Address Supporting Organization

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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."

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.

## External links

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* Official site
* Address Supporting Organization: About the ASO

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ICANN's structure and board of directors

Supporting organizations
(6 representatives on the board)|

* Address
* ASO
* Generic Names
* GNSO
* Country Code Names
* CCNSO

Advisory committees
(5 representatives)|

* At Large
* ALAC
* Root Server System
* RSSAC
* Security & Stability
* SSAC
* Technical Liaison Group
* TLG
* Internet Engineering Task Force
* IETF

Governmental
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* Governmental Advisory Committee
* GAC

Others
(9 representatives)|

* Independent representatives (8), selected through a nominating committee
* Director and CEO, appointed by the rest of the board of directors

More details are available at www.icann.org/en/groups/chart

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