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hostmaster falling behind
by Hank Nussbacher 26 Oct '99

26 Oct '99

[ Moderator note: changed local-ir(a)ripe.net -> lir-wg(a)ripe.net ] A week ago I sent a request for a new ASN to hostmaster with a response: >Please note that you might experience an extra delay for the initial >response from one of our hostmasters. This is due to the current >number of requests in our waitqueue. We are sorry for this delay and >we will do our best to bring the response time back to normal as >soon as possible. Still no response after 7 days. Where can we see updates on this matter via www.ripe.net? Is there a place to view the queue size? Is RIPE NCC hiring more people? I think the LIRs should be updated - as this is not the 1st time this year that this has happened. Thanks, Hank

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Announcement: 3 new ICANN board members appointed
by hph＠a.sol.no 25 Oct '99

25 Oct '99

Dear friends of RIPE, The address council of the Address Supporting Organisation of ICANN has today performed its first important task. Following the regional open calls for nominations, three members for the ICANN board has been selected Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term The terms may be reconsidered at the upcoming meeting in Los Angeles, but for formal reasons we had to decide on the terms without having time to meet or consult with the candidates. It is worth noting that the Address Council has been under enormous pressure to come up with the candidates by today at latest. According to the ICANN bylaws, the current ICANN board has to be informed of the new board members 7 days before the new board members can take their seat. We were therefor facing two choices: rush the process as much as possible, an almost impossible task with members of the address council from Japan, China, Korea, Austria, France, Norway, USA and Chile in order to enable our board members to take seat before the Los Angeles board meeting. Or we could have waited, thus taken away our communities voices on the upcoming board meeting. We did however manage to select one candidate from each region regionally, and then had a phone meeting earlier on today to confirm the selections. We managed to establish a quorum (5 out of 9 present, and more than 2 out of 3 regions represented) and all votes were unanimous. Wish them good luck, As they may need it, to make sure ICANN becomes what it needs to be to ensure active development of the Internet. Sincerley Hans Petter Holen Local IR Working Group Chair / ICANN ASO Address council member -----Original Message----- From: Sabine Jaume [mailto:Sabine.Jaume@renater.fr] Sent: mandag, 25. oktober 1999 18:29 To: mclaughlin(a)pobox.com Cc: hph(a)sys.sol.no; arano(a)byd.ocn.ad.jp; cathy(a)excitehome.net; dmeyer(a)cisco.com; rbeca(a)ctc.cl; Woeber(a)CC.UniVie.ac.at; jianping(a)sea.net.edu.cn; hjpark(a)corp.thrunet.com; 'Mike Roberts'; 'Esther Dyson'; 'Paul Wilson'; 'Kim Hubbard'; 'Mirjam Kuehne'; arano(a)nic.ad.jp Subject: ASO Board members Andrew, As chair of today AC conference call , I am pleased to give you the names ofthe 3 board members for ASO. Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term Please note that terms may be reconsidered during the 1st November evening meeting in LA, after having met each of these three directors. Best Regards -- Sabine JAUME

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ASO Address Council
by hph＠sys.sol.no 22 Oct '99

