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

Montréal, 7 November 2019:

The five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), have today signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The revisions to the MoU include the recommended changes outlined in the 2017 Independent Review of the ASO.

Due to a tied eVote, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) has implemented the Run Off procedure in order to enable it to select a representative to serve on the ICANN Nominating Committee.

The Run Off procedure is described in section 7.4.4 of the ASO AC Operating Procedures.

New Timeline 

Start of Run Off eVote: 23 August 2019
End of Run Off eVote: 27 August 2019
Announcement of selected candidate: 28 August 2019

Further Information: 

– Nomination Call for Representative on 2020 ICANN Nominating Committee  
– Deadline Extended: ASO AC Call For Nominations for the ASO Representative on the ICANN NomCom

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) was established by the NRO Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed in 2003 and 2004 by the RIRs, which also defines the NRO Number Council (NRO-NC). The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) was established by the ASO MoU, signed in 2004 by the NRO and ICANN, under which the NRO-NC serves as the ASO Address Council (ASO-AC). The ASO MoU also defines the role of the ASO-AC, which includes advising the Board of ICANN on proposed global number resource policies.

Each RIR’s (Regional Internet Registry) community selects two people to serve on the NRO-NC/ASO-AC. Each RIR’s Board also appoints one person from its respective region to serve.

The role and responsibilities of ASO-AC members are defined in the ASO MoU and in the ASO-AC Operating Procedures. All ASO-AC members are expected to adhere to this and any Council member who does anything which falls outside the defined scope does so in their personal capacity rather as a member of ASO-AC, or for the ASO-AC .

Members of Address Council “do not” speak on behalf of the Council. Address Council members can only make statements on behalf of Council if it is the clearly stated position of the Address Council. Kindly review the ASO MoU for all the details.

Aftab Siddiqui
ASO AC Chair.

In line with the ASO Review 2017 “Recommendation #16: For its internal communications, and for most matters related to the operations of the ASO, the ASO should favour the use of a publicly archived mailing list. In exceptional circumstances, for issues (e.g. Board appointments) that cannot be discussed in public, a non-publicly archived list should be used“, a new publicly archived mailing list, ac-discuss@aso.icann.org, has been implemented for the ASO AC to carry out its day-to-day operations. The ac-discuss mailing list replaces the ac-coord mailing list, which has now been closed.

Subscription to the ac-discuss mailing list is limited to current ASO AC members, designated RIR and ICANN staff observers and the ASO/NRO Secretariat. Non-member posts are subject to moderation.

The ac-discuss archived can be accessed here

A private, ASO AC member-only mailing list, ac-internal@aso.icann.org, has also been implemented to enable the ASO AC to discuss internal matters, such as ICANN Board Seat Election candidates. This mailing list is not publicly archived.

You can find an overview of all current and past ASO mailing lists here

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 the SOs and ACs.

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 2020 as delegate of the ASO.

The term for the selected delegate will be one year starting in ICANN 66 in Montreal, Canada, in November 2019 (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 monthly teleconferences (typically 15:00 or 16:00 UTC). Note that the committee’s workload
  will increase significantly during Apr/May/June 2020 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.
• The person should be able to join (in person), three ICANN (66, 67 and 68) meetings and an intersessional meeting (location decided by NomCom 2020). Travel support for all meetings is provided by ICANN.
• The person must be able to attend the NomCom selection meeting in late June 2020 during ICANN 68.

The ICANN NomCom has a set of guidelines and procedural documents for reference that provide additional information about the work of the NomCom.

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 2020 ICANN NomCom: 5 July 2019
• Nomination period ends: 28 July 2019
• Evaluation of nominations by the ASO AC: 28 July – 7 August 2019
• Voting period by the ASO AC: 7 August – 14 August 2019
• Announcement of selected delegate: 15 August 2019

All nominations should be sent to secretariat [at] aso [dot] icann [dot] org by 28 July 2019 23:59 UTC.