##{"id":99701,"date":"2022-02-17T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/global-internet-pioneer-outlines-vision-for-asia-pacific-internet-governance\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:23:00","slug":"global-internet-pioneer-outlines-vision-for-asia-pacific-internet-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/global-internet-pioneer-outlines-vision-for-asia-pacific-internet-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Internet Pioneer Outlines Vision for Asia Pacific Internet Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1748326\/Larus_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><i><span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>-based <span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span> champions &#034;one world, one internet&#034;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">HONG KONG<\/span>, Feb. 17, 2022 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;Lu Heng, the CEO and founder of LARUS Limited, the global market leader in IP solutions, has unveiled his vision for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Executive Council (EC) elections. <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>APNIC, one of the world&#8217;s five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), is responsible for allocating and managing IP addresses and providing related services throughout the <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia-Pacific<\/span> region. As a staunch supporter of digital globalization and of the maxim &#034;<span class=\"xn-person\">One World<\/span>, One Internet&#034;, <span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span> argues for a fair internet experience, healthy competition and resolving pricing issues in the current IPv4 market, as well as accelerating the adoption of IPv6 being central to APNIC&#8217;s governance. <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on his one world, one internet vision <span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span> said, &#034;The governance and pricing challenges facing ISP companies in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">New Zealand<\/span> are the same as those in all APNIC member states including <span class=\"xn-location\">the Philippines<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Bangladesh<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Pakistan<\/span>. My two-year plan as an APNIC board member is to put the voice of all members, in all countries who are striving to build a fair and equal internet for the world at the very heart of APNIC&#8217;s decision making.&#034; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span> draws on his more than ten years of experience in Internet governance within the RIR system. LARUS Limited, which <span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span> founded in 2016, is the only IP service provider in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span> and a leading IP solution provider worldwide, having leased more than 10 million IP addresses to date to customers in over 60 countries. <\/p>\n<p>APNIC is governed by the eight-member EC, which is composed of seven members elected for two-year terms, as well as the Director General of APNIC. &#160;Lu Heng is running for a seat on the APNIC EC, with voting scheduled to begin <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 17<\/span> and end on <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 3<\/span> at the conclusion of the 2022 edition of the Asia Pacific Network Technology Summit (APRICOT). <span class=\"xn-person\">Lu Heng<\/span>, who was nominated for APNIC&#8217;s EC by Huawei Singapore as well as two of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in <span class=\"xn-location\">Pakistan<\/span>, is keenly committed to APNIC&#8217;s core vision of &#034;a global, open, stable and secure Internet&#034;.<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the Executive Council is open to all APNIC members and will take place online through the MyApnic portal. <\/p>\n<p><i>For further information, please contact:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Melvin Cheng<\/span>, Director at LARUS LIMITED <\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Info@larus.net\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Info@larus.net<\/i><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.larus.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.larus.net<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1748326\/Larus_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1748326\/Larus_Logo.jpg?p=medium600<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong-based Lu Heng champions &#034;one world, one internet&#034; HONG KONG, Feb. 17, 2022 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;Lu Heng, the CEO and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}