[address-policy-wg] Proposed Open Letter to ICANN and Related Documents

[Axel Pawlik <]

Dear Colleagues,


The Regional Internet Registries (RIR) have published
three (3) documents:

  a.  Proposed Open Letter to ICANN from the Regional
      Internet Registries
  b.  Proposed Agreement between the RIRs to create the
      Number Resource Organization
  c.  Proposed Agreement between the RIRs (acting through
      the NRO) and ICANN concerning the Address Supporting
      Organization

These documents are available on a single web page at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/draft-public-comment.html

In order to ensure that RIR members and address communities in every
region have the opportunity to comment, the Board of the RIRs have
requested that RIRs post the documents for a period of 30 days. The
comment period closes at midnight (UTC) on the 22nd October 2003.

Each of the RIR Boards will consider the comments as they are
received, and each RIR Board intends to make a decision whether to
adopt these documents following this comment period. If these
documents are adopted by all the RIR Boards, it is the present
intention to formally pass the following open letter to ICANN on the
24th of October. On the same date the Boards of the RIRs currently
intend to direct their CEOs to sign the MoU concerning the
establishment of the Number Resource Organization.

All comments should be addressed to: nro-comments@localhost. The
comments will be passed to all the Boards of the RIRs, and will also
be published on the web site http://www.apnic.net/nro-comments. Any
dialogue that arises from such comments will also be published on this
site.

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kind regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC