From info at arin.net Mon Aug 1 11:25:52 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:25:52 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominations: ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council Message-ID: <579F6A00.70503@arin.net> ARIN Trustees and representatives from ARIN?s General Members in Good Standing are cordially invited to nominate candidates for two seats on the Board of Trustees and five seats on the Advisory Council to serve three-year terms beginning 1 January 2017. Board of Trustees Vint Cerf and Bill Sandiford and Advisory Council members Cathy Aronson, Owen DeLong, Scott Leibrand, Tina Morris, and Dr. Milton Mueller will conclude their current three-year terms on 31 December 2016. A nominator must be an ARIN Trustee or a representative from a General Member in Good Standing. Eligible nominators may make up to three nominations for each open seat. Any person may be nominated, consistent with the election guidelines. Self-nominations are permitted. ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. Nominations must be received by 5:00 PM ET on Wednesday, 31 August 2016. To submit a nomination now, please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ARIN2016 To view the initial requirements and responsibilities of the Board of Trustees and/or Advisory Council, please visit the respective page below: Board of Trustees: https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot_requirements.html Advisory Council: https://www.arin.net/about_us/ac_requirements.html All nominees must confirm that they qualify to serve and do not violate the Nomination and Appointment Conflict of Interest List at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/conflicts.html For detailed information on the Board of Trustees and Advisory Council nominations procedures, please visit: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html The ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council elections have a Nomination Committee (NomCom) that is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and certifying a properly selected slate of candidates to be placed in nomination before the ARIN membership for election, in accordance with ARIN Bylaws and procedures. This year?s NomCom members are Board of Trustee members Aaron Hughes, NomCom Chair, and Vint Cerf and general member volunteers Charles Gucker, Dmitry Kohmanyuk, Nathan Newman, Aaron Sawchuk, and Carl Williams. To learn more about the NomCom, please visit: https://www.arin.net/about_us/committeecharters.html#nomcom As a reminder, the voter for each ARIN Member organization must have a confirmed ?Voting Contact? Point of Contact (POC) record linked to an ARIN Online account to be eligible to vote in ARIN Elections. ARIN strongly recommends that all member organizations certify their voter eligibility in this year?s elections now and note the voter eligibility deadline is 6 September 2016. To view your organization?s Voting Contact log into your ARIN Online account and follow the steps at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/membership/votingcontacts.html For questions, or to request additional information or assistance, please email the ARIN Member Services team at members at arin.net with your request. Regards, Wendy Leedy Member Engagement Coordinator American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Aug 1 12:15:33 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:15:33 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominations: NRO NC ARIN Region Message-ID: <579F75A5.4080106@arin.net> Nominations are now being accepted for candidates from the ARIN Region to fill one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) that will be vacant when Jason Schiller?s term expires on 31 December 2016. Nominees for the NRO NC must reside within the ARIN Region and be willing and available to serve a three-year term beginning 1 January 2017. Incumbents may be nominated for consecutive terms. To view initial requirements and responsibilities of the NRO NC, please visit: https://www.arin.net/about_us/nronc_requirements.html All nominees must confirm that they qualify to serve and do not violate the Nomination and Appointment Conflict of Interest List at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/conflicts.html Any individual, regardless of ARIN Member affiliation, may self-nominate or nominate one or more candidates for any open NRO NC position. All nominations must be received by 5:00 PM ET on Wednesday, 31 August 2016. A final slate of NRO NC candidates will be announced on Monday, 10 October 2016 and elections will open to North American Network Operators? Group (NANOG) and ARIN meeting attendees on Monday, October 17 at 9:00 AM ET. Elections open to all eligible ARIN Member organizations? Voting Contacts on Thursday, 20 October 2016. To submit your nomination now, please click on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ARIN2016 For more information on the nomination process and nominee eligibility requirements and responsibilities, including viewing ARIN?s Region, please visit: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nronumbercouncil.html For questions, or to request additional information, please email the ARIN Member Services team at members at arin.net. Regards, Wendy Leedy Member Engagement Coordinator American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Aug 4 10:45:38 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:45:38 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] UPDATE: ARIN Phones will be Closed after 1:00 PM on 12 August Message-ID: <57A35512.1000901@arin.net> Due to unforeseen delays, the move to the new ARIN offices has been postponed for one week. ARIN will be operating under its normal schedule on 5 August. ARIN will be closing its phones at 1:00 PM EDT on Friday, 12 August in order to move to new offices. ARIN staff will continue working during this time and will be available via email. All other customer support business systems (website, email, ARIN Online, RESTful Provisioning, Whois, RDAP, IRR, RPKI repository, etc.) will remain operational during the move. Phone service is expected to be restored by the start of the next business day on Monday, 15 August at 7:00 AM EDT. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Aug 8 09:38:10 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 09:38:10 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New Senior Director for Registration Services at ARIN Message-ID: I am pleased to welcome John Sweeting as our new Senior Director of the Registration Services Department beginning 15 August 2016. Many of you already know John from the various roles he has served, such as the ARIN Advisory Council (AC), the Address Supporting Organization Advisory Council (ASO AC), and serving as an ARIN appointee to the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) Team. Most recently John was the Senior Director Core & Data Center Architecture & Engineering at Time Warner Cable and brings a significant amount of industry knowledge and experience to his new role at ARIN. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Aug 11 12:11:30 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:11:30 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] REMINDER: ARIN Phones will be Closed after 1:00 PM on 12 August Message-ID: <57ACA3B2.10107@arin.net> ARIN will be closing its phones at 1:00 PM EDT on Friday, 12 August in order to move to new offices. ARIN staff will continue working during this time and will be available via email. All other customer support business systems (website, email, ARIN Online, RESTful Provisioning, Whois, RDAP, IRR, RPKI repository, etc.) will remain operational during the move. Phone service is expected to be restored by the start of the next business day on Monday, 15 August at 7:00 AM EDT. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Aug 15 12:04:11 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:04:11 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Public Comments on IANA IPR Agreements Message-ID: <783f25c2-f461-b02b-a5af-99599f0212d9@arin.net> This message is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO): A call for public comments on the IANA IPR is now open at https://www.ianacg.org/call-for-public-comment-on-iana-ipr-agreements/. The associated documents may also be found at http://trustee.ietf.org/iana.html. This call for public comment seeks community input on three agreements concerning intellectual property rights (IPR) related to the IANA stewardship transition: ? IANA IPR Assignment Agreement ? IANA IPR License Agreement ? IANA IPR Community Agreement Comments are due by the deadline of September 12, 2016 at 23:59 UTC. Comments should be submitted via email to IANAIPRpubliccomment at ianacg.org. Commenters should clearly reference to which of the agreement(s) their comments apply. The ICG web site is being used as a neutral site to host this call for public comment, but the agreements are not a product of the ICG. Background The Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community, https://www.ianacg.org/icg-files/documents/IANA-transition-proposal-final.pdf, includes a requirement for certain IPR associated with IANA to be transferred from ICANN to an entity independent of the IANA functions operator. The IPR consists of trademarks and domain names. After discussion within the operational communities and the IETF Trust, the IETF Trust indicated that it would be willing to hold the IANA IPR. The IETF Trust, http://trustee.ietf.org/, is a Virginia common law trust created in 2005. Among other things, the IETF Trust was created for the purpose of acquiring, holding, maintaining and licensing certain intellectual property for the advancement of the science and technology associated with the Internet and related technology. The IETF Trust agreed to hold the IANA IPR in the service of the affected Internet operational communities. Representatives from the names community, the numbers community, the protocol parameters community, the IETF Trust, and ICANN have drafted a set of agreements to effectuate the transfer of the IANA IPR from ICANN to the IETF Trust and to govern the relationships amongst the parties with respect to the IPR after the transfer. These agreements are: (1) IANA IPR Assignment Agreement. This agreement transfers the IPR from ICANN to the IETF Trust. (2) IANA IPR License Agreement. This agreement allows for the IANA functions operator to use the IPR. The document available for public comment is a basic form that will be used to generate three license agreements, one each for the names, numbers, and protocol parameters IANA services. Items highlighted in yellow will vary by agreement and will be completed once the License Agreement is split into three. In each case the licensee is ICANN, with the ability established for ICANN to sublicense to PTI. (3) IANA IPR Community Agreement. This agreement explains the rights and obligations of the IETF Trust and each operational community as regards the IPR. The IETF Trust, the operational communities, and ICANN hereby solicit feedback as to whether the draft agreements address the needs of the affected communities. From info at arin.net Thu Aug 18 11:04:02 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:04:02 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] NTIA Announces Intention to Allow the IANA Functions Contract to Expire Message-ID: <57B5CE62.8000804@arin.net> The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced its intention to allow the IANA functions contract to expire; a significant step in the process to transition the Internet's domain name system (DNS) to the private sector. The NTIA currently contracts with ICANN for ICANN to perform a set of coordination services with regards to Internet identifiers; these services are collectively referred to as "the IANA functions." In March 2014, NTIA initiated the final step in the privatization of the DNS by asking ICANN to convene Internet stakeholders to develop a plan to transition NTIA's IANA stewardship role to the Internet multistakeholder community. On Friday, ICANN reported to NTIA that all the necessary tasks required by the IANA Stewardship transition proposal are completed or will be complete by the end of the contract term. Based on its review of this report and barring any significant impediment, NTIA intends to allow the IANA functions contract to expire as of 1 October 2016 ? at which time ICANN will continue to perform these same functions, only under the auspices of the respective communities which rely upon these tasks. Over the last two years, Internet stakeholder groups from around the world have come together to formulate a comprehensive IANA Stewardship transition plan. ARIN community representatives and staff, together with the other four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), worked in conjunction with the Numbers community to contribute to the IANA stewardship transition plan to ensure that