Re: IMPORTANT: ICANN ASO, Your Expicit Support Required.

[Hank Nussbacher <]

At 13:55 14/07/99 +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

It would appear your aso-discuss list is stuck.  I posted something on
15/7/99 and as of 18/7/99 it doesn't appear at:
http://www.ripe.net/mail-archives/aso-discuss/index.html

Did it get thru?

-Hank

>
>=====> your explicit support is needed, see further below <=======
>	
>Dear Colleagues, 
>
>We have recently published the draft proposal for the ICANN Address
Supporting 
>Organisation (ASO). The proposal is the result of numerous discussions
>within the
>RIPE community and the collective effort of all the Regional Internet
>Registries:
>APNIC, ARIN and the RIPE NCC.
>
>The proposal reflects the input we have received from the community. In
>particular
>it builds on the existing regional structures and proposes to continue 
>using the well established processes we have been using to develop address
>space
>related policies over the years. This eliminates the need for you to
>participate in 
>another, global, process of IP addressing policy development in order to be
>represented
>and defend your interests.
>
>The Regional Internet Registries plan to collectively submit the ASO
proposal 
>to ICANN later this month. This will allow ICANN to consider the proposal at 
>the ICANN meeting to be held on 24-26 August 1999 in Santiago, Chile.
>
>The cover letter and draft proposal for a MoU-based ASO document can be
found 
>under the current issues section at:
>
>http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html
>
>If you have any comments or discussion points please use the mailing list 
>aso-discuss@localhost.
>
>If you can support the draft as is, please register your explicit support
>on that
>list too. Since there is at least one other proposal (also referenced from
>the URL above)
>it is extremely important that our proposal collects as much explicit
>support from ISPs
>as possible. Without this support being explicit, ICANN will not be able to
>decide on the establishment of the ASO in an expeditious fashion.
>It will be very useful if your supporting message would include
>
>- Organisation Name								
>- RIPE NCC registry ID (if a LIR and if known)
>- Function (get someone with an impressive job title to send it ;-)
>
>
>Thank you for your support
>
>
>Rob Blokzijl		Chairman of RIPE
>Keith Mitchell		Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board 
>Daniel Karrenberg	General Manager of the RIPE NCC 
>
>