LACNIC is pleased to announce the election of Alejandro Guzmán Giraldo as the representative of the LACNIC region to the ASO Address Council / NRO Number Council. The election was held on 20 May 2011, during the LACNIC XV meeting in the city of Cancun, Mexico. Alejandro was elected to occupy a seat in the Address Council from 1 January… Read More
Consultations should include organizations key to the Internet’s success as a platform for global economic growth and social progress PARIS – 23 May 2011 – In advance of the upcoming meeting of the G8 governments, a worldwide coalition of Internet organizations, including the Number Resource Organization, the Internet Society, the Internet Society France Chapter, ICANN, and the World Wide Web… Read More
Minutes Wednesday, May 11 2011 Teleconference Executive Council Attendees: Chairman: Raúl Echeberría, CHAIR (LACNIC) Secretary: John Curran, JC (ARIN) Treasurer: Paul Wilson, PW (APNIC) Members: Alain Aina, AA (AFRINIC), Axel Pawlik, AP (RIPE NCC) Secretariat: Nate Davis ARIN Observers: Pablo Hinojosa – APNIC Scott Bradner – ARIN Arturo Servin – LACNIC Ernest Majo – LACNIC 1. Welcome, Apologies, Agenda Bashing… Read More
APNIC announced that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, its IPv4 address pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing the Asia Pacific region to the last Stage of IPv4 exhaustion. This is a very important milestone on the IPv4 exhaustion process at a global level. The NRO urges Internet community members to deploy IPv6 within their organizations. Deploying… Read More
RIR Comparative Policy Overview (version 2011-01) (version 2011-01) The goal of this document is to provide a comparative overview of policies across the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system. It is not a policy statement by the RIRs, but serves as a reference for the Internet community. While this document was accurate on the date of publication (30 March 2011) it… Read More
The NRO Responds to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Request for CommentsOn March 31, 2011, the NRO submitted a response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Request for Comments on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions. The NRO response is available at: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO-comments-to-USDoC-NoI.pdf NRO Secretariat
The NRO is pleased to announce that APNIC has appointed Andy Linton to the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC). This is an interim appointment ending 31 December 2011, to replace Dr. Kenny Huang, who was recently elected to the APNIC Executive Council. NRO Secretariat
On 16 March 2011, members of the ASO Address Council presented a workshop at ICANN 40 in San Francisco, CA. The presentation included overviews of the ASO AC, the Policy Development Process, IANA/NRO/RIR updates, and current Global Policies and Proposals. Number Resource Policy Development Activities – ICANN 40
NRO Letter to ICANN: the future of the IANA contractOn 14 March, the NRO sent a letter to ICANN endorsing a cooperative agreement on IANA functions to replace the contract between ICANN & US Government. The full text is available at: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/nro_to_icann_re_iana.pdf NRO Secretariat
On March 10, 2011, The NRO submitted responses to two additional ITU IPv6 Group Liaison Statements based on its contribution to the ITU IPv6 Group meeting held in September of 2010. — NRO response to Liaison Statement 3, C19 “Problems and solutions” is available: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/nro-response-to-ls-3.pdf — NRO response to Liaison Statement 4, IPv4 Issues, is available: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/nro-response-to-ls-4.pdf The responses were… Read More
