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The one event where Asia Pacific Internet Infrastructure Engineers gather, talk tech and learn about the latest tools and techniques

 
26th Feb - 2 March 2001

Developing the Next Generation

ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL INTERNET CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES
 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

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Last year's APRICOT 2000, in Seoul, was the largest technical conference gathering of Asia Pacific Internet Engineers and Operators so far.  The first APRICOT of the New Millennium, APRICOT 2001 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is looking to be even more exciting & worthwhile!

Apricot2001  will be hosted by the PIKOM, The Association of the Computer & Multimedia Industry of Malaysia and the Ministry of Energy, Communications & Multimedia of Malaysia.

As in the past, the week-long summit will comprise of workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, Birds of a Feather (BOFs), and other forums, all geared towards spreading and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.  Not forgetting of course, exciting social events have also been planned for this year's Apricot.

We have lined up some very distinguished speakers from the internet community including David Isenberg from Isen.com, Prof Jun Murai from KEIO University of Japan and Tan Sri Dr. Othman Yeop from the Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia.  Hot topics covered include:

                                IPv6
                                BGP
                                MPLS: Protocols and Applications
                                Gigabit Ethernet
                                Streaming and Multicast
                                Multilingual DNS
                                Traffic Engineering & MPLS
                                High Performance Routing
                                DNSSEC, Bind V9, IPv6 Bind
                                Network Security
                                APNIC Address Policy pt2
                                Optical Networking
                                Reverse DNS
                                Virtual Private Networks
                                Peering & Internet Exchanges
                                QoS
                                Panel ICANN UPDATE

We are pleased to invite you to participate in this important event.  The full conference program is available on the event site and registration can be submitted on-line at http://www.regweb.com/Apricot/2001.  Meawhile, sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please log on to http://www.apricot2001.net/participation/sponsorship.html for details.

We look forward to you joining us for the APRICOT2001 in Kuala Lumpur.  Should you have any queries, please e-mail me.
 

Kind regards,

Molly Cheam
Apricot2001 Secretariat
c/o PIKOM, Association of the Computer & Multimedia Industry Malaysia