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@icann.org> | <http://www.icann.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------