News

11 October 2017 - We wish to inform you that the ASO AC is calling for nominations to the Seat 9 on the ICANN Board of Directors.

The selected candidate will serve for a three-year term, which will begin at the conclusion of the ICANN Annual General Assembly during the ICANN 63 meeting scheduled for October 20-26, 2018, in Barcelona, Spain. The deadline for nomination is Sunday 17 December

2017 at 23:59 UTC. Find more details in the official announcement at https://aso.icann.org/aso-ac-calls-for-nominations-to-seat-9-on-the-icann-board-of-directors/

2 October 2017 - AFRINIC is calling for comments on a revision to the Registration Service Agreement (RSA).  The draft revised RSA may be found here.

This revision to the RSA is necessary to allow transfers in accordance with the recently-approved policy AFPUB-2016-V4-003-DRAFT03 “IPv4 Resources transfer within the AFRINIC Region”.

A few additional changes for clarity and consistency are also incorporated into the draft revised RSA In the document here, deletions are marked with strikeout and additions are marked with underline.  Colours are used to mark different kind of changes, as follows:

  • magenta for the core changes needed to allow for transfers in accordance with adopted policies; 
  • yellow for definitions and related changes needed to allow for transfers; 
  • green for minor changes made for consistency or readability; 
  • blue for other changes. 

Comments are welcome in the community-discuss mailing list until 30 October 2017.