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The first draft of the Internet numbers community’s response to the Request For Proposals issued by the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG) is now published. This draft has been prepared by the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) team, and we are now seeking feedback on this draft from the global community.
Draft proposal: https://www.nro.net/crisp-proposal-first-draft
The deadline for providing feedback is 5 January 2015
How to engage in discussions:
All global discussions the CRISP team will consider as community feedback will be conducted on the <ianaxfer@nro.net> mailing list.
Subscription to the global mailing list:
https://www.nro.net/mailman/listinfo/ianaxfer
Key points:
Key dates:
References:
Discussions by CRISP Team
Details of all the CRISP team’s work to date, including recordings, minutes and agendas of all CRISP teleconferences and a public archive of the internal CRISP team mailing list, are available at: https://nro.net/crisp-team
All CRISP team discussions are open to observers.
Other links:
ICG request for proposals:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-09-03-en
The IANA Stewardship Transition Discussion in each RIR region:
https://www.nro.net/timeline-engagement
The Team that was formed by the ICANN community to develop a charter for the Enhancing ICANN Accountability Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) has now published a draft charter for community consideration.
The Draft Charter includes, among other things: a problem statement, goals and objectives, scope, and proposed areas for work. Under the Draft Charter, the CCWG is expected to organise its activities into two Work Streams:
Each ICANN Supporting Organization (SO) and Advisory Committee (AC) will consider the proposed Draft Charter during their upcoming November meetings. Following the adoption of the charter, the relevant SOs and ACs will identify representatives to serve on the CCWG. In addition, a call for volunteers to join the CCWG will be launched, so that anyone interested in this effort may join and participate.
The CCWG is expected to commence its deliberations in late November or early December.
More Information on CCWG drafting team
More information on Enhancing ICANN Accountability
Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) calls for nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board of Directors.
Nominations will close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 31 December 2014.
The time frame for the selection process is as follows:
– Nomination Phase – 24 October 2014 to 31 December 2014
– Comment Phase – 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2015
– Interview Phase – 1 February 2015 to 31 March 2015
– Selection Process – 1 April 2015 to 17 April 2015
– Due Diligence Review – 18 April 2015 to 31 May 2015
– Announcement – no later than 1 June 2015
The ICANN Bylaws state that no two directors selected by a Supporting Organization can come from the same Geographic Region. Because the ASO AC selection for Seat 10 is from the APNIC region, nominees for Seat 9 cannot also come from this region.
All candidates must sign a Letter of Certification declaring that they are of good character. The selected candidate will undergo an independent due diligence review by an ICANN contractor, and announcement of the candidate will follow once this review has been successfully completed.
Community members are invited to submit nominations by email to nominations2015@aso.icann.org, including the following information:
– The 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
– The 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
The election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO AC Operating Procedures
For further information and ongoing notices about the selection process, please visit:
https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2015-elections/
The ARIN Board reappointed Ron da Silva as member of the NRO Number Council. Ron will begin serving a three-year term on 1 January 2015.
Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at: https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/the-nro-number-council
As part of APNIC 38 in Brisbane, Australia, the APNIC community elected Dr Ajay Kumar as a representative of the Asia Pacific Region to the ASO AC/NRO NC. Dr Kumar will replace Naresh Ajwani who served in the Address Council from 2009. Dr Kumar’s term will begin on January 1st 2015 and end on December 31st 2016.
In the same meeting, APNIC Executive Council Chair, Maemura Akinori, announced the extension of Aftab Siddiqui’s term in the ASO AC by one year. Aftab has served in the ASO AC since January 1st 2014 as the appointed member of the APNIC Executive Council. Aftab’s new term will conclude on December 31st 2015.
More information on the APNIC ASO AC/NRO NC selection process
Advice from the ASO Address Council to the ICANN board and to the ICANN Staff performing the IANA function on implementation of Global Policy for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries
Preamble:
In line with the ASO Address Council’s responsibility of “providing advice to the Board of ICANN on number resource allocation policy, in conjunction with the Regional Internet Registries,” laid out in the ICANN/ASO MoU, ICANN on 15 April 2014 wrote to the ASO Address Council seeking guidance on the interpretation of the Global Policy for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries, which was ratified on 12 September 2010.
