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To the IETF Community,
One of the roles of the Internet Society (ISOC) President is to appoint the IETF Nominations Committee chair. This is done through consultation with members of the IETF community,
as well as input from past IETF NomCom Chairs. It gives me great pleasure to announce that Harald Alvestrand has agreed to serve as the 2015 - 2016 IETF Nominations Committee chair.
Harald is a former Chair of the IETF from 2001 – 2006. He has been active in Internet standardization with the
IETF since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs, including
RFC 1766, the first standard for language tags in Internet protocols. Mr. Alvestrand’s commitment to the Internet standardization processes also includes being Director of the Applications area from 1995 to
1998, the Director of the Operations & Management area from 1998 to 1999, and a member of the
Internet Architecture Board from 1999-2001.
The NomCom process is critical to the health and success of the IETF and it’s important that it have robust support from the community. A Call for Nominations for this committee
will be sent shortly to the IETF Announcement list; and a list of IESG, IAB and IAOC/IETF Trust seats to be filled will also be published. Please consider volunteering for the Nominations Committee as well as send candidate recommendations for the open positions
to Harald, who will share them with the committee when seated.
Thanks again to everyone for their support and special thanks to Harald for agreeing to take on this important responsibility. Harald can be reached at
harald@alvestrand.no.
Kathryn C Brown
President & CEO
Internet Society
Kathryn C Brown
President & CEO Internet Society |
