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The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) is a ''supporting organization'' affiliated with
ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
. 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 A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers. T ...
. It nominates two members of the
ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
board of directors.


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