * The creation of CERTs and NOGs in five economies
  * More than 30 fellowships to technical training workshops and conferences
  * Investment of USD 500,000 in Internet operations research grants
    via ISIF Asia <https://isif.asia/>.

These positive outcomes have been achieved on relatively modest funding
of USD 1.6 million. The potential social and economic benefits to the
entire Asia Pacific region from the establishment of the APIDT are
therefore substantial.

On behalf of the APNIC membership and community, the APNIC EC thanks
Professor Murai for initiating this very exciting development, and we
reiterate our commitment to working together for the development of the
Internet in our region.

*APNIC will be holding a **live webcast Q&A session*
<https://apnic.zoom.us/j/909094443>* on Friday, 27 March at 13:30 UTC+10
to discuss the creation of the Trust, with all interested members of the
community invited to attend. Join the webcast **via Zoom*
<https://apnic.zoom.us/j/909094443>*.*

/*APIDTT Pty Ltd (Australian Company Number 638 389 072) as Trustee for
the Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust./



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Best regards, 
Veni
https://www.veni.com
pgp:5BA1366E veni at veni.com

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with or related to him in any given way. 

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