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Strategic Internet IntelligenceJun 11, 2026
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Standards body

Address Supporting Organization Address Council

Standards body

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Why tracked

Council-level standards body whose ICP-2 revision process has become a test of RIR failure standards, portability and bottom-up number-resource governance.

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ICANN

The ASO Address Council presented the ICP-2 update to the ICANN Board at ICANN83 and operates within ICANN's Address Supporting Organization structure.

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ASO council moves RIR governance rewrite toward a second draft

The Address Supporting Organization Address Council has become the visible institutional object in the ICP-2 rewrite because the process is no longer only about admitting new Regional Internet Registries. The public debate now treats the revision as a test of failure standards, number-resource portability and how much central power can be added without hollowing out bottom-up governance.

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