Dear colleagues, RFC 7437/BCP 10, section 4.5, gives me the duty to appoint the Chair of the nominating committee (nomcom). I am extremely pleased to announce that Victor Kuarsingh has agreed to act as the Chair for the 2019-2020. Victor served on the nomcom for 2018-2019. Victor currently works as the Senior Director of Network Engineering at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helping lead their development of physical data center networking, the globalbackbone and edge service infrastructure. He has spent the last 19 years working across the networking field in both service provider and cloud environments building backbone infrastructure, data center infrastructure, video distributions networks, access networks for Cable, Wireless and Wireless, and business services networks. Victor has spent his time at the IETF as a contributor to IPv6, the Ops Area and more recently co-chair of Link State Vector Routing (LSVR). Many thanks to Victor for his willingness to serve the community this way. -- Andrew Sullivan President & CEO, Internet Society sullivan@xxxxxxxx