ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) is responsible for the selection of eight ICANN Board Members, two directors of the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) and for other selections as are set forth in the Bylaws (see Article 8, Section 8.1).

The NomCom is also charged with appointing some members of the ALAC, ccNSO Council and the GNSO Council. The NomCom complements the other means for filling a portion of key ICANN leadership positions achieved within ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Councils.

As per the ICANN Bylaws (Article 8, Section 8.2), the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is pleased to invite nominations for candidates from the “Internet Numbers Community” to run for an open seat on the ICANN NomCom 2021 as delegate of the ASO.

The term for the selected delegate will be one year starting in ICANN 69 in Hamburg, Germany, in October 2020 (see Article 8, Section 8.3 for term limits).

All ICANN Bylaws described above can be found here.

Time Commitment for the ASO NomCom Representative

The person should be able to join (in person – ONLY when it is safe to travel and travel restrictions are lifted), three ICANN (69, 70 and 71) meetings and an intersessional meeting (location decided by NomCom 2020). Travel support for all meetings is provided by ICANN.

• ICANN69 – Annual General Meeting – 17-22 October 2020 – Hamburg – EUR
• ICANN70 – Community Forum – 20-25 March 2021 – Cancún – LAC
• NomCom Intercessional – Assessment meeting – TBD April 2021 – (Location tentative)
• ICANN71 – Policy Forum – 14-17 June 2021 – The Hague – EUR

In 2020 due to COVID19, NomCom has only conducted online meetings and this may continue in 2021 unless and until it is safe to travel. Online meetings take more time per week as compare to in-person. Please review the time commitments in view of COVID19. In case the global travel resumes and there is an in-person meeting, the travel support will be provided by ICANN. The ICANN NomCom has a set of guidelines and procedural documents available here for reference that provide additional information about the work of the NomCom.

The person should be able to join monthly teleconferences (typically 15:00 or 16:00 UTC). Note that the committee’s workload will increase significantly during Apr/May/June 2021 when the candidate assessment process will be at its busiest. Conference calls are held more frequently (typically weekly and the duration of the calls may last up to 3 hours) during this time.

Deadlines and Important Dates

The ASO AC will be responsible for the selection of the delegate based on the following timeline:

• Announcement of call for nominations for 2021 ICANN NomCom: 4 June 2020
• Nomination period ends: 17 June 2020
• Evaluation of nominations by the ASO AC: 18 June 2020 – 28 June 2020
• Voting period by the ASO AC: 29 June 2020 – 7 July 2020
• Announcement of selected delegate: around 8 July 2020 (second week of July)

All nominations should be sent to secretariat [at] aso [dot] icann [dot] org by 17 June 2020 23:59 UTC. with answers to the following questions (all questions are mandatory), you can also provide your CV as well.

1. Have you read the time commitment for NomCom and willing to commit the time required to fulfil this role?
2. Have you been part of NomCom in the past representing any other constituency?
3. How many ICANN/RIR meetings you have attended in last 5 years? and which SOs/ACs you actively follow?
4. Please share briefly, why do you want to join NomCom as ASO-AC appointee.

ASO Secretariat

Dear RIR Community,

On 7 May 2020, the ICANN Board of Directors adopted resolutions regarding the following:

• FY21-25 Five Year ICANN Operating and Financial Plan
• FY21 ICANN Operating Plan
• FY21 ICANN Budget

see https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2020-05-07-en#2.a

The approved FY21-25 Five Year ICANN Operating and Financial Plan is available at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/adopted-op-financial-plan-fy21-25-opplan-fy21-07may20-en.pdf, The FY21 ICANN Operating Plan is available beginning on page 177.

The FY21 ICANN Budget is available at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/adopted-budget-fy21-07may20-en.pdf

These resolutions (FY21-25 Five Year ICANN Operating and Financial Plan, FY21 ICANN Operational Plan and F21 ICANN Budget) are subject to Rejection Action Petitions from the community.

