Request for Proposals To Host APRICOT
This is the Request For Proposals (RFP) to host the prestigious APRICOT conference in your
economy please circulate it widely to other relevant or interested parties.
Since its founding in 1996, APRICOT has provided a unique and successful educational
forum for Internet builders in the region to learn from their peers and other leaders in the
Internet community from around the world. APRICOT has now clearly established itself as
Asia Pacifics premier regional Internet Summit where related organizations come together to
meet and host their annual general meetings.
The key benefit in attending APRICOT is to synchronize local and regional activities with the
rapid developments in the wider Internet in an objective manner that distinguishes between
operational realities and marketing 'hype'.
Meeting Structure
The entire APRICOT programme lasts for 10 days. The first 5 days include hands on
workshops, followed by 4 days of conference plenary intermingled with tutorials and
specialist parallel streams. The plenary include the meeting of APOPS, the Asia Pacific
Operators Forum. Closing off the APRICOT summit is the APNIC Annual Member Meeting.
The APRICOT Management Committee expect that the first workshop day will be on a
Wednesday and that the APNIC AMM will close off the summit on the following Friday.
Variations are possible, of course, by negotiation with the APRICOT Management
Committee.
In detail, there are 6 distinct parts to the structure of events during the APRICOT summit
the structure may vary from year to year, depending on local requirements. These include
workshops, tutorials, plenary conference, APNIC member meeting, as well as several side
events of the various AP organisations who host their meetings alongside APRICOT. The
main RFP text has more details.
A major part of the APRICOT programme is the APNIC Open Policy Meeting, which
provides APNIC specific tutorials and Special Interest Group meetings as a separate Stream
within the APRICOT programme. The APNIC Annual Members Meeting is held on the
Friday on the last day of APRICOT. APNIC is a major sponsor and supporter of APRICOT,
and members of APNIC are provided with a 25% discount on registration fees to attend
APRICOT. (APIA members also receive a 25% discount).
APRICOTs success is largely due to the excellence of its no-nonsense programme that is
focused on Internet operational issues (i.e. issues surrounding the smooth day-to-day
operation of Internet-based networks and services).
Whilst it is appreciated that there is a natural desire for each successive APRICOT to be
bigger and better than the previous one, APRICOT is primarily a conference with an
Executive
Summary
Our mission is to develop and advance the skills
and understanding necessary to grow a robust
Internet infrastructure in the Asia Pacific
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APRICOT RFP
educational objective. The primary desire is to bring the knowledge required to those that can
benefit most from such knowledge.
As such, organisations from a wide spectrum of economies are encouraged to submit a
proposal to host APRICOT if there is an expressed desire that such knowledge will be of
substantial benefit to the local Internet industry.
