Announcement: 3 new ICANN board members appointed

Dear friends of RIPE,

The address council of the Address Supporting Organisation of ICANN
has today performed its first important task.

Following the regional open calls for nominations, three members for
the ICANN board has been selected

	Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term
	Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term
	Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term

The terms may be reconsidered at the upcoming meeting in Los Angeles,
but for formal reasons we had to decide on the terms without having
time to meet or consult with the candidates.

It is worth noting that the Address Council has been under enormous
pressure to come up with the candidates by today at latest. According
to the ICANN bylaws, the current ICANN board has to be informed of the
new board members 7 days before the new board members can take their
seat. We were therefor facing two choices: rush the process as much as
possible, an almost impossible task with members of the address
council from Japan, China, Korea, Austria, France, Norway, USA and
Chile in order to enable our board members to take seat before the Los
Angeles board meeting. Or we could have waited, thus taken away our
communities voices on the upcoming board meeting.

We did however manage to select one candidate from each region
regionally, and then had a phone meeting earlier on today to confirm
the selections. We managed to establish a quorum (5 out of 9 present,
and more than 2 out of 3 regions represented) and all votes were
unanimous.

Wish them good luck, 
As they may need it, to make sure ICANN becomes what it needs to be to
ensure active development of the Internet.

Sincerley
Hans Petter Holen
Local IR Working Group Chair	/ ICANN ASO Address council member
 
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From: Sabine Jaume [mailto:Sabine.Jaume at renater.fr] 
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Subject: ASO Board members

Andrew,

As chair of today AC conference call , I am pleased to give you the
names ofthe 3 board members for ASO.

Ken Fockler (ARIN region) for a 1 year term
Pindar Wong (APNIC region) for a 2 years term
Rob Blokzijl (RIPE NCC region) for a 3 years term

Please note that terms may be reconsidered during the 1st November
evening meeting in LA, after having met each of these three directors.

Best Regards

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Sabine JAUME