This is an announcement of an IETF-wide Call for Comment on draft-iab-irtf-chair-description-00. The document is being considered for publication as an Informational RFC within the IAB stream, and is available for inspection here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-irtf-chair-description/ The Call for Comment will last until 2016-02-24. Please send comments to iab@iab.org. Abstract This document briefly describes the role of the Chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), discusses its duties and outlines the skill set a candidate for the role should ideally have.