All - Please find below some high level outcomes and observations from this years NomCom. Issues of particular interest to the community include both the issues related to recruiting and supporting nominees and the corner cases we encountered that which may require updates to our current guiding documents. The list closes with a few action steps that everyone can take to help improve next years process. We will be happy to take questions and community feedback either in Plenary or via email: nomcom-2016@xxxxxxxx Details on this years membership and the outcomes of our selection processes can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2016/ I want to thank everyone who participated this cycle. The inputs, the willingness to serve, and the willingness to support nominee participation all contributed to our results. Special thanks to Peter Yee for stepping up as the in-coming NomCom Chair. Lucy Lynch NomCom Chair 2016-2017 NomCom 2016-2017 The Three Stages of the NomCom Process - Recruit and Select NomCom Members (March -> July) -- Calls for Volunteers -- Direct email/Registration tick box volunteers -- Random Selection Process --- 10 voting members drawn from a pool of 128 volunteers - Recruit Nominees and Gather Data (July -> November) -- Position Descriptions -- Call for Nominations --- Out of 97 nominations 39 were accepted. -- Questionnaires -- Community Feedback -- Interviews with IAB/IESG/IAOC Chairs -- Interviews with exiting IAB/IESG Members -- Nominee Interviews (38 on-site in Seoul, 1 by phone) - Select for Open Positions (November -> March) -- NomCom review of all inputs -- First order sorting -- Discussion of top ranked nominees -- Straw Polls/Condorcet ranking/etc. -- Up/Down E-Vote to confirm top choices -- Submit for approval (IAB/ISOC/IESG) -- Announce slates when approved. -- Feedback provided to nominees who accepted a nomination on request. Bonus Round Nominee Process (2016-2017) - Recruit/Select/Submit/Announce for short term ART AD vacancy -- mandated 6 week time-line start to finish -- appointment must run a full year -- had to complete before IETF 98 -- There were 14 nominations and 4 people accepted -- Interviews were conducted via WebEX -- Selection and Approval process was successful Areas of Weakness: - Some Areas have very small leadership pools -- OPS/INT/TSV --- persistent issue over several NomCom cycles - Employer support for participation -- we are losing good candidates due to lack of support -- the value to the IETF and the nominee may be well understood -- the value proposition for the employer needs work/promotion - Clear and distinct position descriptions -- The IAOC and IAB material may be too generic for the *randomly selected* NomCom members who don't track these bodies closely. -- The Operations and Management distinction not always reflected in community nominations so may need additional flagging. IETF Internal Data and Tools: - Validating status for NomCom volunteers -- existing data has some gaps -- but this is improving with each round of registrations - Validating primary email addresses in the data-tracker -- some folk don't see their nomination due to stale email in profiles - Tools and AMS folk provide great support to the NomCom -- The tools depend on good data to function -- Tools team was quick to fix issues and small requests -- There is a wish list for future features -- Still a lot of hand crafted tasks outside the existing tool set NomCom Lessons Learned (Re-learned): - We needed a Questionnaire for the IETF Chair position -- we used the IESG form but had additional questions - All of the questionnaires are long but... hard to cut down. - There is a strong bias toward Two Term appointments -- one and three term appointment options engender a lot of discussion - Nominations and feedback both come from a small sub-set of the community -- less then 100 individuals overall - A "living" NomCom Chairs Best Practices document would be useful RFC Updates Needed: - The composition of the IESG has changed (and may again) -- document the 3 AD pattern -- document the 2 AD (not alike) pattern - We need to document the process for filling an IESG to IESG move --- current text addresses IAB to IESG --- additional patterns may also occur and... The Elephant in the Room: - Remote Participation -- The NomCom has a 3 of 5 meeting requirement for both the Chair and the membership -- We had one nominee who has been primarily remote -- Visa and meeting location issues Three things every IETFer can do - Check your status to volunteer for the NomCom -- https://www.ietf.org/registration/nomcom.py -- and work with AMS to update your records as needed -- if you qualify, check the NomCom Volunteer box when your register - Check your profile in the data-tracker -- https://datatracker.ietf.org/accounts/profile/ -- are your Primary and Active email details correct? - Provide feedback on the Nominees! -- consider providing area and issue feedback as well