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

Dear All,
I have not seen to many coments to this proposal from the communicty yet. As
this may be an important step forward for the Addressing community in
formalizing the relationship with ICANN I would really urge all of you to
spend some time reading the proposals.

My very brief exec overview is:

1) The RIRs set up a comtting copperation trough the Numbering Resource
Organisation so that they can enter into agreements witth 3rd parties.

2) An executive council is formed to have such authority

3) and to ratify global addressing policy

4) a Number Council with 3 representatives from each RIR is set up to give
the Exec Board advice on global addressing policy

5) In the Number Council 1 representative is appointed by the RIR boards -
the orther trough an open process

6) In the ICANN relationship the Number council acts as the Address council

7) There is a definition of Global Policy process

It would be interesting to se community comments on theese issues - please
read
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/draft-public-comment.html ! and
http://www.apnic.net/nro-comments !

Best Regards
Hans Petter Holen
Address Policy Chair

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Axel Pawlik" <axel.pawlik at ripe.net>
To: <ncc-co at ripe.net>; <local-ir at ripe.net>; <address-policy-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: [address-policy-wg] Proposed Open Letter to ICANN and Related
Documents


|
| 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 at apnic.net. 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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|
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|
| All postings to this mail address (nro-comments at apnic.net) are
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|
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|
| kind regards,
|
| Axel Pawlik
| Managing Director
| RIPE NCC
|