The ASO as a Decisional Participant received a notice from the ICANN Secretary pursuant to Section 22.4(a)(v) of the ICANN Bylaws.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article22

Any member of the ASO community can submit a rejection petition on the matter, if you are interested in submitting a Rejection Action Petition to the ASO please consult Section 2 of Annex D of the ICANN Bylaws for the requirements, which must be met by a Rejection Action Petition.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#annexD

The deadline for submission of your Rejection Action Petition to the ASO Secretariat (secretariat@aso.icann.org) is Friday 5 June 2020 at 23:59 PDT

German Valdez

ASO/NRO Secretariat.

On 27 December 2019, the Number Resource Organization (NRO), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), submitted an inspection request to ICANN regarding the Internet Society’s proposed transfer of ownership of PIR, the .org registry, to Ethos Capital.

On 4 February 2020, ICANN issued a response, which can be found on the ICANN website or here (pdf).

More information regarding this will be posted on this website when it becomes available.

Further information:

• The NRO/ASO’s role in the ICANN Empowered Community.
• ICANN Empowered Community Powers.

Dear colleagues,

As you may be aware, as a result of the successful IANA Stewardship transition in 2016, the IANA Numbering Services are today being managed through an SLA between ICANN and the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).

As part of the result of the IANA Stewardship transition, the IANA Numbering Services Review Committee (IANA RC) was established in 2016. The IANA RC is composed of representatives from each RIR region, and advises and assists the RIRs in the review of the IANA Numbering Services.

The IANA services are today provided by Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), which publishes monthly performance reports on the IANA Numbering Services.

Based on these monthly performance reports, the five RIRs have produced the 2019 IANA Performance Matrix Summary Report.

30 Day Public Comment Period

The IANA RC is now launching a public comment period of 30 days, seeking comments and input from the community on the IANA numbering services performance and the 2019 IANA Performance Matrix Summary Report.

The IANA RC encourages all members of the Internet number community to review the public IANA Performance Matrix Summary Report.

The IANA RC will publish an annual report in March 2020, as advice to the NRO EC with its evaluation of the IANA Numbering services. The

report will be based on the IANA Performance Matrix Summary Report, as well as any input gathered on the performance from the global number community.

All public comments will be published on the NRO Website in the dedicated IANA RC section, and will be considered as input to the final report by IANA. At the end of the 30-day public comment period, the IANA RC will meet and evaluate all input to the final report.

The IANA RC 2019 Report will be published here when finalized.

Kind regards,

Nurani Nimpuno
Chair, IANA Numbering Services Review Committee

Further Information

• IANA Numbering Services Review Committee
• Public Technical Identifiers (PTI)
• IANA Stewardship Transition Archive
• The SLA for the IANA Numbering Services
• IANA Stewardship Transition Number Community Proposal
• IANA RC Report 2019
• IANA RC Report 2018
• IANA RC Report 2017

The following representatives have been selected by their respective RIR communities to serve on the Number Resource Organization Number Council / Address Supporting Organization Address Council (NRO NC / ASO AC) in 2020:

• AFRINIC:  Mike Silber (Jan 2020 – Dec 2022)
• APNIC: Aftab Siddiqui (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021)
• ARIN: Martin Hannigan (Jan 2020 – Dec 2022)
• RIPE NCC: Filiz Yilmaz (Jan 2020 to Dec 2022)

Board Appointments
The following representatives have been selected by their respective RIR Boards to serve on the NRO NC /ASO AC in 2020

• AFRINIC: Wafa Dahmani Zaafouri (Jan 2020 – Dec 2020)
• APNIC: Simon Sohel Baroi (Jan 2020 – Dec 2020)

Thanks
The following community members are thanked for their contributions, dedication and service to the ASO AC over the years:

• Omo Oaiya (AFRINIC)
• Jason Schiller (ARIN)

Further information:

• Full details of the 2020 ASO AC/NRO NC can be found here.
• An overview of previous ASO AC/NRO NC members can be found here.
• Read the NRO NC / ASO AC Operating Procedures.

On 27 December 2019, the Number Resource Organization (NRO), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), submitted the following correspondence to ICANN regarding the Internet Society’s proposed transfer of ownership of PIR, the .org registry, to Ethos Capital:

From: Oscar Robles-Garay
To: John Jeffrey
CC: Maarten Botterman
CC: Göran Marby
CC: ecadmin [at] icann.org

ICANN Secretary,

The 5 Regional Internet address Registries (RIRs) have participated in ICANN since its inception, collectively in the names of the NRO (Number Resource Organization) and the ASO (Address Supporting Organization).

