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