22 Oct '99

Dear Working Group, This message is to inform you that there is indeed progress in the ICANN ASO process. The Address Council is now in place and we are struggeling to try to select 3 board members to the ICANN board before the LA meeting from the nominations made in each of the regions. Due to ICANN bylaws the ICANN board needs to be informed of our choice prior to board mebers taking seat, and with less than a week to coordinate a truly global group of people this may not be practicaly possible. Time will show. So far the RIPE contigent of the AC has been present at an open meeting in Bruxelles to to listen to European Industry opinions before the ICANN LA meeting, and I was present at part of a meeting in the European part of the Government Advisory Group (GAC) where Mirjam made a presentation of how RIPE and RIPE NCC works. To summarise I bellve the main concerns as I see them today are: - are we open and insclusive enough to the telco industry and others ? - are our procedures adaptable to new technology with regards to growth and flexibility ? - do we have a fair and sound cost structure (especialy with regards to aditional ICANN funding) Without going into details on either of theese, I personaly feel that we are perhaps facing a marketing problem as much as anything else. To summarize I belive that in the EC circles it is well noted that Europe is listened to in this process. Much thanks to the tremedous effort carried out over the years by Rob, Daniel, Mirjam, Keith and others. This stresses the importance of getting on with our todo list before next meetning, something which I hope to be able to do shortly as time permits. Yours networkingly, Hans Petter Local IR Chair Please find attached citations form the mesage from Andrew McLaughlin, Seinor Advisor with ICANN: -----Original Message----- From: Andrew McLaughlin [mailto:mclaughlin@pobox.com] Sent: tirsdag, 19. oktober 1999 09:33 Subject: ASO Address Council (...) (1) Introductions APNIC Address Council members: - Takashi Arano, NTT, Japan (For a term of 3 years) - Jianping Wu, CERNET, China (For a term of 2 years) - Hyun Je Park, Thrunet, Korea (For a term of 1 year) ARIN Address Council members: - Cathy Wittbrodt, Excite@Home, USA (For a term of 3 years) - David Meyer, Cisco and University of Oregon, USA (For a term of 2 years) - Raimundo Beca, AHCIET, Chile (For a term of 1 year) RIPE NCC Address Council members: - Sabine Jaume, RENATER, France (For a term of 1 year) - Hans Petter Holen, SOL System, Norway (For a term of 2 years) - Wilfried Woeber, Vienna University, Austria (For a term of 3 years) (...) I assume that APNIC (serving as the initial ASO Secretariat) will make arrangements for a mailing list for the Address Council. (...) --Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew mclaughlin | senior adviser internet corporation for assigned names and numbers <mclaughlin(a)icann.org> | <http://www.icann.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Top 100 Maintainers.
by RIPE Database Administration 21 Oct '99

21 Oct '99

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WG Plenary report
by hph＠sys.sol.no 06 Oct '99

06 Oct '99

Dear WG participant, I have started making my presentations from the RIPE meetings available on the Web. The relevant parts will probably migrate to the official WG web site over time, but in the mean time things are stored at http://home.sol.no/home/hph/RIPE The WG report from the last meeting in Amsterdam is located at: http://home.sol.no/~hph/RIPE/LIR%20WG%2034%20plenary%20report/ Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen Chair LIR-WG - the open forum where RIPE policy is made

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Regarding the voting of Members to the ASO of ICANN
by Amar 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

Dear fellow members, We write this mail because of the latest developments regarding the nomination and voting of three members from the RIPE community to the ICANN ASO. During the RIPE 34:th meeting there was a point on the agenda for the Plenary Session, 6.b - Selection of 3 Address Council Members. Here three candidates where supposed to be choosen by the membership from 8 nominees. And here is the problem. Every nominee had to fullfill the demands that was expected from them. By active participation in the ICANN ASO process and to work for the RIPE communitys best. Those who accepted their nomination was also fully aware that no financial support would come from either ICANN or RIPE. During that meeting there was a change in the openess and fairness of the process. The meeting took a number of descisions regarding selection criteria among the nominees, among one was that the nominee was to participate in person to be able to be elected. It is our view that selection criteria among nominees is something that have to be public beforehand, and especially known by all nominated persons. Selection criteria is something a nomination commitee work with, election is something a group of people do among a number of nominees -- normally outcome from a nomination comittee. During this nomination process there were no information that the nominated person had to be present at the election. This way to handle the voting for representatives to the ASO is not done in the openess and fairness that we all expect from the whole ICANN process. By doing this the sitiuation could arise that some who nominated himself, and only by himself, would have had a bigger chance to have a seat in the ASO than someone that was supported by many but at that moment where not able to attend the meeting. Because of the tight time limit, the reason to not attend the meeting could be anything from not be able to leave their work with such a short notice, to a simple thing as sickness. This also shows a lack in the way that the voting proceedure is performed within RIPE and the membership. We are fully aware that there is a deadline that ICANN has set up that all RIRs and their membership has to follow. But this solution is not done in the best spirit of the Internet. All the ASO representatives should attend all RIPE meetings in order to get input from the RIPE community. And we fully support Sabine Jaume, Hans Petter Holen and Wilfried Woeber. We also wish them good luck in their work. But we only want to make all the members aware of this issue and next time create a process that is more fair. And to follow the voting proceedings that should apply in a important issue like this. Best Regards Per Lundberg Sonera (se.sonera) Amar Andersson Telia Net (se.telianet) Hans Niklasson Tele2 (se.swipnet) Maria Nilsson Telenordia (se.telenordia) Patrik Fältström

