Dear colleagues, I write in my capacity as President of the Internet Society. This message is a request for nominations for the Chair of the NomCom for the 2023-2024 NomCom. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THE LIST. Send responses in respect of this message to sullivan@xxxxxxxx. The Subject: NomCom Chair 2023 will help automatic handling of your mail so that it does not get lost. I attempted to set the Reply-To header, but I don't know the current handling of that on the mailing list. This request is being made in accordance with the procedure outlined in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sullivan-nomcom-chair-select/. The draft is expired, but the procedure I will use is unaltered since last time (nobody sent me any comments on the draft, so I haven't updated it). BCP 10, RFC 8713 details the operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall Committees. Section 4.5 of that document requires me to select the Chair. A Chair must meet the qualifications to be a NomCom volunteer: • Must have attended at least three of the last five IETF meetings (for the current purposes, the way this will be interpreted is the same as any other case under the virtual format that has prevailed for the last couple years, or possibly according to the rules outlined in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-elegy-rfc8989bis/ in caser that is approved). • Must provide their full name, email address, and primary company or organization affiliation • Must be familiar with the IETF processes and procedures • Must not be serving on the Internet Society Board of Trustees, the IETF Trust, the IETF LLC Board of Directors, the IAB, or the IESG (this includes those who serve on these bodies in ex officio positions) • Must not be an employee or contractor of the IETF LLC The full set of requirements is available in BCP 10, sections 4.14 and 4.15; if BCP 10 is updated by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-elegy-rfc8989bis/, then the new section 4.14 prevails. The commitment is for two years, because each year's Chair becomes the Past Chair of the next NomCom. A Chair will need to have adequate time to dedicate to this job. Experience suggests that the position requires a lot of attention after the second IETF meeting of the year through the third meeting of the year, with work letting up after all the selections are done and announced (generally around the beginning of the next calendar year). Candidates who can affirm the availability of time and (if appropriate) employer support, will be preferred, but the inability to make such an affirmation right now does not disqualify a candidate. Successful Chairs always have considerable experience in the IETF, and many past Chairs have served in at least one NomCom in some capacity (not necessarily as voting volunteers). Given the ongoing pandemic, this call does not require that Chair candidates need to travel. Preference may be given to candidates who indicate a willingness and capacity to travel if it is necessary and desirable, but candidates who cannot or will not travel will not be disqualified. The Chair has several critical duties. These are laid out in BCP 10, particularly section 4.4 but also throughout the document. Overall the Chair needs to guide the NomCom to success, and needs to operate the selection process for Members. This requires the use of some tools, which currently are apparently largely designed to run in a UNIX or Linux environment. Other parts of the job require a significant amount of manual handling and therefore may be prone to errors. Anyone who accepts a nomination is required to agree to the following: I accept the nomination for NomCom Chair, and affirm that the President of the Internet Society may disclose my name as a candidate for NomCom Chair to anyone the President, in his sole judgement, believes may provide useful information regarding my suitability as Chair. Nominations are encouraged by anyone of any eligible candidate. Self-nominations are also encouraged. Self-nominations will need to make an explicit affirmation of the required agreement above; this may be provided along with the self-nomination if desired. Nominations by someone other than the nominee will be confirmed with the nominee, and will require a similar explicit agreement to the above statement. Please note that I will not consider anyone who is not nominated under this process, so if you want someone to be the next Chair you will need to nominate that person! This call for nominations closes at 23:59 UTC on 24 March 2023. Please share this call as widely as you like, including in any working groups where you think potential candidates may be! Best regards, Andrew -- Andrew Sullivan President & CEO, Internet Society sullivan@xxxxxxxx +1 416 731 1261
