[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, This is a call for the RIPE community to nominate individuals from the RIPE NCC service region to serve on the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council (AC). Hans Petter Holen (Visma IT AS) vacates his seat on 31 December, ending his three-year term. Important ---------- The ASO Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) states that the public nomination period should open 90 days in advance of the next open policy meeting (RIPE 55) and close 30 days before the start of this meeting. Due to an oversight in the RIPE NCC's administrative procedure, this public nomination period was not announced to the RIPE community at the scheduled time. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. If there are no objections from the community, we would like to proceed with the nomination process as follows: - 19 September: Nomination period opens - 15 October: Nomination period closes - 15 October: Complete Nomination list posted at: www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/aso2007/nominations.html - 25 October: Elections take place during the RIPE Address Policy Working Group session at RIPE 55 How to Nominate Candidates ----------------------- Please send your nominations to nominations@ripe.net by 23:00 UTC on 15 October 2007. For details of the information that must be included with your nomination please see: www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/aso2007/index.html More Information ---------------- Information about the ASO AC and the nomination procedure can be found at: http://aso.icann.org/ac/ Information about the election procedure during RIPE 55 can be found at: www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/aso2007/selection-procedure.html More information about RIPE 55 can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/index.html Kind regards, Paul Rendek Head of External Relations & Communications RIPE NCC