This year's Nomcom chair, Lakshminath Dondeti has requested that more people sign up to be Nomcom volunteers (only 50 people have signed up so far). Please see the details below and consider if you are eligible and willing to help.
Jari > > From: Lakshminath Dondeti > To: IETF Announcement > Date: June 4, 2007 > Subject: Nomcom 2007-8: First Call for Volunteers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Folks, > > If you have attended 3 out of the past 5 IETF meetings, you are eligible to > serve on Nomcom 2007-2008. Please volunteer and you may become one of the > voting members of the committee that selects about half of the members to the > IESG and IAB and one IAOC member. RFC 3777 describes the process and the > responsibilities in detail. Below is the list of people from the IESG, IAB > and > IAOC whose terms end during the March 2008 IETF meeting. > > IAOC: > > Ed Juskevicius > > IAB: > > Leslie Daigle > Elwyn Davies > Kevin Fall > Olaf Kolkman > David Oran > Eric Rescorla > > IESG: > > Lisa Dusseault -- Applications Area Director Jari Arkko -- Internet Area > Director Dan Romascanu -- Operations and Management Area Director Cullen > Jennings -- Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director Ross > Callon > --- Routing Area Director Sam Hartman -- Security Area Director Magnus > Westerlund -- Transport Area Director > > Before volunteering, please think about whether you want to be considered for > one of those positions instead. If you are already convinced, please send an > email before 12:00 noon ET (16:00 UTC/GMT) on July 5, 2007 (otherwise, please > read on) > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Nomcom 2007-8 Volunteer > Body: > > <Your Full Name> // As you enter in the IETF Registration Form, > // First/Given name followed by Last/Family Name > <Current Primary Affiliation> // typically what goes in the Company field > // in the IETF Registration Form > [<all email addresses used to Register for the past 5 IETF meetings>] > <Preferred > email address> // > <Telephone number> // For confirmation if selected > > Please expect an email response from me within 1-2 days stating whether you > are > qualified or not. If you don't receive anything, please re-send your email > with > the tag (duplicate) in the subject line. > > Not convinced yet? Please consider that nomcom members play an important role > in shaping the leadership of the IETF. If you are a people person, you will > enjoy meeting many of the active contributors to the IETF. If you prefer > instead to read a lot of email, well, we have that too. Being a nomcom member > is also an important responsibility: it requires adherence to confidentiality > rules and some time commitment from the members. The term begins just prior > to > the Chicago meeting and we expect most of the work to be completed by January > 2008. During this period, the nomcom members > > -- collect requirements from the community and interviews candidates > during the Chicago and Vancouver IETF meetings > -- review candidates' statements and weighs community feedback > -- participate in candidate selection deliberations (weekly conferences > calls) > > Nomcom members are selected following a publicly verifiable random selection > method specified in RFC 3797. > > For the nomcom to work as it should, the pool from which the volunteers are > chosen should be as large as possible. The more people who volunteer, the > better > chance we have of choosing a random yet representative cross section of the > IETF > population. > > Ensuring the leadership of the IETF is fair and balanced and comprised of > those > who can lead the IETF in the right direction is an important responsibility > that > rests on the IETF participants at large. Volunteering for the nomcom is a > good > way of contributing in that direction. So please volunteer! > > thanks, > Lakshminath > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
