Announcement of the Address Council members - RIPE NCC Service Region

Members of the Address Council of ICANN - RIPE NCC Service Region

During the 34th RIPE Meeting in Amsterdam on 23 September 1999 three
Members of the ICANN ASO Address Council were selected as suggested by
the call for nominations of 8th September.

The duties of the ICANN Address Council are mainly threefold: First,
to advise the Board of ICANN on matters referred to the Address
Council by the ICANN Board. Secondly to oversee the existing regional
processes for development of global policies relating to distribution
and registration of Internet address space, identifiers used in
Internet inter-domain routing, and the part of the DNS name space
which is derived from the Internet address space and the inter-domain
routing identifiers. The third being to appoint Directors to the ICANN
Board of Directors in accordance with the By-laws of ICANN.

The selection procedure was discussed in the LIR-WG, the open forum
for policy issues in RIPE. The selection was performed during the RIPE
Plenary meeting. As a pure consensus based selection is highly
improbable, the final selection was performed by a secret ballot. The
result of this ballot was confirmed by consensus support form the
audience. There was also consensus that the three selected candidates
should themselves establish their terms.

To the best of our knowledge this selection has been in accordance
with the principles described in the draft MoU
(http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/mou-draft.html)


 The selected individuals are:

 Sabine Jaume, RENATER			for a one year period
 Hans Petter Holen, SOL System		for a two year period
 Wilfried Woeber, Vienna University	for a three year period

 We wish them success and look forward to co-operating with them.

Rob Blokzijl				Keith Mitchell
RIPE chair				RIPE NCC chair