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@pobox.com Cc: hph@sys.sol.no; arano@byd.ocn.ad.jp; cathy@excitehome.net; dmeyer@cisco.com; rbeca@ctc.cl; Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at; jianping@sea.net.edu.cn; hjpark@corp.thrunet.com; 'Mike Roberts'; 'Esther Dyson'; 'Paul Wilson'; 'Kim Hubbard'; 'Mirjam Kuehne'; arano@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