Address Supporting Organization

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.

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ICANN's structure and its 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 (1 representative)	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 on www.icann.org/en/groups/chart