The Address Supporting Organization ( ASO ) is a supporting organization affiliated with ICANN . It was founded in 1999. Its members make up the Address Council . The ASO's web site states that the ASO's purpose "is to review and develop recommendations on Internet Protocol (IP) address policy and to advise the ICANN Board."
5-475: The ASO is made of up of representatives from each of the five regional internet registries . It nominates two members of the ICANN board of directors. This Internet-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a scientific organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Regional Internet registry A regional Internet registry ( RIR )
10-432: Is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers. The regional Internet registry system evolved, eventually dividing the responsibility for management to a registry for each of five regions of the world. The regional Internet registries are informally liaised through
15-548: The RIRs who, in turn, follow their regional policies to delegate resources to their customers, which include Internet service providers and end-user organizations. Collectively, the RIRs participate in the Number Resource Organization (NRO), formed as a body to represent their collective interests, undertake joint activities, and coordinate their activities globally. The NRO has entered into an agreement with ICANN for
20-777: The establishment of the Address Supporting Organisation (ASO), which undertakes coordination of global IP addressing policies within the ICANN framework. The Number Resource Organization ( NRO ) is an unincorporated organization uniting the five RIRs. It came into existence on October 24, 2003, when the four existing RIRs entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in order to undertake joint activities, including joint technical projects and policy coordination. The youngest RIR, AFRINIC , joined in April 2005. The NRO's main objectives are to: A local Internet registry ( LIR )
25-650: The unincorporated Number Resource Organization (NRO), which is a coordinating body to act on matters of global importance. As of 2005, there are currently five regional registries: Regional Internet registries are components of the Internet Number Registry System, which is described in IETF RFC 7020, where IETF stands for the Internet Engineering Task Force. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) delegates Internet resources to
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