NRO News

Confirmed Candidates for ICANN Board Seat 10 Election

Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is responsible for the appointment of a representative to serve on Seat Number 10 of the ICANN Board. The ASO AC is pleased to announce the following five candidates for its upcoming appointment: Hago Dafalla Charles Daniel Otine Edwin Martin Salazar Vega… Read More

Internet Governance Forum 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan

The Number Resource Organization will participate in the seventh IGF meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, 6-9 November 2012. NRO participation in IGF workshops The NRO will organize the following workshops: (No.99) Moving to IPv6: Challenges for Internet Governance Wednesday, 7 November, 16:30 – 18:00 Conference Room #11 (No.100) Internet Governance and RPKI Friday, 9 November, 14:30 – 16:00 Conference Room #2… Read More

ARIN Elects Louis Lee to NRO NC / ASO AC

ARIN is pleased to announce that Louis Lee has been re-elected to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) from the ARIN region. He will begin serving another three-year term on 1 January 2013. Information on the NRO Number Council can be found at: https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/the-nro-number-council The ARIN Board of Trustees wishes to thank Andrew Dul for his participation as… Read More

ICANN GPP-IPv4-2011 Implementation Comment Period

ICANN has announced a Public Comment Period relating to the implementation of GPP-IPv4-2011: Global Policy Proposal for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. The ICANN Board announced ratification of GPP-IPv4-2011 on 17 May 2012. The proposal had reached consensus in all Regional Internet Registry (RIR) regions and was reviewed by the NRO EC and the ASO AC prior… Read More

RIPE Elects Dmitry Kohmanyuk to NRO NC

At a Plenary session of the RIPE 65 Meeting on 28 September 2012, Dmitry Kohmanyuk was elected to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC). The NRO NC performs the function of the ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC). Dmitry will serve a three-year term from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015. The election was to… Read More

NRO’s Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey Shows IPv6 Gaining Traction

The results of the 2012 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey are now available. Approximately 1430 respondents from 105 economies participated in this year’s survey. The findings reveal that 77% of those respondents have some level of IPv6 presence, which indicates increased uptake from the previous year. The report explains in further detail that the “real” use of IPv6 has also… Read More

REMINDER: ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 10 on the ICANN Board

On 17 August 2012, the ASO AC called for nominations for the ASO appointment to Seat 10 on the ICANN Board of Directors. The nomination period will end on 19 October 2012. If you are considering nominating someone or yourself, please do not wait until the end of the nomination phase. Nominees will need time to sign and return a… Read More

RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8

On Friday, 14 September 2012, the RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. This means that it is now distributing IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) from the last /8 according to section 5.6 of “IPv4… Read More

Naresh Ajwani re-elected to NRO NC

APNIC is pleased to announce that Naresh Ajwani has been re-elected as a representative to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) for the APNIC region. He will begin another two-year term on 1 January 2013. Election details can be found at: http://conference.apnic.net/34/elections For more information on the NRO NC, please visit: http://aso.icann.org/internet-community/what-is-the-aso/

ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 10 on the ICANN Board

Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws Article VI Section 8.1.e and 8.4, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) calls for nominations for Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board. The ASO AC will announce the full timeline for the selection process after its September meeting. For ongoing information and notices about the selection process… Read More