Address Supporting Organization

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Address Supporting Organization

• Seoul, Korea August 2003

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Since Shanghai!

• AC traditionally reports on its progress
• Does this at RIR meetings
• Also in open forum at ICANN meetings
• ASO General Assembly Held in Santiago de
  Chile in April 2003

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Major Changes to AC

• ICANN Reform
• This is an ongoing activity
• Soon to be done
• Nominations Committee
• Formalization of AC Processes
• New faces on the Address Council

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ASO Address Council

• Address Council
• 3 representatives per RIR region
• Representatives do not represent RIRs directly
• AC nominees
• Not necessarily an RIR member
• All can participate in elections
• . . . Not limited to RIR members
• The role of the AC will be changing
• To meet new challenges
• To adapt to the new ICANN structure

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The ASO Address Council

• ARIN Region
• Eric Decker
• Mark McFadden (Chair)
• Kim Hubbard

• APNIC Region
• Takashi Arano
• Dr. Kenny S. Huang
• Seung-Min Lee

• RIPE Region
• Hans-Petter Holen
• Sabine Jaume
• Wilfried Woeber

• LACnic Region
• Raimundo Beca
• Hartmut Glaser
• Julian Dunayevich

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ASO Address Council

• Continued to observe progress in the
  establishment of AFRINIC new RIR.
• AFRINIC representatives have participated in
  current ASO activities and in the ICANN reform
  process

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ASO Address Council

• Other Activities
• Establishing standard BoD selection process (to
  be published shortly for public comment)
• Establishing a standard process for
  nominating representative to NomCom
• Discussion ongoing to review RFC 2050 and its
  current relation to active policy.
• Global Mailing list for discussion
• rfc2050-wg_at_arin.net

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ASO Address Council

• Working on a new strategy to promote
  international participation
• Electronic voting
• Workshops and information gathering
  sessions
• Chair has circulated a Roadmap
  Document to the AC for 2003
• Held a workshop in Amsterdam in January

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ASO Address Council

• AC is working with the RIRs on ICANN
  reform process discussions
• Stand ready to facilitate/work with the RIRs
  and ERC in negotiation for a new MoU in the
  reform environment
• RIRs have asked for formal input
• AC has met informally with ICANN ERC
• Two AC members principles document

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Survey on Reform

• ASO AC Conducted a survey among its member on
  reform and the relationship between the RIRs and
  ICANN
• The results are from a very small, but
  representative part of the community
• Here is a sample of those results

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Reform Survey Part 1

• 100 of those responding said that the reform
  should continue to be an ASO
• When asked about the role of the ASO
• 100 said it would elect ICANN BoD
• 100 said it would elect ICANN NomCom
• 100 said it should advise ICANN on global
  addressing issues
• 100 said it should coordinate global
  addressing policy development

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Reform Survey Part 2

• Not much agreement on the size of ASO
• 50 said not significant issue
• 87 said that RIR community should elect either
  two or three ASO members
• 67 said that RIR Boards should elect one member
  to the ASO
• 10 said that the ICANN NomCom should have a
  role

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Reform Survey Part 3

• Agreed to electronic voting
• Agreed to the concept of temporary observers

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Nomination Committee

• ICANN has a Nominations Committee
• Nominates people to the ICANN BoD
• AC is responsible for one delegate
• Election took place in February 2003
• Please to have German Valdez
• Started work on NomCom immediately

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Questions?

• aso-policy_at_aso.icann.org