Reminder, the comment period ends on Friday 20 May 2011. Bob Begin forwarded message: > From: IETF Administrative Director <iad@xxxxxxxx> > Date: May 6, 2011 4:23:30 PM EDT > To: IETF Announcement list <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: wgchairs@xxxxxxxx, ietf@xxxxxxxx, iaoc@xxxxxxxx, rfc-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, iab@xxxxxxx, iesg@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Draft Secretariat SOW for Community Comment: Deadline 20 May > > The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) plans to issue a > Request for Proposal (RFP) in late May for a vendor to perform the > Secretariat functions when the current contract ends on 31 January 2012. > To that end the IAOC invites community comments on the draft Statement of > Work (SOW) that is located at <http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfpsrfis.html>. > > The community comment period will run from 6 to 20 May 2011. The IAOC > will consider all comments it receives during that period. > > The Secretariat provides various meeting, IT, clerical, finance and other > services to Supporting Organizations, including Working Groups, Internet > Engineering Steering Group (IESG), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), IETF > Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), and the Internet Research > Steering Group (IRSG). > > Changes in this proposed SOW from the current Secretariat SOW include, > but aren't limited to: > > 1. Provision of IAB Administrative Services (IAB Executive Assistant) > 2. Provision of NomCom Administrative Services (NomCom Executive > Assistant) > 3. Provision of RFC Publisher Services, which will replace the current > separate contract, > 4. Adding the RFC Series Editor (RSE), Independent Submissions Editor > (ISE) and Nominating Committee (NomCom) to the list of Supported > Organizations for which services may be provided in the future. > 5. Production of minutes of the IETF Meeting Plenaries > 6. Requirement to book meeting venues three years in advance, instead of > two years, and > 7. Requirement to cryptography sign Internet-Drafts > > Community comment is due no later than 20 May 2011 to > secretariat-2012@xxxxxxxxx One may subscribe to that list here: > <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/secretariat-2012>. > > All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary > and may be used in the development of the SOW and a subsequent RFP. > > Thanks for your continuing advice and support. > > Ray Pelletier > IETF Administrative Director > Internet Society > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf