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.

For full details, the original announcement is available here.

Regards,

ASO Secretariat

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.

We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

NRO Secretariat

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that Wilfried Woeber was appointed by the RIPE NCC Executive Board to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term that runs from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014.

The RIPE NCC Executive Board Chairman, Nigel Titley, made the announcement during the Closing Plenary on Friday, 4 November 2011, at the RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna.

More information about the NRO NC and the selection process can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/nronc2011

Regards,

NRO Secretariat

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.
The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on 16 January 2012.

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. Additionally, the elected candidate will be subject to an independent due diligence review conducted by an ICANN provided contractor (election procedures section 7.4.9).  This review is similar to those performed with all ICANN Board selected candidates.  Announcement of the winner will follow the successful review report.

The ASO AC election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO Operating Procedures.

Article VI of the ICANN Bylaws states that: “At any given time, no two Directors selected by a Supporting Organization shall be citizens from the same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region.” The ASO AC selection for Seat 10 of the ICANN Board of Directors resides in the APNIC region, so nominees for Seat 9 cannot reside in the APNIC region.

If the ASO AC decides to conduct face-to-face interviews, candidates may need to travel (once) during March or April 2012.  Reasonable candidate interview expenses related to hotel and airfares will be covered.

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 nominations2012-at-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

Nominated candidates are required to complete and return the following two documents:

• Letter of Certification for ICANN Board of Directors Candidates
• ICANN ASO AC Board of Directors Nomination Process — Nominee Questionnaire

The full time frame for the selection process is as follows:

• Nomination Phase         1 November 2011 to 16 January 2012
• Comment Phase            17 January 2012 – 19 April 2012
• Interview Phase             20 February 2012 – 19 April 2012
  • The deadline for return of written questionnaires is 20 February 2012.
  • Telephonic and face-to-face interviews with selected candidates may take place.
• Selection Phase             23 April 2012 -14 May 2012
• Due Diligence Review  15 May 2012 – 15 June 2012
• Winner Announced       18 June 2012 (or earlier based on completion date of due   diligence review)

All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified.

Regards,
ASO Secretariat
secretariat@aso.icann.org

AfriNIC has received the following nominations at the close of nomination period on 16 October 2011:

• Douglas Onyango
• Jacobus Johannes Muller

Details of the nominees are published at:

https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-15/?q=content/nro-nc-election

The public comments period commences today and will close on 20 November during which period stakeholders are invited to post comments on the candidates’ suitability for election.

The comments period will be followed by elections to be held on 25 November during AfriNIC-15 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

ARIN is pleased to announce that Ron da Silva has been reappointed by the Board of Trustees to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council from the ARIN region. Ron will begin serving a three-year term on 1 January 2012. Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at http://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/the-nro-number-council

Regards,

NRO Secretariat

APNIC is pleased to announce that Tomohiro Fujisaki has been elected as a representative to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) for the APNIC region for a two-year term from 1 January2012 to 31 December 2013.

Election details can be found at http://meetings.apnic.net/32/elections.

The ASO is pleased to announce that the Address Supporting Organization Address Council
(ASO AC) has elected Hartmut Glaser to serve on the 2012 ICANN Nominations Committee.