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ICANN: Call for Nominations to ICANN Board of Directors
by RIPE NCC Staff 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a call for nominations to the ICANN Board of Directors (see below) In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible you may receive multiple copies of this message. Please accept our apologies for this. The call for nominations for ICANN Board of Directors for the RIPE NCC Service Region can also be found under the ICANN and ASO current issues section of the RIPE NCC Web site at: http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html Regards, Paul Rendek Communications Officer, RIPE NCC ===== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICANN BOARD OF DIRECTORS - RIPE NCC Service Region Amsterdam, 4 October 1999 This is an open call for nominations of interested individuals to serve on the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), as a nominee of the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO). The ASO will have the responsibility for nominating three ICANN Directors. This responsibility will, in the normal course of events, be conducted through an open process as outlined in the draft Memorandum of understanding as published at the following URL. http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/mou-draft.html For the initial ASO nominations to the ICANN Board, the ASO Address Council will nominate three Directors to serve terms of 1, 2, and 3 years. This process has been initiated by the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) through this open call for nominations. The process of selecting the initial ICANN Directors from the ASO nominations will be defined and managed by the Address Council. ASO Process for Nominating ICANN Directors Any individual may be nominated within this process, with the exception of any official of a national government or a multinational entity established by treaty or other agreement between national governments (ICANN ByLaws Art. V., Sec 5.). Self-nominations are permitted. However, no member of staff of an RIR is eligible to be appointed to the ICANN Board, and no ASO-appointed Director may serve simultaneously on the Address Council. The Directors appointed by the ASO will not represent the ASO on the Board, but will function as full Directors of ICANN. Nominations are to be sent by email to: nominations(a)ripe.net The information included with the nomination is to be in English, and should include: Name of Nominee Organisation E-mail Address Postal Address Phone Number Motivation for Nomination Nominated by Organisation E-mail Address All nominations are to be emailed to the above address on or before Sunday, 17 October 1999. All nominees will be contacted via email and must explicitly confirm their nomination if they are interested in serving as an ICANN Director. 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. Supporting Comments for individual nominees should be sent to: nominations(a)ripe.net The list of nominated individuals and supporting comments made on their behalf will be submitted to the Address Council on Friday, 22 October 1999. Important dates: 17 October 1999: deadline for ICANN Board of Directors Nominations 22 October 1999: list of nominations submitted to Address Council

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Top 100 Maintainers List 19991004
by RIPE Database Administration 04 Oct '99

04 Oct '99

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Announcement of the Address Council members - RIPE NCC Service Region
by RIPE NCC Staff 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Members of the Address Council of ICANN - RIPE NCC Service Region During the 34th RIPE Meeting in Amsterdam on 23 September 1999 three Members of the ICANN ASO Address Council were selected as suggested by the call for nominations of 8th September. The duties of the ICANN Address Council are mainly threefold: First, to advise the Board of ICANN on matters referred to the Address Council by the ICANN Board. Secondly to oversee the existing regional processes for development of global policies relating to distribution and registration of Internet address space, identifiers used in Internet inter-domain routing, and the part of the DNS name space which is derived from the Internet address space and the inter-domain routing identifiers. The third being to appoint Directors to the ICANN Board of Directors in accordance with the By-laws of ICANN. The selection procedure was discussed in the LIR-WG, the open forum for policy issues in RIPE. The selection was performed during the RIPE Plenary meeting. As a pure consensus based selection is highly improbable, the final selection was performed by a secret ballot. The result of this ballot was confirmed by consensus support form the audience. There was also consensus that the three selected candidates should themselves establish their terms. To the best of our knowledge this selection has been in accordance with the principles described in the draft MoU (http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/mou-draft.html) The selected individuals are: Sabine Jaume, RENATER for a one year period Hans Petter Holen, SOL System for a two year period Wilfried Woeber, Vienna University for a three year period We wish them success and look forward to co-operating with them. Rob Blokzijl Keith Mitchell RIPE chair RIPE NCC chair

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Top 100 maintainers list
by RIPE Database Administration 22 Sep '99

22 Sep '99

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