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On 23 August, the ARIN Board of Trustees appointed Kevin Blumberg to serve on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) from the ARIN region, filling the vacancy created by John Sweeting¹s resignation. Kevin¹s term will run through 31 December 2016. Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at: https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/the-nro-number-council In accepting his appointment, Kevin has resigned from…

Helsinki, Finland – 29 June 2016. The RIRs and ICANN signed the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA Numbering Services today at ICANN 56 in Helsinki, Finland. This agreement documents the arrangements for provision by ICANN of IANA numbering services, after the IANA stewardship transition which is expected to occur on 30 September 2016. The SLA will only come…

The ASO AC is pleased to announce that Maemura Akinori has been elected to serve for a three-year term on Seat 10 of the ICANN Board of Directors. Maemura Akinori’s term will start right after the conclusion of the ICANN 57 Meeting that will be held in Hyderabad in November 2016. A brief biography of Mr Maemura is available on…

11 March 2016, Marrakech, Morocco – An historic proposal for the global community to assume stewardship of the IANA functions, produced after nearly two years of work by the global Internet community, has been delivered to the U.S. Government for its consideration. The proposal would remove U.S. Government oversight over a set of fundamental Internet administrative functions, including management of…

Communication to IANA-XFER mailing confirming the ASO Approval to CCWG Final Report ======= Dear Colleagues, In response to a recommendation from the ASO liaisons to the CCWG, the NRO EC, acting on behalf of the ASO, has approved the CCWG WS1 report published at https://community.icann.org/x/8w2AAw As the Chair of the NRO EC I sent the following message to one of…

UPDATED FOURTH DRAFT SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT FOR THE IANA NUMBERING SERVICES (SLAv4) AND CALL TO ICANN TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SIGNING THE SLA 25 February 2016 Background On 15 January 2015, the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team submitted the Internet Number Community Proposal to the request for proposals issued by the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG). One of…

Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is responsible for the appointment of a representative to serve on Seat Number 10 of the ICANN Board. The ASO AC is pleased to announce the following candidates for its upcoming appointment. In accordance with the ASO AC election procedures, a comment…

The ASO AC has announced today it has extended its deadline for the nomination period for the selection of seat 10 on the ICANN Board of Directors. Nominations will close now on Thursday January 7th 2015 at 23:59 UTC As a consequence of the nomination period extension the new timeline will be as follows Nomination Phase   Wednesday 30 September 2015…

Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) calls for nominations for Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board of Directors. Nominations will close at 23:59 UTC on Sunday, 13 December 2015. The time frame for the selection process is as follows: – Nomination Phase – 30 September 2015 to…

On 22 September, the ARIN Board of Trustees appointed John Sweeting to serve on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) from the ARIN region for the remaining two years of Ron da Silva’s original appointment term, thus through 31 December 2017. John was appointed in July to serve out the end of the first year of Ron’s term.…