ASO General Assembly and Call for ICANN Board nominations

ANNOUNCEMENT: ASO General Assembly for 2000 and
              Call for ICANN Board nominations

The Address Council of the Address Supporting Organisation is pleased to
announce the first ASO General Assembly meeting, to be held on Friday 19 May
2000, in Budapest, Hungary. This meeting will be hosted by RIPE NCC
alongside the RIPE-36 meeting, and will be open to all parties with an
interest in ASO policy matters. A detailed meeting agenda will be published
in due course on the ASO web site, at http://www.aso.icann.org

In compliance with the ASO MoU (http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/aso-mou.html),
the Address Council and ICANN hereby call for nominations to the ICANN
Board, of candidates to fill vacant ASO seats on the ICANN board as they
become vacant. The first such seat scheduled to become vacant is currently
occupied by Mr. Pindar Wong, who will stand down on 2 November 2000 (the 12
month anniversary of his appointment). However, candidates nominated at this
time may also be chosen to fill seats which become vacant before or after
this time. Note that appointments to the ICANN board must satisfy the
geographic diversity constraints specified in section 3c of the ASO MoU.

Any individual may be nominated within this process, with the exception of
any official of a national government or a multinational entity established
by treaty or other agreement between national governments (ICANN Bylaws Art.
V., Sec 5.). Self-nominations are permitted.

Nominations should be sent by email to <secretariat at aso.icann.org> and
should state the following details :

A. Nominee details

1. Full name
2. Organisational affiliation
3. Email address
4. Physical address
5. Country of residence
6. Telephone contact
7. Biography

B. Details of nominating individual

1. Full name
2. Organisational affiliation
3. Email address
4. Country of residence

Nominations must be submitted in English and must be received by the ASO
Secretariat before 0900 GMT 19 April 2000 (30 days prior to the General
Assembly meeting). After nomination all nominees will be contacted via email
to confirm their willingness to serve as an ICANN Director. If the nominee
is not contactable via email then the nomination will not be confirmed, and
nominee must explicitly confirm the nomination for the nomination to be
considered confirmed.

All confirmed nominations will be listed on the ASO web site (see
http://www.aso.icann.org) as soon as they are confirmed. Those wishing to
express support for any individuals who have been nominated should use the
"ICANN Board - Support of Nomination" Form which will be made available on
the ASO web site.

The list of nominated individuals and the supporting comments will be passed
to the Address Council after all nominees are confirmed, and prior to the
General Assembly meeting on 19 May 2000.

More information regarding the GA and nominations process will be posted to
the ASO web site (http://www.aso.icann.org) in due course.

END


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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC               <pwilson at apnic.net>
http://www.apnic.net                          ph/fx +61 7 3367 0490/82
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