APNIC's obligations a. APNIC must:
APNIC's obligations. APNIC must: Establish and maintain mechanisms, which support open communications within the Asia Pacific Internet community, for the development of policies and procedures relating to Internet resource management; Promote and support training and educational activities relating to the development of Internet services and responsible management of Internet resources; Undertake other activities as required by APNIC’s Members in support of Internet development within the Asia Pacific region; Consider all requests relating to the operations of APNIC that are made by APNIC’s Members either directly or through the Executive Council; Ensure that the Executive Council considers all requests relating to the operations of APNIC that are referred to it either by APNIC’s Members directly or through APNIC; Provide rights and services (including delegated resources) to the NIR Member in accordance with the APNIC Address Management Policies; Not disclose to any person (except to its general Secretariat, Internet administration authorities, staff, and contractors performing necessary work for APNIC who sign a non-disclosure agreement, or as legally required to do so) any confidential information which the NIR Member provides to APNIC; Maintain APNIC Address Management Policies in accordance with its policy development process, and make all reasonable efforts to keep current versions of those documents publicly available on APNIC’s website; Recognize and recommend the NIR Member as the chosen National Internet Registry for the country or economy concerned and as the registry of choice for ISPs, end users, and other customers in the NIR Member’s country or economy. The NIR Member acknowledges that if, at any time, APNIC reasonably considers that the NIR Member’s organizational or technical capacity is inadequate for it to thoroughly implement all aspects of APNIC’s Address Management Policies, then APNIC may, after giving the NIR Member at least 14 days advance written notice (setting out in such notice, the basis of APNIC’s consideration), temporarily suspend the provision of any registration or other services to the NIR Member whilst this situation remains.
