The document summarizes the activities of the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) from February to September 2014. The ASO AC advises ICANN and selects members for the ICANN Board and Nominating Committee. Over this period, the ASO AC responded to a request from IANA regarding allocating additional blocks of IP addresses and selected members for the ICANN Board and 2015 Nominating Committee. It also nominated members to various ICANN working groups and launched a new website.

1. ASO AC Report
Aftab A. Siddiqui
Brisbane, Australia
16th September 2014

2. ICANN ASO AC
Who is it?
The Number Resource Organization – Number Council – [NRO-NC]
What is it?
Number Resource Policy Advisory Body
How is it Organized?
15 Members (3 from each RIR)
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2 Elected Members
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1 Appointed by RIR Board/EC RIR and ICANN Observers
Term in Office
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2years term for elected members
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1year term for appointed member
What does it do?
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Advise ICANN Board
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Select ICANN Board Members: 2
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Select ICANN NomCom Member: 1
When and How do they meet?
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Conference Call: Every Month
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Face to Face: Annualy

3. 2014 Address Council Members
Region
Member
Term
Fiona Asonga
Alan Barrett (Vice Chair) *
Douglas Onyango
Jan 2014 – Dec 2016
Jan 2014 – Dec 2015
Jan 2012 – Dec 2014
Naresh Ajwani (Vice Chair)
Tomohiro Fujisaki
Aftab Siddiqui *
Jan 2013 – Dec 2014
Jan 2014 – Dec 2015
Jan 2014 – Dec 2014
Louis Lee (Chair)
Jason Schiller
Ron da Silva *
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Jan 2014 – Dec 2016
Jan 2012 – Dec 2014
Jorge Villa
Ricardo Patara
Hartmut Glaser *
May 2013 – Dec 2014
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Jan 2014 – Dec 2014
Filiz Yilmaz
Dmitry Kohmanyuk
Wilfried Woeber *
Jan 2014 – Dec 2016
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Jan 2014 – Dec 2014

4. ASO AC Meetings
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Scheduled monthly meetings, every 1st Wednesday of the month.
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Emergency meeting in order to address any issue on immediate basis.
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After APNIC 37 (Malaysia, 25th Feb 2014)
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Regular Conference Calls: 6 (Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Aug, Sep)
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Face to Face Meeting: 1 ( 24th June, ICANN 50)
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Emergency Meeting: 1 (Apr 23rd)

5. Global Policy Development

6. Global Policy Management and IANA Consultation/Advice
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There are currently no global policies in consideration.
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On April 15th IANA asked ASO AC members to advice regarding the ASN allocation issue because of limited number (less than 500) of 2-byte ASN in the available pool.
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Policy: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries.

7. IANA Consultation/Advice
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An Emergency meeting was called on April 23rd, following the Section 5.3 of Operating Procedure of ASO AC.
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Questionnaire was made and sent to secretariats of all RIRs.

8. Questions and Response

9. Questions and Response

10. Formal Response to IANA
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A formal email was sent to NRO Chair as well:
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After consultations with the Internet number communities through the respective RIRs, the ASO Address Council has drawn rough community consensus and advises IANA to implement the Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet Registries as follows:
1.When judging if an RIR is eligible to receive (an) additional ASN block(s) from the IANA per section 3, the IANA must consider utilization of the total undifferentiated pool of ASNs that contains both 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs (ranging from 65536 - 4294967295).

11. Formal Response to IANA (cont..)
2. How RIRs manage their undifferentiated pool is within each RIR’s consideration per their operating procedures and policies.
Note that treating the 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs (ranging from 65536 - 4294967295) differently could lead to a condition where one portion of the undifferentiated pool is completely utilized, while the other portion is underutilized causing the total utilization to be low enough to prevent the RIR from being eligible for additional ASNs.

12. Formal Response to IANA (cont..)
3. The ASO AC would like to reaffirm its advice given in June 2013 that “There is no requirement in the policy to form the block of 1024 AS Numbers from a contiguous set of numbers, thus allocating from 2 or more different value-ranges is acceptable.”
Per this advice, the past practice that an RIR has the option of requesting a block of 1024 AS Numbers that consists of a non- contiguous block of a specific amount of 16-bit ASNs (ranging from 0-65535) and 32-bit only ASNs may continue.
Letter is available publicly here.

13. Formal Response to NRO EC
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A formal email was sent to NRO Chair as well:
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In the AC's August teleconference, the ASO AC noted that past precedence for ASN requests to the IANA would allow for each RIR to take only 99 16-bit ASNs on their next ASN request from the IANA. If such an agreement is to be reached, the AC advises that it should be done so transparently, and openly, and the RIR communities should be informed of such an arrangement so that the outcome is anticipated.

14. ICANN Board Selection
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Kuo-Wei Wu
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Selected by ASO
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Term: April 2010 – AGM 2016
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Raymond A. Plzak
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Selected by ASO
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Term: May 2009 – AGM 2015

15. NomCom Delegate Selection
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Hans Petter Holen served as ASO delegate for 2014 Nominating Committee.
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Hans Petter volunteered to serve for the second term.
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During August meeting ASO AC members unanimously supported the appointment of Hans Petter Holen for 2015 NomCom.

16. Working Group Nominations
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Following ASO-AC Members were nominated for different working groups.
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Hartmut Glaser - IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group
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Fiona Asonga - Enhancing Accountability Working Group

17. ASO New Website
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New website was launched on 14th August 2014.

18. NRO NC Elections
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We will be having elections for NRO NC during APNIC 38.
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We have 6 nominations for the seat.

19. Thankyou.
Any Questions?