APDIP will incubate IOSN and at the same time, look for a permanent home, or set of homes, for this initiative.

The Asia-Pacific region, being a vast area, it may in fact be desirable to have not just one but two or three IOSN nodes with responsibility over either sub-regions such as South Asia and the South Pacific, or specialized thematic areas such as local language fonts and character sets. A number of possibilities exist in China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and other countries for permanent home(s). They will all be explored.