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ICANN Board Election Comment Phase extended

The Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) advises that the public Comment Phase in the selection process to elect a representative to serve on Seat Number 9 of the ICANN Board, is extended to 23:59 (UTC) Thursday, 27 April 2012. Interview Phase is also extended and will now include the period during the Address Council’s face-to-face meeting on 26-27…


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ICANN Comment Period on GPP-IPv4-2011

Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding (ASO MoU), the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) has completed a final review of the global policy proposal: “[GPP-IPv4-2011] Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA”. The proposed policy governs the redistribution of address blocks returned to IANA. The policy calls for IANA to accept return of…


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Reminder: ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 9 on the ICANN Board

We are about halfway through the ICANN Board Seat 9 nomination phase, which ends on 16 January 2012. If you are considering nominating someone, do not wait until the end of the nomination phase. Nominees will need time to complete the necessary documents, and furthermore, the ASO AC Qualification Review Committee will need time to review those documents and select candidates. This must all be done by the close of the nomination phase.


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NRO/ASO Maintenance Work Scheduled for Saturday, 3 December

On Saturday, 3 December 2011, maintenance work will be conducted on the backend storage for the NRO/ASO websites and mailing lists. The websites will be inaccessible for a period of approximately one hour at some point during the maintenance window of 9:00 – 17:00 CET (GMT+1). Email will also be unavailable while the website is down, and any email received will be queued for delivery once operations resume.


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