NomCom Chair -- 10 November 1997 -- IETF ---------------------------------------- Nominations for IETF positions: The following was sent out about a week ago and the Nomcom has received some responses, but not all that many considering the number of people involved in the IETF. This is your chance to affect the course of the IETF and internet technology. Please take a few minutes to consider the people on the IESG and IAB you may have had contact with and comment on their successes or failures over the last two years. Please also take a few minutes to consider whether you could do better - and volunteer! Failing that, we'd like to hear from you about other capable, (but shy) candidates that might not volunteer without a little push. Although we have no formal timeframe for closing nominations, we expect that we will begin final considerations for a number of the open positions shortly after the December IETF so get your suggestions in early! Thanks - Mike The Nominations Committee is beginning its process of building a slate of nominees to fill IESG and IAB positions whose current appointee's terms have expired. This is a process we expect to take approximately 3 months from start to finish. The members whose terms are expiring are: In the IESG: Fred Baker IETF Chair Jeff Burgan Internet Joel Halpern Routing Keith Moore Applications Mike O'Dell Operations & Management Joyce K. Reynolds User Services Allyn Romanow Transport Jeff Schiller Security In the IAB: Brian Carpenter Steve Bellovin Jon Crowcroft Robert Elz John Klensin Radia Perlman The IESG is still in discussions about its organization which may result in more or less positions being open for nominations. In general, terms on the IAB and IESG are for a 2 year period. However, as the result of the most recent Poised process, we've been asked to consider nominating as many as four IESG members 3 year terms to even out the number of members up for appointment each year. What the Nominations Committee needs from the IETF membership are three things: 1) Comments (good or bad) on the incumbents for various positions and whether the nomcom should nominate them for reappointment; 2) suggestions for other candidates for appointment to the various positions; and 3) and most importantly - volunteers to fill these positions. Email addressing any of the above can be sent to the Nomcom at nomcom98@corp.home.net. Alternatively, if you'd like to make relatively anonymous comments you may send them to me at stjohns@corp.home.net and I'll forward them without attribution to the rest of the nomcom. Most of us will also be at the December IETF and will be happy to take your comments there as well. The nominations committee for this year is: Michael StJohns (chair, non-voting) stjohns@corp.home.net Scott Bradner (IESG liason, non-voting) sob@harvard.edu Tony Hain (IAB liason, non-voting), tonyhain@microsoft.com Geoff Huston (past Chair, non-voting), gih@telstra.net Voting Members: Bernard Aboba Uri Blumenthal John Boudreaux Avri Doria Rik Drummond Donald Eastlake Steve Hole Steve Kent Keith McClogrie Lixia Zhang Thank you in advance for your assistance! Mike