This document provides
guidelines for respondents, which we hope will help people to participate in
and send written responses to the consultations we are carrying out.
This is the Second
Independent KPMG Survey commissioned by APNIC to gather information from APNIC
members and others, to help APNIC plan and improve its services to the
membership. Although this Survey is commissioned by APNIC, it is conducted
completely independently by KPMG ?as was the previous Survey.
KPMG is a financial advisory and consulting
firm of international standing. More information about KPMG can be obtained from
our website
www.kpmg.com or
www.kpmg.com.au.
While members will be familiar with the
operation and functions of APNIC, some newer stakeholders or potential
stakeholders may find it helpful at the beginning to visit the website
www.apnic.net
This site contains more
information about APNIC and its activities but also contains information on the
previous survey, the KPMG report and the APNIC response to issues raised in the
report.
We have prepared a set of
questions for APNIC members, and another set of
questions for other stakeholders. These are available from the survey website,
in HTML format or MS-Word for download.
No matter which category
you are in, please free feel to look at both if you wish ?this is a totally
open process.
Although the questions are
in English, respondents are free to use the AP language of their choice in
their responses.
Please feel free to add any
new questions to our Survey and provide your views on these issues.
After you have sent in a
response, you can continue to send us more of your views and thoughts
throughout this period of the Survey.
Please feel assured that
all responses are confidential to KPMG because we are an independent survey
organisation, and that no information in regard to your identify will be
conveyed to APNIC.
Over the next few months,
the KPMG Survey team will be travelling throughout the region to meet up with
Members and other stakeholders at various locations for gathering direct
feedback. A list of the meeting locations is found at the following weblink.
You are invited to come and meet us at the most convenient location.
The principal opportunity
for discussions will be at the APNIC Members Meeting in Taipei at the end of
August. This has been given the main
focus because we hope it will minimise the time and travel for those who wish
to participate. Finally, we hope to visit other important stakeholders in
Europe and North America to talk to them and receive their views.
To increase participation,
we have limited the size of the meetings to small groups where people can feel
freer to talk to us and to each other.
So you can email the contact person for your location, tell them that
you would like to talk to us and we can ensure that groups do not get too
big. So we ask you to look at the
schedule and send an email saying which time you prefer and it will be confirmed
back to you.
As I said earlier we would
like input from anyone who feels that a relationship with APNIC would be
helpful to them or APNIC. I believe
that members will best understand who are the appropriate departments, organisations
or individuals in their own countries.
So we would be grateful if you could forward this request on to any whom
you think appropriate and draw their attention to the wealth of background
information on APNIC’s website.