Confirmed Nominees for Representatives to the ASO Address Council 2007
- RIPE NCC Service Region

Table of Contents

• Candidate Statement
• Background information
• Motivation for nomination
• Expressions of Support

Candidate Statement

Name of Nominee: Hans Petter Holen
Country of residence: Norway
Organisation: Visma IT AS

Background information:

Active participant in the RIPE community for more than ten years. Founder of several Local Internet Registries (LIRs). Previous chair of RIPE Address Policy Working Group and member of the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council (AC) since the foundation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Currently in the process of establishing Visma IT as an LIR.

Motivation for nomination:

I have been an active participant in the RIPE community since the beginning of the 1990s when establishing one of the first commercial ISPs and LIRs in Norway. Prior to this I had a short career as node manager for the Norwegian UUCP node while working at the University of Oslo - but that is hardly relevant anymore.

I am strongly in favor of well documented procedures and open and transparent processes - and have done my best to contribute to these by taking active part in working-groups and task forces to document and improve policy documentation.

As previous chair of the LIR-wg and later Address Policy-wg I have been committed to open discussion and open process for policy development in RIPE. I am happy to see that the Address Policy-wg is now in good hands by my successors chairs of the workinggroup.

As member of the ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council since its formation - I have taken active part in bringing the RIRs and ICANN together in the accoord prior to the formation of the NRO. As chair of the address council I drafted several of the early procedures for conducting business for the address council. I have also been committed to keep the proceedings of the Address Council as open as possible by always suggesting opening up our meetings to RIR observers, ICANN observers and even suggesting public minutes being made available from informal meetings.

Today I believe the challenges of the Addressing community and thus the Address council are twofold:

First - We need to take active part in bringing the transition policy discussions forward in the regions.

This is both for the global policies concerning the remaining parts of the IPv4 space, but perhaps just as important the future role for the RIRs in maintaining the IPv4 address space.

I cannot offer you any solutions to how we should deploy IPv6 or how we should deal with the remaining IPv4 space. I may have opinions on what may work and what might not - and I do look forward to take part in fruitful discussions with the RIPE community on this matter.

What I can offer is my experience as a long time member of the community to bring the discussion forward and bring the RIPE point of view to the Address council.

As I have worked for small startup IPSs, the Incumbent, a multi national ISP, and several content providers and now a multi-national software and services company who offers application services on the Internet - I believe I can add most perspectives to the discussion and understand the different points of view.

I have also worked with regulatory issues - and appreciate the difference between "the regulatory way" and "the Internet tradition".

Secondly - The address council must maintain and improve an open and transparent way of acting.

There are several small matters I would like to see the AC work further on:

• getting the most recent procedures up on the ASO AC web
• keeping tradition for open and transparent meetings
• being active participants in the regions
• show our presence at ICANN meetings together with the NRO

While my job today is mainly on the management side - I do still know how to set up BGP4 and analyze network performance. I am just now in a process to establish my company as a LIR and have started on a long term informal plan to prepare for IPv6.

If my services are still wanted by the community I will gladly accept another 3 year term on the NRO Number Council aka the ICANN Address Council.

Expressions of Support:

Name of nominating individual: Janos Zsako
Organisation: 3C Kft.

Motivation: I have known Hans Petter since 1995, when we worked together on the editorial committee for the document ripe-104.bis. He was always active of the RIPE LIR Working Group (WG), later RIPE Address Policy WG. He has a lot of experience, as he served on the ASO Address Council from its beginning, acting as Chairman of the ASO Address Council for several years. Hans Petter is also a well respected member of the RIPE community.

Name of nominating individual: Nigel Titley
Organisation: Easynet Group Plc

Motivation: In my considered opinion, Hans Petter has performed his duties as a member of the ASO Address Council in an exemplary manner. Since he is willing to stand again, I have no hesitation in nominating him.

Name of nominating individual: Thor-Henrik Kvandahl
Organisation: Telenor

Motivation: Hans Petter has an exceptional understanding of how the Internet is working. He has proven this for me as a colleague in 1997 and by is excellent work as chair for the RIPE Address Policy Working Group and as the ASO Address Council member. Hans Petter's very good combination of technical knowledge and administrative organisation of the Internet makes him the perfect choice as a member of the ASO Address Council.