the Internet remains open, stable, resilient and secure. To read about the work of the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal Team's (CRISP) work, visit: https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team-crisp-team ARIN fully supports the IANA Stewardship Transition and would like to thank all of those who have contributed their time over the last two years to making it a success. Read the NTIA's full announcement at: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/update-iana-transition To learn more about the IANA Stewardship Transition, visit: https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability Regards, John Curran President & CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Aug 23 13:42:56 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:42:56 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] NRO statement on IANA Intellectual Property Rights Message-ID: This message is sent on behalf of the Number Resource Orgainzation (NRO) Executive Council: The NRO has reviewed the IANA Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Assignment Agreement, the IANA IPR License Agreement and the IANA IPR Community Agreement, as published for comment at https://www.ianacg.org/call-for-public-comment-on-iana-ipr-agreements/, and finds that these IPR agreements meet the requirements of the numbers community, as expressed in the CRISP Proposal at https://www.nro.net/news/final-proposal-crisp. The NRO notes that these agreements are presently posted for public comments through September 12, 2016 at 23:59 UTC. After that time and presuming a favorable review of the comments received, the NRO intends to enter into these agreements in order to facilitate the IANA Stewardship transition. For your information, Oscar Robles Chair Number Resource Organization From info at arin.net Tue Aug 23 16:48:19 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:48:19 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for ARIN Nominations Reminder Message-ID: <57BCB693.4070602@arin.net> Nominations for candidates to participate in ARIN Elections will close Wednesday, 31 August 2016 at 5:00 PM ET. Nominations are currently being accepted to fill two seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees, five seats on the Advisory Council, and one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC). To submit a nomination for the ARIN Board of Trustees or Advisory Council, a nominator must be an ARIN Trustee or a General Member in Good Standing. Eligible nominators may make up to three nominations for each open seat. Any person may be nominated and self-nominations are permitted, consistent with the election guidelines. ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. Any individual, regardless of ARIN Member affiliation, may self-nominate or nominate one or more candidates for any open NRO NC position. Nominees for the NRO NC must reside within the ARIN region. Incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. For more information on the nomination process, please visit the ARIN Election System Instructions page at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html To submit a nomination now, please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ARIN2016 For questions related to the nomination process or to certify your organization is eligible to vote in this year?s elections, please email members at arin.net. Regards, Wendy Leedy Member Engagement Coordinator American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Aug 25 12:29:01 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:29:01 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Board Appoints NRO Number Council Representative Message-ID: <0beb1726-e8c6-1564-de31-a317970b69cf@arin.net> On 23 August, the ARIN Board of Trustees appointed Kevin Blumberg to serve on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) from the ARIN region, filling the vacancy created by John Sweeting?s resignation. Kevin?s term will run through 31 December 2016. Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at: https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/the-nro-number-council In accepting his appointment, Kevin has resigned from the ARIN Advisory Council effective immediately. His seat will be filled during the upcoming ARIN elections. ARIN wishes to thank Kevin for his years of service as a member of the Advisory Council and his service as Advisory Council Vice-Chair. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Aug 29 14:10:02 2016 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:10:02 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominations Closes at 5:00 PM EDT on 31 August Message-ID: <57C47A7A.50906@arin.net> This is the final call for nominations for candidates to fill two seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees, six seats on the Advisory Council, and one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC). All of the seats are for three-year terms except the newly announced sixth seat on the Advisory Council. With Kevin Blumberg?s recent resignation from the Advisory Council there is an extra seat now open. The candidate receiving the sixth largest number of votes in the 2016 Advisory Council election will join the Advisory Council to fulfill the one year remaining on Kevin?s term. Nominations will close promptly at 5:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, 31 August. To submit a nomination for the ARIN Board of Trustees or Advisory Council, a nominator must be an ARIN Trustee or General Member in Good Standing. Eligible nominators may make up to three nominations for each open seat. Any person may be nominated and self-nominations are permitted, consistent with the election guidelines. ARIN Trustees and Advisory Council incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. Any individual, regardless of ARIN Member affiliation, may self-nominate or nominate one or more candidates for any open NRO NC position. Nominees for the NRO NC must reside within the ARIN region. Incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. To submit a nomination now, please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ARIN2016 For more information on the nomination process, please visit the ARIN Election System Instructions page at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html For questions, please email members at arin.net. Regards, Wendy Leedy Member Engagement Coordinator American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)