Dear Operators - Please take a moment to volunteer yourself for the next NOMCOM. There are an interesting set of IAB and IESG folks whose terms expire, and now is an opportunity to correct the historical under-representation of operators in the choice of appointees to I* bodies. It is pretty simple - check RFC 2727 and the message I attach below. Tell your friends & colleagues too. Sean. - -- Message-Id: <200008291928.PAA29406@ietf.org> From: "Bernard Aboba" <aboba@internaut.com> To: IETF-Announce: ; Subject: 3rd (and last) Call for nominations committee volunteers Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:28:10 -0400 Sender: scoya@cnri.reston.va.us Lines: 103 Hi - I've been selected to chair the 2000 IETF Nominations Committee, the committee that will select this year's nominees for the IAB and the IESG. The good news is that I don't have a vote. The bad news is that we need to find 10 volunteers to fill this year's NomCom. Details about the NomCom process can be found in RFC 2727. If you've already volunteered, you can check that you're on the volunteer list by looking at: http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/internaut/nomcom2k.txt The NomCom is the IETF's way of choosing its leadership. Typically, half of the IAB and half of the IESG is selected each year. It is possible that the NomCom will have to fill more or fewer slots than this, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the IESG, resignations, transfers, etc. IESG members whose terms are up include Fred Baker, IETF Chair; Scott Bradner, Transport; Randy Bush, Operations & Management; Patrik Faltstrom, Applications; Thomas Narten, Internet; Dave Oran, Routing; and Jeff Schiller, Security. IAB members whose terms are up include: Harald Alvestrand, Ran Atkinson, Rob Austein, Steve Deering, Tony Hain and Geoff Huston. 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. Volunteering for the NomCom is also a good way of serving the IETF community. So please volunteer. NomCom members are barred from nomination during the year they serve, even if they later resign. Therefore being selected for the NomCom provides complete immunity against selection for the IAB or IESG during that year. People who volunteer should be sure they can the afford the time, several hours per week for the next 4-5 months. The task basically involves the following activities: - Reading candidate's statements - Participating in a weekly 2 hour conference call. - Attending the IETF meetings held during the selection process. - Doing several interviews. - Speaking to IETF participants about the candidates, the job requirements or the process. All NomCom deliberations and supporting information that relates to specific nominees, candidates, and confirmed candidates are confidential. The NomCom members will be exposed to confidential information as a result of their deliberations, their interactions with those they consult, and from those who provide requested supporting information. All members are expected to handle this information in a manner consistent with its sensitivity. To qualify as a volunteer, a person needs to have attended 2 out of the last 3 IETF meetings. Anyone who meets this requirement is invited to volunteer by emailing your name, telephone number(s), and email address to aboba@internaut.com no later than September 3, 2000. Please put "NOMCOM VOLUNTEER" in the subject line. Once the list closes, I'll provide the list to the IETF secretariat for them to verify the eligibility of the each of the volunteers (e.g. has attended at least 2 of the last 3 IETFs). I will also ask them to publish the list prior to verification for volunteers to confirm that I actually got their email volunteering. We will then run the selection process and announce the results the week of September 11, 2000. Ten (10) NomCom voting members will be chosen from the pool of volunteers according to the procedure described by Donald Eastlake in RFC 2777, "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection". The source of randomness will be based on the shares traded number of 12 stocks selected by the NomCom chair. The official shares traded numbers (denoted in 000s) will be drawn from the September 8, 2000 Wall Street Journal which reports the sales figures from the previous day - September 7, 2000. If trading in any of the stocks is suspended, then the shares traded will be assumed to be 0. Please volunteer. Please convince your friends to volunteer. Thank you, Bernard Aboba <aboba@internaut.com> STOCKS USED IN THE NOMCOM SELECTION PROCESS: eBay, Inc. (EBAY) Merill Lynch & Company (DJM) Digex, Inc. (DIGX) Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (DRYR) Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) Target Corp. (TGT) Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) Norsk Hydro AS (NHY) Colgate Palmolive Company (CL) Maxtor Corp (MXTR) Home Depot, Inc. (HD) Boise Cascade Corp (BCC)