If NANOG folks want the IETF to have good operator input, then operationally minded folks need to volunteer for the IETF nominating committee. The NomCom is responsible for nominating IAB and IESG members. Last year's NomCom had a nicely rounded participation from developers, network operators, and corporate users. If you are qualified to be on IETF NomCom, please consider volunteering. There is less than 1 week left, so if you are interested and haven't sent in your email to the special email address yet, please do so now. Speaking just for myself. Ran rja@inet.org

From: tytso@mit.edu To: IETF-Announce: ; Subject: Call for Volunteers: IAB/IETF Nominating Committee (2nd call) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:57:24 -0400 Sender: scoya@cnri.reston.va.us

Many thanks to those members of the IETF community who have volunteered to serve on the IAB/IESG Nominating committee. The list of those people who have volunteered can be found at:

http://thunk.org/tytso/nomcom-volunteers.html

If you believe you have volunteered, but you cannot find your name on this list, please send me e-mail so I can look into it.

If you have not yet volunteered, please consider doing so. In order to be eligible to serve on the Nominating Committee, you must have attended at least 2 of the last 3 IETF's.

The time commitment will range from 3-5 hours a week from November to January, and will consist of weekly teleconferences plus time spent interviewing and reading e-mail from prospective candidates as well as working group chairs and other IETF participants. This is a significant time commitment, but participation by IETF volunteers is critical if we are to select the best leadership for our community. So I encourage all eligible volunteers who feel that they can offer their time and efforts to respond.

To volunteer please send e-mail to the following e-mail address:

nomcom-volunteer@thunk.org

A list of those people who have volunteered and who have been confirmed by the Secretariat as having attended at least two of the last three IETF meetings can be found at:

http://www.thunk.org/tytso/nomcom-volunteers.html

The deadline for volunteering to serve on the Nominating Committee is 5pm EDT, October 29, 2001.

Based on the list of those who have volunteered, we will run the selection process and announce the results the week of October 29, 2001. 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 number of shares traded of 12 stocks selected by the NomCom chair on October 30, 2001.

The official number of shares traded (denoted in 000s) will be drawn from the October 31, 2000 Wall Street Journal which reports the sales figures from the previous day - October 30, 2001. If trading in any stock is suspended, then the number of shares traded will be taken from the first day prior to October 30, 2001 where the number of shares traded in that stock was non-zero.

Thank you,

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu