Nominee: Maemura Akinori
Nominee details
| Name: | Mr Maemura Akinori |
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| Position: | General Manager, Internet Development Department |
| Organisation: | Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) |
| Biographical info: |
Mr. MAEMURA Akinori began his career in the Internet industry in 1994,
designing a nation-wide IP network operated by the NEC Corporation. Since then he has been involved in the Japanese Internet community as a founding member of the steering committee of JANOG (Japan Network Operators Group) and JPNIC activities in its IP address management business as a committee member and the Trustee-in-charge. After working for the France Telecom Group seven years from 2000, he joined JPNIC as General Manager for IP Department in 2007. He is now General Manager for Internet Development Department, which covers R&D, Domain Name issues and public relations since 2009. He has also been a member of the APNIC Executive Council since 2000, a visiting research fellow for GLOCOM (Center for Global Communication of the International University of Japan) since 2007, a visiting lecturer at Reitaku University since 2007, and Chair of the Publicity Working Group of the Task Force on IPv4 Address Exhaustion Japan since 2008. |
Nominated by
| Name: | Shigeki Goto |
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| APNIC Account: | JPNIC-JP |
| Motivation: |
His proven track record tells that Akinori has a truly balanced understanding of various issues of Internet governance, IP address policy, NIR (National Internet Registry) operation in Asia Pacific Region, and IPv4 address exhaustion. I believe his energetic contribution and efforts as an APNIC Executive Council (EC) chair for seven years out of his nine and a half years experience as an EC member had been extremely valuable to the whole APNIC community. I am sure that Akinori will continue to make a positive commitment to EC activities for the next difficult 2 years when IPv4 address exhaustion and IPv6 promotion become more important. |
Nominee statement
It is my honor to have another opponunity to run for the APNIC Executive Council.
To look back two years of my current term;
APNIC Community has had a substantial discussion on the policies regarding IPv4 address exhaustion. Prop-050 - IP Address Transfer Policy had been published in the beginning of the term, and finally reached consensus, and is about to be implemented. Prop-055 - Global Policy for the remaining IPv4 address space had been already published then, and now it has been ratified as a Global Policy at ICANN Board. a number of other policies have been discussed as well as these two.
The recent two years was the very term for deliberating the new fee structure. The EC took extra time to consider it through having additional retreats, bunch of study reports, a number of drafts, and public comments from Membership and the broader community. And finally issued the new fee schedule as the very first major amendment throughout a decade and more.
The life as an EC member for this two years was tougher and more substantial than past, by the things told above and some more, but I'd say it isn't meant to be enough, either that it has been over.
In the latter half of the coming two years, we will run out the IANA IPv4 address pool. We will finally see what it looks like, and what will be needed for the real operations of the Internet. We might need some new mechanisms to have the policies which we have produced and will produce from now on, practically work so that the Internet can work. APNIC will need to work very hard to prepare the post-exhaustion era in which APNIC's business is likely to be very different from what it is now.
If I successfully renew office, I will do my best for the APNIC Community, Membership and Secretariat, with all my expertise which I have obtained through experience as an EC member for almost a decade, including as the Chair since 2003, as well as those by JPNIC career.