______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT Session: APNIC Member Meeting Date: Friday 3 March 2006 Time: 2.00pm Presentation: AC report Presenter: Kenny Huang ______________________________________________________________________ PAUL WILSON: I'd just like to remind you all that the ballot box will be closing in a few minutes' time. So if you're in the process of filling in ballot papers, please finish up soon and put them into the ballot boxes. (Pause) OK, the ballot box is closing. Is there anyone who needs more time to submit votes? (None) OK. I think we can declare the voting closed and start the counting. Thanks, Chen Tao. Let's get started again. The first report is from Kenny, who is one of the Asia Pacific representatives on the Address Council. So he'll be giving a brief report on the Address Council activities in the last year. KENNY HUANG: Good afternoon. My name is Kenny Huang and I'm here giving the ASO update report. First of all, I'd like to introduce the organisation regarding to ASO and NRO. And basically it's NRO plus ICANN equals to ASO and NRO fulfils the responsibilities and functions of the ASO. Who is the Address Council? It's the Number Resource Organization Number Council. What is it - number resource policy advisory body. How is it organised? 15 members, three from each region, two selected at large, one appointed by RIR board and also including RIR and ICANN observers. Terms of office - two years, staggered. And how does that do? It advises ICANN board and selected ICANN board members and we have selected two ICANN board members and selected ICANN non-committee member. So here is the list - you can check from the URL below to see the 15 members from the different regions. So from ICANN board members appointed by ASO Address Council include Raimundo Beca and also Mouhamet Diop. Mouhamet's term will end on the end of June this year. Basically Address Council meetings include regular - right now it's a monthly teleconference meeting and also we have two annual physical meetings. Tentative physical meetings for year 2006 will be in April in Istanbul for RIPE 52 meeting and one in ICANN Latin America in November. Also Address Council members participate in original communities to get feedback from the meeting including policy meeting and also ICANN meeting. For recent Address Council activity including response to WSIS information request and advise ICANN staff of global policy proposal status and right now we are also doing global policy proposal processing procedure, also including ICANN strategic plan, review of website, review of documents for translation into different kinds of language and also select ICANN board member. Also cover NRO, Number Resource Organization, EC communications. And other internal processes. So here is the ICANN strategic plan. You can refer to the NRO EC for the strategic plan issue paper from the URL listed here (refers to slide). Also we select ICANN board member. The call for nominations for ICANN board seat already issued 5th of January this year. The nomination period will close on 4th of April, year 2006. OK, here talking about RIR policy development process that a lot of people are already familiar with. So we go through the open process, no accreditation - inclusive, accessible. And transparent - that means documents are published and accessible - PDP, policies and procedures. We also perform bottom-up process. The intercommunity proposes, discusses and approves the policies. So that shows the cycle from need to discuss and consensus, implement and evaluate. And thanks to Ray for making the very colourful slide. That's a global PDP defined in the ASO MoU. From regional communities they - the policy-making community define regional policies. The different regions integrate into global policies into ASO, then ASO AC goes through the internal process and submit to ICANN. Once approved they become global policies. So that's the meeting agenda for the year 2006. AfriNIC will be in May from 16 to 17. APNIC, we are in Perth and ARIN in Montreal and LACNIC starting in May 22 to 26 and RIPE 24 to 28 April in Istanbul. So here is one example like a global policy - IANA to RIR IPv6 policies. OK, I'll try to simplify. What is the proposed policy including the minimum allocation? That would be 18 months of necessary space. The necessary unit size will be /12. Another criteria is allocation criteria, for example available space less than 50% of one allocation unit or less than nine months necessary space or special need exists. So IANA, NRO and RIRs will make an announcements and update their websites. So that also passes through different kind of factor analysis, including for minimum allocation and allocation criteria, including conservation, aggregation, unique, neutral, impartial, consistent and accountability. So that covers what I mentioned in the whole life cycle from need to discuss and consensus in different RIRs and implement, including impact analysis and liability analysis and evaluate, in other words enabled by statistical collection. So that's the status for AfriNIC regarding IANA to RIR IPv6 allocation in AfriNIC they're under discussion. APNIC adopt the policy. ARIN adopt the policy. LACNIC already adopt the policy. RIPE adopt the policy. ICANN is to adopt the policy starting in first quarter of the year 2006. That's the policy archives for all regions. You can check the URLs here. And some information regarding all kind of communities and their website. OK, thank you very much. APPLAUSE PAUL WILSON: Are there any questions about the Address Council report? OK. Thank you, Kenny.