1. Summary
draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis defines the selection, confirmation, and recall
process for IETF NomCom appointments. As component of the IASA2 process,
changes to this process are required for three main reasons: to support NomCom
appointment of IETF LLC Board members in place of the prior IAOC appointment
process; to replace previous guidance about selecting IETF Trust members from
the IAOC with a new, independent process; and to reflect the renaming of the
previous IETF Executive Director position to the Managing Director of the IETF
Secretariat.
As such, this document obsoletes RFC7437. It also obsoletes RFC8318, which gave
guidance for NomCom process surrounding the now-defunct IAOC.
2. Review and Consensus
For the most part, this document steers close to RFC7437, introducing no
changes except where necessary to reflect shifts in the IETF administrative
process resulting from the IASA2 restructuring. It has had sufficient comment
in the working group, including multiple reviews with resulting revisions. The
WG supports the advancement of this document as a necessary part of the IASA2
transition.
3. Intellectual Property
This document is not a protocol specification and it contains no technical
solutions that might require a disclosure.
4. Other Points
RFC3710 is listed as a normative reference (and thus a downref); this probably
could be moved to an Informational reference. Alternatively, we might just
remove the reference to RFC3710 entirely from this document, as it was in
RFC7437 in the first place to refer to the old Executive Director function.
A few miscellaneous non-blocking notes:
The guidance regarding IAB mid-term vacancies in 3.8 is a little unclear: what
exactly is the difference between steps 3 and 4? If there is a difference,
should 4 come before 3?
In Appendix C, tradition 4 mentions that there are no term limits - that isn't
true of LLC Directors per struct 4.10.
Also, nits:
Last paragraph of Intro - this does not so much "update" IAOC selection, it
abolishes it.
Nit in 3.4 "Section 2. of" should drop the period, and also the link there
points to the wrong place.
Nit in 4.2 last paragraph "the Nomcom operate independently" should be
"Nomcoms"?