ASO AC Selects Ray Plzak to Serve on Seat 9 of ICANN Board of Directors

The ASO is pleased to announce that the ASO Address Council has selected Ray Plzak to serve for a three-year term on Seat 9 of the ICANN Board of Directors. Mr Plzak's term will begin on 7 May 2009.

The ASO congratulates Mr Plzak and would also like to thank the other four candidates who took part in the selection process:

• Rajesh Chharia
  
• Jordi Palet Martinez
  
• Barry Shein
  
• Suzanne Woolf

Mr Plzak's appointment follows a lengthy selection process, including a public call for nominations, interviews with eligible candidates, a public comment period and a vote by all ASO Address Council members. The Address Council confirmed the result at their meeting on 22 April 2009.

Full details of the process, including information on all eligible candidates, are available on the election pages.

Call for Comments on Nominees to Seat 9 of the ICANN Board

Following a public nomination period that closed on 22 February 2009, the ASO Address Council (ASO AC) selected the final set of candidates to fill the ASO seat on the ICANN Board. This seat is currently held by Dave Wodelet, whose term expires in May 2009.

• Rajesh Chharia
• Jordi Palet Martinez
  
• Ray Plzak
  
• Barry Shein
  
• Suzanne Woolf

The candidates listed above agree to serve in an ASO seat on the ICANN Board of Directors if selected by the ASO Address Council. In April 2009, the ASO AC will make its final selection to appoint one of these individuals to fill the ASO Board seat.

To aid them in making their final selection, the ASO AC members request public comments and statements of support for the candidates. The public comment period will remain open until 23:59 (UTC) on 9 April 2009.

You can provide your comments and statements of support for the candidates to the ASO AC Nominations Committee by sending an email to nom-com@aso.icann.org.

A digest of all comments sent will be published on the election pages.

Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space Ratified by ICANN Board

On 6 March 2009, the ICANN Board ratified the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space. The policy requires ICANN to reserve one /8 for each RIR from the IANA free pool. This has been done. The remainder of the implementation will be done once the once the IANA free pool has been fully allocated to RIRs. There are currently 32 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s. 27 are in the IANA free pool and five are reserved under the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space.

On 4 February 2009, the Chair of the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) forwarded the Proposed Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space for ratification by the ICANN Board. On 5 March 2009, the ASO AC submitted advice in full support of the proposal to the ICANN Board. This proposed global policy had been submitted to the ASO AC by the Executive Council of the Number Resource Organization (NRO) on 3 December 2008, and adopted by the ASO AC on 8 January 2009. Each RIR community individually discussed the policy and approved its adoption via its own policy development process.

The policy text is published on the ICANN web site at:
http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm

Comments invited to ICANN Board Review

In line with its Bylaws, ICANN performs recurrent reviews of its organization and working methods. A review of the ICANN Board is currently in progress and input from the addressing community to this effort would be much appreciated. The public comment period to the interim report of the ICANN Board Review Working Group is open until 17 April 2009.
Links

Board Review – Working Group Interim Report
Review of the ICANN Board of Directors

Call for Nominations for Seat 9 on the ICANN Board

In line with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Council calls for nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board.

The nomination period will close at 23:59 (UTC) on 22 February 2009.

All candidates must sign a Letter of Certification detailing previous conduct and character. We will send this letter to each applicant along with instructions on what to do next. We are unable to consider candidates who fail to follow these instructions.

If the Address Council decides to conduct face-to-face interviews, candidates may need to travel (once) during either March or April 2009.

We expect all candidates to complete one or more questionnaires. Failure to do this by the advised deadlines may rule them out of the selection process.

Submit nominations by email to secretariat@aso.icann.org including the following information:

• Full name of the person being nominated
• Contact email address for the person being nominated
• Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated
• Full name of the person making the nomination
• Contact email address for the person making the nomination
• Contact telephone number of the person making the nomination
  
  

NRO NC: Wilfried Woeber Selected as RIPE NCC Representative

Dear Colleagues

We are pleased to announce that Wilfried Woeber has been selected by the RIPE NCC Executive Board to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) for the RIPE NCC service region. He will serve a three-year term beginning 1 January 2009.

