Public participation site

The ASO comprises the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and develops recommendations on Internet Protocol (IP) address policy.

Its main website can be found at http://www.aso.icann.org/

ICANN has changed the method by which it draws input into its public meetings - including the public forum - in an effort to make it easier to interact, and hence encourage greater interaction.

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For the ICANN public forum on Thursday 29 March 2007

Please note: You need to register with the site and be logged in to gain access to the chatrooms

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Yesterday's presentations by Alex Le Heux, João Damas and Gert Döring inspired an interesting discussion on IPv6 deployment issues. The session transcript has been published on the main meeting web site and a video archive of the discussion will be made available for download some time next week. Here are some key points from the discussion:

• About one third of TLDs already have IPv6 active for at least one of their nameservers

If the number of uniquely numbered network interfaces connected to the Internet continues to grow at the rate we've been seeing for the last few years the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted and a new address space will be required. That address space is IPv6 and the RIRs have been allocating it to ISPs since 1999.

Although the 6bone IPv6 testbed network was officially closed on 6 June 2006, deployment of IPv6 on production networks is not yet widespread.

What it is: This workshop will help participants understand the role and functions of the Address Supporting Organization.

Why it's important: The Address Supporting Organization represents the numeric Internet address community. It has an important role in providing input to the ICANN
Board on global address policy development. The ASO is also
responsible for selecting a member of the addressing community to serve on the ICANN Board.