ADDRESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATION http://aso.icann.org APNIC 18 Meeting Fiji – September 2004 Kenny Huang (huangk@alum.sinica.edu)

ASO Address Council Address Council – AC Does not represent the RIRs directly Three representatives from each RIR Region Not necessarily RIR members ALL interested parties may participate

Address Council APNIC RIPE LACNIC ARIN Takashi Arano Kenny S. Huan Hyun-joon Kwon RIPE Hans-Petter Holen - co chair Sabine Jaume Wilfried Woeber LACNIC Hartmut Glaser - co chair Raimundo Beca - resign Julian Dunayevich ARIN Eric Decker Louie Lee Mark McFadden - chair

ASO AC Administration Secretariat for 2004 is supported by RIPE NCC Rotated between the RIRs New members for 2004 of AC include APNIC => Hyun-joon Kwon (Replacing Seung-Min Lee) ARIN => Louis Lee (Replacing Kim Hubbard) LACNIC => Raimundo Beca (re elected, but now elected as ICANN BoD Member) RIPE => Sabine Jaume re elected

AC Elected Directors Board Member Region Term Ends Mouhamet Diop Africa June 2006 Raimundo Beca Latin America and Caribbean May 2007

ASO General Assembly Happens once a year This year was in Amsterdam in May See www.aso.icann.org for details New MoU was on the agenda After the GA => during the AC Meeting Election of one ICANN Board Director => Raimundo Beca And the election for the AC NomCom Representative => Hartmut Glaser

ASO Address Council Continued to observe progress in the establishment of AFRINIC new RIR AFRINIC representatives have actively participated in all current ASO activities and in the ICANN reform process

Other Activities Established standard BoD selection process Roadmap for work in 2004 Discussion ongoing to review RFC 2050 and its current relation to active policy This work has been wrapped up

ASO Address Council AC is working with the RIRs on completing ICANN reform process discussions Trying to increase awareness on NRO and ICANN RIR relationships Awaiting news on the RIR/ICANN MoU Very important to the Address Council Difficult to make progress until this is completed The role of the AC will be changing with the new MoU between ICANN and RIRs Policy endorsement endorse process used to develop policy for IANA-RIR IPv4 allocation

Thank You!