The NomCom 2012-2013 Call for Volunteers has now passed its halfway point. Therefore, if you are considering volunteering to participate in the 2012-2013 NomCom, please do so soon. General information on this year's NomCom (including a list of positions to be filled) can be found at: https://www.ietf.org/nomcom/2012/ The success of the NomCom process depends on randomly selecting a committee that is a representative sample of the our community. We endeavor to have a NomCom reflecting the diversity of experience and viewpoints that is our community's greatest strength. However, to achieve this goal we must have the largest possible pool of volunteers that from throughout the IETF community. I am pleased to report that we have had a strong initial response to the First Call for Volunteers, with 74 qualified individuals agreeing to volunteer their time. I greatly appreciate the generosity and commitment to our community exhibited by all of these individuals. However, the pool of volunteers is not yet as diverse as it should be to reflect the breadth of our community with regards to nationality, gender and organizational affiliation. Therefore, I would especially encourage to volunteer those individuals whose participation would increase the diversity of our volunteer pool. If you have volunteered before 12:00 noon UTC on July 24, 2012 and you have not received a confirmation email from me, then an error has occurred and I would request that you resend your email. Details on how to volunteer can be found at the end of this message. To summarize, please volunteer by sending me an email containing your name, affiliation, and the email address you use to register for IETF meetings. The 74 qualified individuals who have so far volunteered are listed below. I apologize for any errors in this list, please notify me of any errors as soon as possible. Sam Aldrin, Huawei Ignas Bagdonas, Cisco Lou Berger, LabN Consulting Randy Bush, IIJ Dennis Cai, Cisco Daniele Ceccarelli, Ericsson Gang Chen, China Mobile Andras Csaszar, Ericsson Hui Deng, China Mobile Keith Drage, Alcatel-Lucent John Drake, Juniper Donald Eastlake, Huawei Charles Eckel, Cisco Mehmet Ersue, Nokia Siemens Networks Miguel Garcia, Ericsson Eric Gray, Ericsson Wassim Haddad, Ericsson Stephen Hanna, Juniper Sam Hartman, Painless Security Jia He, Huawei Giles Heron, Cisco Paul Hoffman, VPN Consortium Christer Holmberg, Ericsson Fangwei Hu, ZTE Andrew Hutton, Siemens Enterprise Communications Cullen Jennings, Cisco Yuanlong Jiang, Huawei Sheng Jiang, Huawei Lizhong Jin, ZTE Stephen Kent, BBN Ari Keranen, Ericsson Ning Kong, CNNIC Jouni Korhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks Mirja Kuehlewind, University of Stuttgart Eliot Lear, Cisco Hongyu Li, Huawei Guoman Liu, ZTE Wenhu Lu, Ericsson Yuxia Ma, ZTE Andrew Malis, Verizon Terry Manderson, ICANN Scott Mansfield, Ericsson Luca Martini, Cisco David Meyer, Cisco Monique Morrow, Cisco Thomas Nadeau, Juniper Karen O'Donoghue, Internet Society Borje Ohlman, Ericsson Keyur Patel, Cisco Teemu Savolainen, Nokia Benson Schliesser, Juniper John Scudder, Juniper Karen Seo, BBN Arturo Servin, LACNIC Shuo (Sean) Shen, CNNIC David Sini, Ericsson Haibin Song, Huawei Tom Taylor, PT Taylor Consulting Pascal Thubert, Cisco Mark Townsley, Cisco Tina Tsou, Huawei Bill VerSteeg, Cisco Thomas Walsh, Juniper Yinxing Wei, ZTE Stephan Wenger, Vidyo Magnus Westerlund, Ericsson Steven White, Alcatel-Lucent Qin (Bill) Wu, Huawei Leaf Yeh, Huawei Lixia Zhang, UCLA Zhaohui (Jeff) Zhang, Juniper Yi Zhao, Huawei Qian (Cathy) Zhou, Huawei Ning Zong, Huawei To be eligible, volunteers for the nomcom need to have attended 3 of the past 5 IETF meetings as of the time this announcement goes out. That is, 3 meetings from IETF 79 (Beijing) - IETF 83 (Paris). If you qualify, and if you will not be seeking appointment to any of the open positions that this nomcom will be filling, please consider volunteering. The primary activity for this nomcom will begin in August 2012 and should be completed in January 2013. The nomcom will be collecting requirements from the community, as well as talking to candidates and obtaining feedback from community members about candidates. There will be regularly scheduled conference calls to ensure progress. Thus, being a nomcom member does require some time commitment. Please volunteer by sending an email before 11:59 pm EDT (UTC - 4 hours) August 5, 2012 as follows: To: mlepinski.ietf@gmail.com Subject: Nomcom 2012-13 Volunteer Please include the following information in the body: <Your Full Name> // As you enter in the IETF Registration Form, // First/Given name followed by Last/Family Name <Current Primary Affiliation> // typically what goes in the Company field // in the IETF Registration Form [<all email addresses used to Register for the past 5 IETF meetings>] <Preferred email address> // <Telephone number> // For confirmation if selected Please expect an email response from me within 3 business days stating whether or not you are qualified. If you don't receive a response, please re-send your email with the tag "RESEND:" added to the subject line. If you are not yet sure you would like to volunteer, please consider that nomcom members play a very important role in shaping the leadership of the IETF. Ensuring the leadership of the IETF is fair and balanced and comprised of those who can lead the IETF in the right direction is an important responsibility that rests on the IETF participants at large. Volunteering for the nomcom is a good way of contributing toward that goal. I will be publishing a more detailed timetable for nomcom activities, as well as details of the randomness seeds to be used for the RFC 3797 selection process, within the next couple days. Thank you, Matthew Lepinski nomcom-chair@ietf.org (or mlepinski.ietf@gmail.com)
