IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees
RFC 7437
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(January 2015; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 8713
Was draft-kucherawy-rfc3777bis (individual in gen area)
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Author | Murray Kucherawy | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | Barry Leiba | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2014-10-21) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7437 (Best Current Practice) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Kucherawy, Ed. Request for Comments: 7437 January 2015 BCP: 10 Obsoletes: 3777, 5078, 5633, 5680, 6859 Category: Best Current Practice ISSN: 2070-1721 IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees Abstract The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG, and some members of the IAOC, are selected, confirmed, and recalled is specified in this document. This document is a self-consistent, organized compilation of the process as it was known at the time of publication of RFC 3777, with various updates since that version was published. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7437. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kucherawy Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 7437 NomCom January 2015 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Completion Due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Nominating Committee Principal Functions . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Positions To Be Reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.4. Term Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5. Mid-term Vacancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.6. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.7. Advice and Consent Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.8. Sitting Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.9. Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Nominating Committee Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.1. Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.2. Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.3. Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.4. Chair Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.5. Chair Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.6. Temporary Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.7. Liaisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.8. Liaison Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.9. Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.10. Past Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.11. Voting Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.12. Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.13. Open Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.14. Volunteer Qualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.15. Not Qualified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.16. Selection Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.17. Announcement of Selection Results . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4.18. Committee Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5. Nominating Committee Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.1. Discretion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.2. Selection Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.3. Confirmation Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.4. Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.5. Voting Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.6. Voting Quorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.7. Voting Member Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Show full document text