APRALO

ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At Large Organisation

"At-Large" is ICANN's (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) name for individual Internet users who want to be involved in issues that affect individuals' use of the Internet's domain name system. ICANN At-Large consists of an international "At-Large Advisory Committee" (ALAC) and user groups throughout the world working together to form five "Regional At-Large Organizations" (1 in each geographic region; "APRALO" in Asia Pacific) that inform and involve the world's Internet end-users in issues that affect the future of the Internet. ICANN At-Large provides crucial contributions to ICANN's work on such matters as:

   * guidance on how internationalised domain names ("local language" domain names) are implemented;
   * how new top-level domains (i.e. .info, .name, .museum, etc.) are introduced;-
   * How to manage the implementation of a new IP addressing system to make sure there are enough unique addresses so the Internet can grow without constraints or instability

These are just a few of the issues that affect individual users worldwide currently being worked on at ICANN. At-Large is also a leading voice for ICANN stakeholders on Internet Governance and issues related to WSIS follow-up, and helps raise awareness of key Internet resource issues that affect ICT development.

For more information, or to join APRALO, please visit us online at http://www.apralo.org