The selection was announced during the Closing Plenary session on Thursday, 30 October 2008, at the RIPE 57 Meeting in Dubai.

More information about the NRO NC and the selection process can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2008/

Kind Regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC

ARIN Announces NRO NC Appointment

ARIN is pleased to announce that Martin Hannigan has been appointed by the Board of Trustees to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council from the ARIN region. He will serve a three-year term beginning 1 January 2009. Martin's appointment is for the seat he currently holds as an elected representative on the NRO NC. Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at:

https://www.nro.net/about/number-council.html

Regards,

Raymond A. Plzak
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries ratified by ICANN Board:

On 31 July 2008, the ICANN Board ratified the Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries. This policy provides for the allocation of Autonomous System Number (ASN) blocks from the IANA to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). On 13 June 2008, the Chair of the Address Supporting Organization Address Council forwarded a Proposed Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers, ASNs, for ratification by the ICANN Board. This proposed global policy had been submitted to the ASO AC by the Executive Council of the Number Resource Organization on 28 March 2008, and adopted by the ASO AC on 12 June 2008. Each RIR community individually discussed the policy and approved its adoption via their own policy development processes.

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Call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region.

This is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number council (NC). The term of Wilfried Woeber, who was appointed to the NRO NC by the RIPE NCC Executive Board in January 2006, ends on 31 December 2008. The RIPE NCC Executive Board will select one representative from the nominees to serve a three-year term on the NRO NCC beginning 1 January 2009. The decision of the Executive Board will be announced at the RIPE 57 Meeting, which will be held in Dubai, UAE, from 26-30 October 2008.
The deadline for nominations is 22 September 2008.

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Call for Nominations: NRO NC ARIN Region 21 July 2008

This is an open call for nominations from the ARIN region to fill one (1) seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council that becomes vacant with the expiration of Martin Hannigan’s term on 31 December 2008. Candidates must be willing to serve a three (3) year
term beginning 1 January 2009.

Any individual residing within the ARIN service region may be nominated, with the exception of Regional Internet Registry staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. Please note that the NRO Number Council representatives now fulfill the role of [WINDOWS-1252?]ICANN’s ASO Address Council. Responsibilities of NRO NC representatives are outlined in the ASO Memorandum of Understanding at:

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NEW REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LACNIC REGION TO THE ASO ADDRESS COUNCIL/NRO NUMBER COUNCIL

LACNIC is pleased to announce the election of Francisco Obispo as the representative of the LACNIC region to the ASO Address Council/NRO Number Council. The election was held on May 28, 2008, during the LACNIC XI meeting in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Francisco was re-elected to occupy a seat in the Address Council from January 1, 2009, until December 31, 2011.

For more information on the ASO Address Council, see:

http://www.aso.icann.org/about.html

The Candidate's biography information is available at:

http://lacnic.net/en/anuncios/elecciones/2008/address-council/nominados.html

Member Services and Communications
LACNIC

New APNIC appointment to the ASO AC

Dear all,

The APNIC EC has appointed Mr Tomohiro FUJISAKI to the NRO NC (and therefore to the ASO AC), effective immediately. The appointment will fill the position recently vacated by Mr Toshiyuki HOSAKA, for a term ending on 31 December 2008. Please join me in welcoming Fujisaki san to the Address Council. With this email I also request the help of the NRO secretariat in updating the NRO website and mailing lists, which I expect will take a day or so.

All the best,

Paul Wilson,
Director-General,
APNIC

ASO New Chair Elected

We are pleased to inform you that the ASO-AC has elected Louis Lee as its Chair for 2008.

Louis will be assisted in his role by Sebastian Bellagamba and Hans Petter Holen as vice-Chairs.

Do not hesitate to contact us at secretariat@nro.net should you need any additional information.

Kind regards.

Adiel A. Akplogan
Secretary, NRO (2008)
On behalf of the ASO-AC secretariat
www.nro.net