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APNIC is pleased to announce that Dr Kenny Huang was elected to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). Elections took place during the APNIC Member Meeting in Beijing on Friday, 28 August 2009.

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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.

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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

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

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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

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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 on the RIPE NCC website.

Kind Regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC

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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)

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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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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. Read more »