Countdown to the next LIR Working Group meeting

Dear LIR WG,
A new RIPE meeting is approaching and we have some important business to
conduct. I have just posted the minutes from the last working group meeting
to the list, with the comments I have received from the participants.

The time since the last meeting has been particularly busy, partially
because the company I work for has been bought by Infostream ASA, partially
because several people left the company leaving me with the task of
rebuilding the sales and marketing department. Things are now returning to
normal, and I hope to have some more time to spend on RIPE and ICANN ASO
business.

The most important thing that has happened this autumn was the ICANN meeting
in Los Angeles. The long version of what happened at that meeting can be
found at the ICANN web site at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la/archive/  The formal version, IE, the
minutes from the Board meeting:
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-4nov99.htm

The short version of what happened related to the Address Supporting
Organisation, http://www.aso.icann.org according to my memory is:

- The Address Council and the ASO directors met with some ICANN board
members and staff to get aquatinted and have informal discussions on how to
proceed with our work.

- The Address Council had an open meeting, minutes can be found at:
http://aso.icann.org/mailing-lists/aso-policy/9912/msg00000.html
(The minutes from the previous phone conference can be found at:
http://aso.icann.org/mailing-lists/aso-announce/9911/msg00000.html )

- The discussions on the ad Hoc committee turned into something that seems
more acceptable to all parties.

-I had the pleasure of presenting the status of the work done by the Address
Council so far to the ICANN annual meeting.
http://home.sol.no/~hph/ASO/ICANN%20ASO%20rapport%209911/

After this the address council as such has not done that much work, our
eminent staff at the regionally registries are however driving the process
forward and have been working to move things forward. The European part of
the AC will thus meet with the RIPE NCC executive board next week to discuss
how to proceed.
There is however some items on the action lists that needs to be taken care
of:

LIR-34.4 Form a task force for documenting the existing policy process

LIR.34.6 Form a task force to define final Address council selection
procedure

Sincerely,
Hans Petter Holen
Chair LIR-WG