Dear LIR WG, A new RIPE meeting is approaching and we have some important business to conduct. I have just posted the minutes from the last working group meeting to the list, with the comments I have received from the participants. The time since the last meeting has been particularly busy, partially because the company I work for has been bought by Infostream ASA, partially because several people left the company leaving me with the task of rebuilding the sales and marketing department. Things are now returning to normal, and I hope to have some more time to spend on RIPE and ICANN ASO business. The most important thing that has happened this autumn was the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. The long version of what happened at that meeting can be found at the ICANN web site at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la/archive/ The formal version, IE, the minutes from the Board meeting: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-4nov99.htm The short version of what happened related to the Address Supporting Organisation, http://www.aso.icann.org according to my memory is: - The Address Council and the ASO directors met with some ICANN board members and staff to get aquatinted and have informal discussions on how to proceed with our work. - The Address Council had an open meeting, minutes can be found at: http://aso.icann.org/mailing-lists/aso-policy/9912/msg00000.html (The minutes from the previous phone conference can be found at: http://aso.icann.org/mailing-lists/aso-announce/9911/msg00000.html ) - The discussions on the ad Hoc committee turned into something that seems more acceptable to all parties. -I had the pleasure of presenting the status of the work done by the Address Council so far to the ICANN annual meeting. http://home.sol.no/~hph/ASO/ICANN%20ASO%20rapport%209911/ After this the address council as such has not done that much work, our eminent staff at the regionally registries are however driving the process forward and have been working to move things forward. The European part of the AC will thus meet with the RIPE NCC executive board next week to discuss how to proceed. There is however some items on the action lists that needs to be taken care of: LIR-34.4 Form a task force for documenting the existing policy process LIR.34.6 Form a task force to define final Address council selection procedure Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen Chair LIR-WG