The request specifically stated the following:
The RIRs have raised a question about allocations of AS Numbers to the RIRs and whether their holdings of 16-bit AS Numbers can be set to one side when evaluating a request for additional AS Numbers from the IANA AS Numbers registry.
The policy says:
“This means until 31 December 2010, RIRs can receive two separate ASN blocks, one for 16-bit ASNs and one for 32-bit only ASNs from the IANA under this policy. After this date, IANA and the RIRs will cease to make any distinction between 16-bit and 32-bit only ASNs, and will operate ASN allocations from an undifferentiated 32-bit ASN allocation pool.”
Our questions include (but are not limited to):
1. Does this give ICANN any flexibility to still allow RIRs to maintain a separate 16-bit pool when evaluating AS Number requests?
2. How does this policy relate to regional policy, if at all?
This is the formal response to the request for guidance from the ASO Address Council to ICANN.
Advice:
After consultations with the Internet number communities through the respective RIRs, the ASO Address Council has drawn rough community consensus and advises IANA to implement the Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries as follows:
1. When judging if an RIR is eligible to receive (an) additional ASN block(s) from the IANA per section 3, the IANA must consider utilization of the total undifferentiated pool of ASNs that contains both 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs (ranging from 65536 – 4294967295).
2. How RIRs manage their undifferentiated pool is within each RIR’s consideration per their operating procedures and policies.
Note that treating the 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs (ranging from 65536 – 4294967295) differently could lead to a condition where one portion of the undifferentiated pool is completely utilized, while the other portion is underutilized causing the total utilization to be low enough to prevent the RIR from being eligible for additional ASNs.
3. The ASO AC would like to reaffirm its advice given in June 2013 that “There is no requirement in the policy to form the block of 1024 AS Numbers from a contiguous set of numbers, thus allocating from 2 or more different value-ranges is acceptable.”
Per this advice, the past practice that an RIR has the option of requesting a block of 1024 AS Numbers that consists of a non-contiguous block of a specific amount of 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs may continue.
Louie Lee
Chair, ICANN ASO Address Council
The Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is pleased to announce that it has re-appointed Hans Petter Holen as their delegate for the 2015 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). The ASO AC unanimously supported Hans Petter’s nomination during its monthly teleconference on August 6th 2014.
The NomCom is an independent committee tasked with selecting eight members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN’s structure. The 2015 NomCom is expected to select three Directors of the ICANN Board, three members of the ALAC, two members of the GNSO Council, and one member of the ccNSO Council.
Developing a single proposal for future oversight of the IANA functions will require the coordination of many different viewpoints from stakeholders around the world. To facilitate this process, a Coordination Group of 25 representatives from a range of interested stakeholder groups is currently being assembled. The structure of this Coordination Group is explained here:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-06-06-en
The Coordination Group will include two representatives from the Number Resource Organization (NRO), which represents the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). It will also include one representative from the ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO).
The five RIR communities are each discussing the transition of IANA oversight in their own forums. The two NRO representatives and one ASO representative will ensure that the output of these discussions is fed into the global discussion and reflected in the final proposal to the NTIA.
The NRO Number Council (NC) is made up of 15 community members elected by the five RIR communities. They carry out the role of the ASO Address Council in the ICANN policy-making process.
In their 4 June meeting, the NRO NC agreed on three candidates to represent the ASO on the Coordination Group, and to forward these names to the NRO Executive Council (made up of the five RIR Directors) for a final decision:
https://aso.icann.org/meetings/aso-ac-teleconference-held-on-wednesday-june-4th-2014/
The NRO Executive Council met on 17 June and agreed to appoint Hartmut Glaser, a Number Council member from the LACNIC community, to the Coordination Group:
http://www.nro.net/meetings/meeting-of-the-nro-executive-council-140617
It is expected that the Coordination Group will have its first meeting in mid-July 2014.
The LACNIC community reappointed Jorge Villa as member of the ASO Address Council / NRO Number Council. His new term will begin on January 1st, 2015 and expire on December 31st, 2017.
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