The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Report of the ASO Address Council / NRO Number Council ARIN XXVI Louie Lee Chair, ICANN ASO Address Council

2 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Who Are We? Jason Schiller Martin Hannigan Louis Lee 2 ARIN elected/appointed representatives:

3 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Current Members 3

4 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Major Functions of the ASO Address Council ICANN Board appointments –seats 9 & 10: Ray Plzak & Kuo-Wei Wu ICANN Board advice Global policy proposal certification –Excerpt from Attachment A of the ASO MoU: The ASO Address Council shall review the process followed by the RIRs in terms of reaching a position of common agreement and a common text to describe the proposed global policy, and the Address Council shall undertake measures in accordance with an adopted procedure to assure itself that the significant viewpoints of interested parties were adequately considered. ICANN Nominating Committee –1 representative: Wilfried Woeber 4

5 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Activities of the ASO Address Council All-day face-to-face meeting –ICANN 38, June 2010 ICANN Affirmation of Commitments, Review Teams: 1.Accountability & Transparency 2.Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS 3.Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (2011) 4.WHOIS Policy Naresh Ajwani re-elected (APNIC) 5

6 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Activities of the ASO Address Council (continued) Working to increase ICANN community communication –ICANN 39, Dec 2010 Global policy proposals –ASN Allocation (ARIN ): ratified Sep 2010 –IPv4 return & redistribution (ARIN ): lost global policy status –IPv4 redistribution post run-out (ARIN ): active 6

Global Policy Draft Policy (Global Proposal): Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries – Tried to address two things Ensure that IANA has a policy to allocate addresses after the exhaustion phase. Ensure IANA can allocate left over addresses smaller than a /8 Redistribute addresses from RIRs that have them to RIRs that are out – ARIN AC rewrote policy to make the returning of addresses to IANA optional Policy proposal with substantial contextual change accepted in ARIN region – APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC accepted the policy as written – RIPE NCC awaiting decision from proposal authors No community consensus Awaiting ARIN decision on this policy

8 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Thanks & Acknowledgements John Curran –For all of his advice ARIN Board of Trustees –For all of their time Einar Bohlin –For the fantastic job he does managing policy and making everything easy to find Therese Colosi –For dealing with all of the travel details 8

The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN Thank you Louie Lee Chair, ICANN ASO Address Council