With the recent ASO Review, the NRO communities reaffirmed our relationship with ICANN as a critical component of the global Internet Governance ecosystem, and our participation in ICANN as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community.

The NRO has reviewed recent events surrounding the proposal by ISOC to transfer the ownership of PIR, the .org Registry, to Ethos Capital. While we do not normally engage in policy matters related to the DNS, we consider ICANN’s handling of this proposal to be an important Internet governance decision, with bearing on the community’s trust in ICANN, and the legitimacy of the ICANN model.

We have therefore agreed to issue an Inspection Request to ICANN (as follows), in the name of the ASO as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community. We believe that confirming the process that will be used for review of the assignment of the .org registry agreement, including the extent of public input into that process, will enhance the transparency of the decision making and strengthen public trust in ICANN.

Request:

“As a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community and pursuant to ICANN Bylaws section 22.7, the ASO hereby submits this Inspection Request to inspect the records of ICANN, including minutes of the Board or any Board Committee, for the purpose of determining whether the ASO’s may have need to use its empowered community powers in the near future relating to the potential assignment of the .org Registry Agreement. For this purpose, the ASO seeks to inspect any ICANN records which pertain to or provide relevant insight to the process by which ICANN will consider (and potentially approve) the assignment of the .org Registry Agreement, including the process by which input from the affected community will be obtained prior to ICANN’s consideration and potential approval of the assignment.”

Best Regards,

Oscar Robles-Garay

Chair of the NRO EC
(On behalf of the ASO as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community)

The Inspection Request is publicly archived on the ICANN Empowered Community Administration mailing list here.

More information will be posted as soon as it becomes available.

Further information:

• The NRO/ASO’s role in the ICANN Empowered Community.
• ICANN Empowered Community Powers.

In its capacity as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community, the NRO EC (acting as the ASO) has agreed to support the Fundamental Bylaws Amendment to Article 18, Section 18.7(b) of the ICANN Bylaws relating to the composition of the IANA Naming Functions Review as posted by the ICANN Board according to its Resolution 2019.09.08.05.

The ICANN Empowered Community Administration was informed of the ASO’s decision on Wednesday 27 November 2019.

Process

In accordance with its role as a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community, the NRO reviewed the proposed change and concluded that this ICANN Bylaws change would not impact the Internet Number community and allows ICANN to remain accountable to its Bylaws-mandated mechanisms.

As per Article 3 of the ASO Procedures for ICANN Empowered Community Powers, the RIR communities were informed and asked for Feedback. No feedback was received.

As per Article 5 of the procedures, the NRO EC subsequently held a teleconference on 26 November, during which the NRO EC determined whether to support, reject or abstain from approving the Bylaw Change.

Further Information:

• Announcement: ASO Use of Empowered Community Powers for ICANN Fundamental Bylaw Change

Due to recent changes in leadership at both AFRINIC and the RIPE NCC, the NRO Executive Council (EC) has adjusted its role rotation schedule for the remainder of 2019 and for the coming two years.

As of 15 November 2019, Oscar Robles, CEO LACNIC, will assume the roles of NRO Chair and the ICANN Empowered Community Decisional Participant Representative. As the incoming Vice Chair/Secretary in 2020, John Curran, CEO ARIN, will assume the role of ICANN Empowered Community Administration Representative as of this date. All other roles will remain the same for the remainder of 2019.

In 2020 the NRO EC roles are as follows:
LACNIC: Chair and ICANN Empowered Community Decisional Participant Representative
ARIN: Vice Chair/Secretary and ICANN Empowered Community Administration Representative
APNIC: Treasurer

In 2021, the NRO EC roles are as follows:
RIPE NCC: Chair and ICANN Empowered Community Decisional Participant Representative
LACNIC: Vice Chair/Secretary and ICANN Empowered Community Administration Representative
ARIN: Treasurer

More Information:

• ICANN Empowered Community