As previously announced, the IAB is planning to select a person to serve on the
ICANN NOMCOM for a one year term. The following people are candidates for that
role (in alphabetical order):
Arbogast Ishemo Fabian
Stephen Kent
John Levine
S Moonesamy
Russ Mundy
Mark Townsley
Samuel Weiler
Hassan Zaheer
The community is invited to send comments about this selection to the IAB chair
<iab-chair at iab.org> and the IAB Executive Director <execd at iab.org>. We
expect to make a decision within the next few weeks.
Thanks in advance,
Russ Housley
IAB Chair
On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:36 PM, IAB Chair wrote:
> Please forward to all interested parties.
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The IAB (on behalf of the IETF) has been asked to supply a member to the 2014
> ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) by 15 August 2013. We would therefore
> like to ask the community for volunteers to serve on the ICANN NomCom. If you
> are interested, please send a short e-mail to iab-chair at iab.org with a
> copy to execd at iab.org with your motivation and information concerning your
> familiarity with the IETF and ICANN. The deadline for volunteering is 19
> July 2013.
>
> The IAB will select from the available candidates, taking into account the
> familiarity with ICANN and the IETF, their roles, and their processes. The
> selected candidate will serve on the ICANN NomCom on personal title; however,
> we will be looking for a candidate who has an understanding of the interests
> of the technical community.
>
> The ICANN NomCom process itself is governed by the ICANN bylaws; an abstract
> of the relevant articles can be found at http://nomcom.icann.org/bylaws.htm.
> In addition, each NomCom determines a number of its own operational
> procedures, including the role of the NomCom in recruiting and selecting
> candidates.
>
> The ICANN Nominating Committee typically meets in person at or around three
> consecutive ICANN meetings. The first of these meetings, when the
> committee is formally established, will be held 22-23 November 2013
> following the Buenos Aires ICANN meeting on 17-21 November. The committee
> will next attend the "Spring" ICANN meeting, which in 2014 will be in
> Singapore on 23-27 March 2014. Finally, the committee will meet during and
> after the "Summer" ICANN meeting in London on 22-26 June 2014 where the final
> slate of candidates for the ICANN Board, the GNSO, ccNSO,and ALAC will be
> agreed upon.
>
> Candidates should be able to join monthly teleconferences (typically at UTC
> 14:00), with the expectation that these teleconferences will held weekly
> during the candidate assessment process in May-June.
>
> NOTE: ICANN does cover travel and hotel costs for a pre-determined number of
> days at each of the 3 consecutive ICANN meetings.
>
> For more information about the ICANN NomCom see: http://nomcom.icann.org/.
> If you are willing to be considered or would like to nominate someone for the
> position, please send an email to iab-chair at iab.org and execd at iab.org.
>
> On behalf of the IAB,
> Russ Housley
> IAB Chair
