CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in The one event where Asia Pacific Internet Infrastructure Engineers gather, talk tech and learn about the latest tools and techniques CwindowsTEMPnsmailL11.gif 26th Feb - 2 March 2001 Developing the Next Generation ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL INTERNET CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA _____ 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 http://www.apricot2001.net . Meawhile, sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please log on to http://www.apricot2001.net/participation/sponsorship.html 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