Summary

  • The APNIC 62 NRO Number Council ballot recorded 263 votes for Gazi Zehadul Kabir, 91 for Nicole T. I Chan and 12 for Param Vijay.
  • Kabir’s term begins on 1 January 2027 and ends on 31 December 2028, when Chan’s current term gives way to the incoming member.

APNIC has named the winner and the date his seat changes hands. Its APNIC 62 report says Gazi Zehadul Kabir won the one open position on the NRO Number Council (NRO NC). BigPulse’s result sheet records 263 votes for Kabir, 91 for outgoing member Nicole T. I Chan and 12 for Param Vijay. The three totals equal 366 recorded votes. The poll closed on 10 September 2026 at 19:00 AEST and used a first-past-the-post count.

The office begins later than the result. APNIC says Kabir’s two-year term runs from 1 January 2027 through 31 December 2028 and thanks Chan for her service. That leaves a visible transition: one APNIC community-elected place on a cross-regional council will pass from a departing member to an incoming one at the start of the new year.

The council’s remit gives the handoff its wider context. The NRO NC also serves as the Address Supporting Organization Address Council inside ICANN. It takes part in the Global Policy Development Process, advises on Internet number allocation policy and selects people for ICANN Board Seats 9 and 10. The council has 15 volunteers; each of the five RIR communities selects two, while each RIR board appoints a third.

That remit is collective and bounded. The ASO’s own FAQ says each RIR community proposes, discusses and accepts or rejects the regional policies that govern distribution of number resources. The NRO NC does not decide those regional policies by itself. Kabir will join a forum that connects the five regions to global coordination, not inherit a unilateral power to set APNIC’s allocation rules.

The published count answers who won, but not how many people could have voted or how the ballots divided among voter classes. The 366 is therefore a ballot total, not a turnout rate or a measure of support across the Asia-Pacific Internet population. That limit does not negate the result; it defines what the result can establish.

The next useful record is the handoff itself: an updated NRO NC roster showing the new term, followed by a public account of the council work in which the incoming member participates. The election fills one seat. The council’s later records will show how that seat is used within a shared process.

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