[ARIN-consult] ASO Review Consultation 2018

[Alyssa Moore]

It has taken me over two years to wrap my head around the responsibilities,
structure and difference between the ASO, ASO AC, NRO, and NRO EC.

I have to agree with Woody here on redundancy.

Regarding clarity and complexity, it still remains unclear that the ASO is
an ICANN Supporting Organization, whose functions are carried out by the
NRO, and that the NRO NC and the ASO AC are the same people. And that the
NRO EC is part of the ASO, but is separate from the ASO AC, etc.


The ASO also plays an advisory role, and not a policy development role like
the other two Supporting Organizations within ICANN. If it’s an advisory
role, shouldn’t it be an Advisory Committee? Or why can’t that advice come
from outside the ICANN structure from the NRO itself? To that end, the vast
majority of RIR policy development is all done outside the constraints of
the ICANN system on a regional basis.

The new IANA SLA replaces the ASO MoU in terms of defining the relationship
between ICANN and the RIRs, which has moved away from policy development
and coordination toward an operator/clients relationship. The primary role
of the ASO - forwarding global policy proposals for ratification to the
ICANN Board - is an extremely rare occurrence. Does there need to be a
supporting organization for that work? The NRO performs this policy
coordination function already.

All of that being said, despite the increased volunteer time required in
the wake of the Empowered Community, I must say the ASO is probably one of
the more efficient creatures of ICANN considering the sheer number of
network operators it represents.


On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:46 AM Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Feb 2, 2018, at 5:59 AM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> >
> > As a part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO), ARIN is seeking
> > community input on the NRO community consultation on the ASO review.
>
> Now that there’s a contractual relationship with the IANA Functions
> Operator, with its own heavyweight oversight process in place, the ASO/AC
> is completely redundant, since it interfaces with ICANN, and unlike the
> Names community, we and Protocols don’t do our policymaking within ICANN,
> we do it ourselves.  So, no reason to continue to have an ASO/AC.  It would
> just be looking for a purpose and confusing people.
>
>                                 -Bill
>
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