Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC Executive Board has appointed Wilfried Woeber as an interim member of the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council for the RIPE NCC region. He will serve a one-year term beginning 1 January 2005. When this term has finished, the RIPE NCC Executive Board will appoint a person to the ASO Address Council for a full three-year term. This appointment is part of the transition of the Address Council as described in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Number Resource Organization (NRO). Full details of this MoU, signed by ICANN and the NRO in October 2004, are available at: http://www.nro.net/documents/aso-mou.html Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC