ASO Address Council

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ASO Address Council

• ICANN Luxembourg
• 2005 / July / 13
• Hans Petter Holen AC Chair
  hph_at_oslo.net

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ASO Address Council

• Does not represent the RIRs directly
• Three representatives from each RIR Region
• After the signature of the new MoU (Oct
  21st, 2004 - NRO)
  
• two elected and one nominated by each RIR
  Board
  
• The representatives are not necessarily
• RIR members
• All interested parties may participate

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ASO Address Council

• is responsible for the organizational roles of
• providing recommendations to the Board of ICANN
  concerning the recognition of new RIRs, according
  to agreed requirements and policies as currently
  described in document ICP-2.
• defining procedures for selection of individuals
  to serve on other ICANN bodies, in particular on
  the ICANN Board, and implementing any roles
  assigned to the Address Council in such
  procedures.
• providing advice to the Board of ICANN on number
  resource allocation policy, in conjunction with
  the RIRs.
  
• developing procedures for conducting business in
  support
  
• of their responsibilities, in particular
  for the appointment of
  
• an Address Council Chair and definition
  of the Chair's responsibilities. All such
  procedures shall be submitted to
  
• the Executive Council of the NRO for
  approval.
  

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NRO

• Formed by the 5 RIRs Regional Internet
  Registries
  
• to formalise their co-operative Efforts the
  RIRs
  
• in concert - the NRO exists to
• protect the unallocated Number Resource pool,
• promote and protect the bottom-up policy
  development
  
• process, and
• act as a focal point for Internet community input
  into the RIR system.
  

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POLICY FOR ALLOCATION OF IPv4 BLOCKS TO RIRs

• The policy describes the procedure by which IANA
  will make
  
• IPv4 allocations to the Regional Internet
  Registries.
  
• The draft policy for IPv4 was submitted by the
  NRO Number Resource Organization to the ASO
  Address Council.
  
• ASO Resolution has been approved by ASO in
  accordance with the four RIRs local policy
  development processes
  
• Global Addressing Policy was forwarded to ICANN
  Board of Directors - September 03, 2004
  
• ICANN Board of Directors - final resolution in
  Mar del
  
• Plata - April 08, 2005

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IPv6 GLOBAL POLICY

• ASO community is considering global IANA IPv6
  address allocation policy.
  
• Through the Regional Internet Number Registry
  Public Policy Forums, the ASO community is
  considering global policy proposals that will
  govern how IANA allocates IPv6 address blocks to
  the RIRs.
• Proposals have been introduced in all of the RIR
  communities. The proposals are currently being
  discussed through RIR mailing lists, and the
  global IPv6 mailing list.
• ASO and NRO encourage all who are interested in
  IPv6 policy to join these discussions and to
  participate in the RIRs public meetings where
  this issue has been added to the agenda.

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AFRINIC

• ASO and NRO are pleased to note AfriNIC's
  continued progress since it received ICANN
  recognition during the meeting in Mar del
  Plata/Argentina, as the fifth Regional Internet
  Registry (RIR) at April 8, 2005.
• AfriNIC II was held at April 26-27, 2005 in
  Maputo- Mozambique.
  
• The AC is pleased to welcome the elected AfriNIC
  
  
• AC members Jean Robert Hountomey - 3 years
  
  
• Sylvia Geha
  Kezengwa - 2 years
  
• Alan Barret -
  1 year (board appointed)

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The current members of the Address Council are
Francisco Obispo, LACNIC, has been elected to
replace Julan Dunayevich from Jan 2006
 
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ASO AC Administration

• Secretariat for 2005 is supported by LACNIC
• Rotate between the RIRs
• ARIN 2002
• APNIC 2003
• RIPE NCC 2004
• LACNIC 2005

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AC elected ICANN Board Members
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Meetings of the AC

• Bi-Montly Telephone Conferences
• 2004 Jan 21, Mar 10, May 06, July 07, Sep
  01, Nov 03
  
• 2005 Jan 05, Mar 02, May 04
• Yearly 2 Workshops
• MAPUTO April 27, 2005
• VANCOUVER November, 2005
• Outreach and Community input
• RIR policy meetings
• ICANN meetings

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Recent Address Council Issues

• Responds to the ICANN Strategic Plan Document
• 1.- draft comments prepared by
  Sebastian Bellagamba,
  
• 2.- discussed by the AC - Address
  Council using e-mail, before the
  
• 3.- final publication
• WGIG - Working Group on Internet Governance
• 1.- advice to the ICANN Board of
  Directors on addressing aspects of
  
• the WGIG work (drafted by Lee
  Howard)
  
• 2.- appointed Lee Howard to attend
  WGIG meeting on behalf of the AC
  
• Input to ICANN Board and comments to ICANN
  Procedure
  
• to handle ASO Policy proposal
• 1.- ICANN posted a review
  procedure
  
• 2.- Louis Lee and Sebastian
  Bellagamba draftet the AC response to
  
• the procedure
• 3.- discussed at the AC workshop in
  Maputo,
  
• 4.- formaly approved at regular AC
  conference call at May 04, 2005
  

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Ongoing Address Council Issues

• Advice to the ICANN Board on the New gTLD stategy
  Implementation
  
• Analysis of IP addressing issuess or concerns in
  the proposal
  
• Advice to the ICANN Board on Competitive IPv6
  allocation and assignment policies
  
• Working Group created
• Follow the development of IPv6 Global policy
• Presented at all RIR meetings
• The ASO Address Council shall review the process
  followed by the RIRs in terms of reaching a
  position of common agreement and a common text to
  describe the proposed global policy, and the
  Address Council shall undertake measures in
  accordance with an adopted procedure to assure
  itself that the significant viewpoints of
  interested parties were adequately considered.

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ASO Address Council

• Thank You !!!

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ASO Address Council

• Questions ???