ICANN: Call for nominees to the Address Council

[RIPE NCC Staff <ncc@ripe.net>]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a call for nominations to the ICANN ASO
committee. Please read this carefully as it is an important step in the
process of furthering development in this area.

In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible we may
unavoidably send you two copies. Please accept our apologies for this.

We would appreciate you help in distributing this to your board
members.

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Call for Nominations for Members of the Address Council of ICANN - RIPE NCC 
Service Region

Amsterdam, 8 September 1999


This is a call for nominations of individuals to serve as members of the 
Address Council, a body that is to be established under the authority of the 
Address Supporting Organisation (ASO) of ICANN.

This document describes the process that will be followed in the selection of 
Address Council members. If you are interested in nominating an individual, or 
if you are interested in being nominated as a member of the Address Council, 
please read through the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and this document 
carefully.


1. The Address Supporting Organisation
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The ASO will be created though a MoU that will be executed between the current 
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN. The latest version of this MoU 
is available under the ICANN and ASO current issues section on the RIPE NCC 
Web site at:

http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html

Section 2(a) of the MoU provides a framework for the regional selection 
procedure of Address Council members. Due to additional time constraints set 
by the current ICANN board the schedule proposed in section 2(a) cannot be 
realised. Therefore in accordance with section 2(a)(v) a modified procedure 
will be followed to select the initial Address Council members with emphasis 
on openness and transparency.

The RIPE NCC Association has chosen to make use of the existing open processes 
in their region to select Address Council members. The selection of the 
Address Council members will take place at the first following RIPE Meeting 
scheduled to take place from 21-24 September 1999 in Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands.

In accordance with section 2(a)(v)  the definition of the selection procedure 
will be part of the Local Internet Registry Working Group (Local IR WG) 
meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 22 September 1999 at 14:00 at the upcoming 
RIPE meeting. This working group has traditionally served as the RIPE NCC's IP 
address related policy making forum and is open to all interested parties.

The actual selection will take place at the RIPE 34 Meeting - Plenary session 
to be held on Thursday, 23 September 1999 starting at 14:00. Further 
information about the upcoming RIPE Meeting can be found at:

http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/index.htmlripe-34/


2. Address Council Nominations Process
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Three individuals from the RIPE NCC Region will be selected to serve as 
initial members of the Address Council. The selection will be made from the 
set of individuals who have been nominated within this process.

Any individual may be nominated within this process, with the exception of any 
staff member of any Regional Internet Registry. Self-nominations are permitted.

Nominations are to be sent by email to:
       nominations@ripe.net


The information included with the nomination is to be in English, and should 
include:

       Name of Nominee

       Organisation

       Email Address

       Postal Address

       Phone Number

       Motivation for Nomination


All nominations are to be emailed to the above address on or before Sunday, 19 
September 1999.

All nominees will be contacted via email to confirm their willingness to serve 
as an Address Council member. If the nominee cannot be contacted via email 
then the nomination will not be confirmed.

All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC Web site as soon as 
they are confirmed.

Important Dates: 

19 September 1999: deadline for Address Council nominations

21-24 September 1999: RIPE Meeting 34 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Keith Mitchell, Chairman, RIPE NCC Executive Board
Rob Blokzijl, Chairman, RIPE