NRO Number Council
The Number Resource Organization (NRO) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed in October 2003, called for the creation of a Number Council. The MoU reads, in part:
"The NRO Number Council shall be responsible for the provision of advice to the Executive Council concerning the ratification of proposed global IP number resource allocation policies.
"The NRO Number Council shall act as a point of consultation to external entities on proposed global IP number resource policies, addressing questions that may be raised concerning such policy proposals, maintaining a dialogue with the entity and the RIRs concerning these proposals as required.
"The NRO Number Council shall develop procedures in an accessible, open, transparent and documented manner for conducting business in support of their responsibilities and submit these procedures to the Executive Council for approval."
In October 2004, the NRO and ICANN signed the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) MoU, which dictated that the NRO Number Council fulfill the role of ICANN's ASO Address Council (ASO AC). The ASO AC, consisting of members appointed or elected to the NRO Number Council, will continue to function as a role of ICANN as required in ICANN's Bylaws.
Each Regional Internet Registry (RIR) has three members on the Number Council.
Read the Election Guidelines for more information on how NRO NC members are nominated and elected or appointed.
Current Members of the NRO NC from the ARIN Region
Martin Hannigan 
is a Management Consultant for a
large ILEC in the Caribbean portion of the ARIN region. His
responsibilities include providing internal support and architecture,
engineering and operations review, and participating in both the
regional and global Internet community. He also works with a number of
venture funds evaluating new technology business proposals and helping
to remove roadblocks to their success.
Martin has held a number of business management and senior technical positions at companies including Verisign, Renesys, InterNap, Cignal Global Communications, Level(3) Communications, Microsoft, Bose Corporation, and the USG. As a founding member of the Boston Internet Special Interest Group, he's been evangelizing public internet access as far back as 1989 in North America.
The ARIN Board of Trustees appointed Martin to a three-year term ending 31 December 2008.
Louis Lee 
has occupied leading positions in network operations since 1995. Prior to his current employment at Equinix, Louie operated Netcom On-Line Communications' network (later ICG Communications) for several years.
Equinix recruited him in early 2000 to run the corporate wide-area & local-area networks, and build carrier-class neutral public network exchanges in the Equinix Internet Business Exchange centers. His team operates and maintains seven exchange switch fabrics and five paid peering fabrics across the United States. He also supports four exchange switch fabrics in the Asia-Pacific region. In September 2005, Louie was promoted to Senior Network Architect into the newly-created New Service Development division where his new role includes research & development in the areas of network switch technologies, IPv6, and multicast applications.
Louie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis. His plans to enter into the health sciences field were permanently interrupted by his hobby-turned-career. Louie was elected for a second three-year term ending 31 December 2009, and has been elected to serve as Chair of the NRO NC for 2008
Jason Schiller 
is a Senior Internet Network Engineer in the Global IP Network Engineering Department at Verizon Business. He first joined the UUNET High Speed Install Department in October of 1998, and transferred to Network Engineering in early 2000. Jason joined Verizon Business through various mergers and acquisitions.
Jason's current role includes architecting, designing, evaluating, and qualifying networks for deployment in the UUNET / Verizon Business public IP network. He also completes field trials and acts as highest level of escalation. He is also responsible for defining and maintaining global standards for the UUNET / Verizon Business public IP networks.
Jason continues to be active in the ARIN, NANOG, and IETF communities with particular interest in IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 adoption, routing table growth, and the lack of a scalable solution for multi-homing and inter-AS traffic engineering. He is serving on the IETF Routing and Addressing Directorate.
Jason received two degrees from The American University, one in International Studies and Philosophy, and the other in Environmental Studies.
His current term expires 31 December 2010.
| Former ASO AC/NRO NC Members | Dates of Service |
|---|---|
| Sanford George | January 2005 - December 2007 |
| Lee Howard | January 2005 - December 2005 |
| Mark McFadden | January 2003 - December 2004 |
| Kim Hubbard | January 2003 - December 2003 |
| Eric Decker | January 2002 - December 2004 |
| Barbara Roseman | January 2001 - December 2002 |
| Raimundo Beca | November 1999 - December 2001 |
| Cathy Wittbrodt | November 1999 - December 2002 |
| David Meyer | November 1999 - December 2000 |