From kimh at arin.net Wed Sep 1 10:07:22 1999 From: kimh at arin.net (Kim Hubbard) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:07:22 -0400 Subject: ARIN MEMBER UPDATE: ASO APPROVED Message-ID: <4.1.19990901093515.01ac6eb0@192.149.252.141> MEMBER UPDATE: Last week in Santiago, Chile, the ICANN Board of Directors approved the ASO proposal submitted by the Regional Registries (ARIN, RIPE and APNIC). The next step is for the RIRs boards to draft the MOU. ICANN has given us a deadline of October 15 to nominate 3 ICANN Board of Directors from the ASO. Although the ASO proposal was approved there was a small contingent of organizations that opposed it on the basis that they should be represented directly in the ASO rather than through the RIRs. The major stated motivation of this group, which included AT&T, BT, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, ETSI and CIX, was to be sure that future allocation strategies take adequate recognition of the special requirements of telephony (especially mobile telephony) and IP convergence. In an attempt to satisfy the concerns raised by this contingent the ICANN Board approved the following resolution proposed by Hans Kraainjenbrink (ICANN Board member) to create an ad hoc committee: Formation of Ad Hoc Group "RESOLVED [99.__] that the Interim President and CEO, working with Director Kraaijenbrink, is directed to establish an ad hoc group to be charged with developing the objectives and proposing structures for future policies in the area of numbering, especially as required to meet global market needs and taking into account the convergence of information technology services and networks. The group will include representatives of businesses, including telecom operators and Internet service providers and trade organizations, the ASO Council, the ICANN Board, and other legitimately interested parties. The group will present an interim report before the second ICANN public meeting in 2000. A final report from the ad hoc group will be presented to the ICANN Board prior to the Annual Meeting in 2000." There is still some question as to exactly what the charter of this committee will be and who will be allowed to participate. Since the purpose of this committee is unclear, the RIR representatives suggested delaying a vote on creating this ad hoc committee until after the community had a chance to discuss it. The ICANN Board felt there had already been extensive discussion. Mike Roberts (Interim President of ICANN) has been tasked with determining a charter for the ad hoc committee and determining who will be allowed to participate. We hope that this charter will be available for public comment prior to committee members being appointed. In the meantime, I cannot stress enough how important it is for you and your organizations to get involved in this process. We will be discussing ICANN/ASO issues at the public policy meeting in Denver in October. If these issues are not listed in your job description :-) and there is someone else from your organization better suited to deal with the political side than please bring them along with you to the ARIN public policy meeting. If you have any comments or questions about the ICANN meeting I will be more than happy to discuss them with you. Fortunately, there were members of the ARIN board and Advisory Council in attendance, specifically, Mike Straty, Ken Fockler, Don Telage (BoT), Cathy Wittbrodt and Jeremy Porter (AC). All of which I'm sure would be happy to participate in a discussion on this list. Thanks, Kim Hubbard ARIN From kimh at arin.net Thu Sep 16 10:16:14 1999 From: kimh at arin.net (Kim Hubbard) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:16:14 -0400 Subject: Show support for ASO nominees Message-ID: <4.1.19990916101026.01b51960@192.149.252.141> The current list of ASO Address Council nominees are on ARIN's webpage. To show support for one or more of these individuals just complete the form at http://www.arin.net/aso/aso.htm. You can also nominate someone new for the Address Council and ICANN Board of Directors. While you're at the ARIN website don't forget to sign up for the ARIN member and public policy meetings. See you in Denver... Kim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: