ASO report
Thursday 5 September, Kitakyushu International Conference Centre, Kitakyushu, Japan
Minutes
Meeting commenced: 2:00pm
Chair: Kuo Wei Wu
The Chair introduced the ASO meeting and explained the agenda.
Contents
- Address Council election
- ASO status report
- Election procedure for ICANN ASO Address Council in the APNIC region
- Address Council election
The Chair explained the guidelines for the ASO election and invited the nominees or their representatives to speak.
The Chair explained that people could register their votes immediately and that no more votes would be taken after the ASO session ended. Result of votes were to be given at beginning of ICANN reform session.
Questions and discussion
- There was a discussion about the length of time needed for people to submit their votes. As there were no objections from the audience, the deadline remained the end of the ASO session.
Action items
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- ASO status report
[Presentation]
Kenny Huang, TWNIC
This presentation provided an overview of ASO activities. This included a report on the current members of the Address Council (AC) and the progress of the two emerging RIRs, LACNIC and AFRINIC. The presentation also discussed the status of the new version of RFC 2050, currently being drafted, the new global IPv6 Address policy, and the election of new ICANN board member from the AC.
Questions and discussion
Action items
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- Election procedure for ICANN ASO Address Council in the APNIC region
[Presentation]
Kuo Wei Wu, Acer, Inc.
This presentation provided an overview of previous discussions at APNIC 13 regarding possible changes to the election process. The presentation also outlined the suggestions by the APNIC EC for new election guidelines based on the discussions at APNIC 13. The EC proposed a third voting option that would permit only current members to vote in AC elections. The presenter asked attendees to comment on the EC's recommendation.
Questions and discussion
- There was a clarification about the option of individual APNIC membership. Individual membership would primarily be for allowing individuals to vote in the AC election. It was also clarified that individuals would not be able to vote in the EC election.
- It was suggested that a system that charged individuals to vote would be unfair. It was also suggested that it would be easy to sway the election results. For example, a larger member could seek to buy a number of smaller votes from individuals.
- There was a suggestion that members and interested parties should be allowed to vote by email.
- There was a concern that to only allow members to vote is a closed process. There was also concern that limiting AC voting to only current members disadvantages non-members who may be very active in the community.
- There was a question raised about how many votes members could have per membership tier.
- There was discussion on the feasibility of basing voting rights on previous attendance. There was concern about APNIC staff being able to keep track of previous meeting attendances. It was agreed that attendance information at early meetings would be hard to find, but that there are reasonably complete records from the last two years. However, the attendance records for meetings were not kept for use as voting permissions, so there would be no way of authenticating the information. One concern was that some people who register online do not always attend.
- There was concern expressed that a member's absence at APNIC meetings should not imply that the member is not active in the community and should not vote.
- It was pointed out that the number of meetings someone must attend to qualify for AC voting had not been established.
- There was a comment that the AC represents the AP region, not just APNIC members.
- A vote was held for the three EC suggestions on future AC election voting eligibility. There were 33 votes for voting rights based on previous attendance and membership; no votes for voting by members and individual members; and four votes for voting by current APNIC memberships only.
- The Chair observed consensus for allowing APNIC members and those who have attended previous APNIC meetings to vote.
Action items
- Action aso-14-001: It was decided to use option 1 for AC voting eligibility: attendance at previous meetings and APNIC membership. APNIC staff to work out the details and present to community for comment.
Meeting closed: 3:00pm
Minuted by: Sam Dickinson
Open action items
- Action aso-14-001: It was decided to use option 1 for AC voting eligibility: attendance at previous meetings and APNIC membership. APNIC staff to work out the details and present to community for comment.
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