Report of the ASO Address Council / NRO Number Council ARIN XXVI

1. Report of theASO Address Council / NRO Number CouncilARIN XXVI • Louie Lee • Chair, ICANN ASO Address Council The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN

2. Who Are We? ARIN elected/appointed representatives: • Jason Schiller <schiller@uu.net> • Martin Hannigan <marty@akamai.com> • Louis Lee <louie@louie.net> 2 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN

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

4. Major Functions of theASO 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 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN

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

6. Activities of theASO Address Council(continued) • Working to increase ICANN community communication • ICANN 39, Dec 2010 • Global policy proposals • ASN Allocation (ARIN 2009-6): ratified Sep 2010 • IPv4 return & redistribution (ARIN 2009-3): lost global policy status • IPv4 redistribution post run-out (ARIN 2010-10): active 6 The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN

7. Global Policy Draft Policy 2009-3 (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 From 6 months ago RIPE passed original text

8. 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

9. Thank you • Louie Lee <louie@louie.net> • Chair, ICANN ASO Address Council The ASO is a supporting organization of ICANN