We are once again Platinum Sponsors of APRICOT! The nine-day summit will run from Monday 21^st February – Thursday 3^rd March 2022. Similar to previous years, it will consist of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums, all designed to share the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific Region.

Please note that Peering Personals will not run in the usual ‘on demand’ style. Peering coordinators will need to submit their Peering Personals prior to APRICOT 2022 conference week to ensure their information can be included in a master slide deck. On the day of the Peering Forum, the session chairs will give the floor to each operator who has submitted their Peering Personal. For more information about this change, please see the APRICOT website

Dr Karen Lee, Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Law, is undertaking research into the ways in which codes of practice are drafted; and why industry participants choose to engage in or disengage from in code development.

Using the development of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (C628: 2019) as a case study and interviews with differently situated members of the telecommunications industry, the research seeks to identify the consultation mechanisms used; the difficulties encountered when soliciting engagement; the barriers to participation (if any) that industry participants of all sizes might experience; the effect these mechanisms and barriers might have on the code development process, and measures that might be taken to alleviate or overcome these barriers in order to enhance the responsiveness of industry rule-making activities.

For further information about the project (UTS ETH21-6356), please contact Dr Lee at karen.lee@uts.edu.au.