Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee Eligibility
RFC 8989
Document | Type |
RFC - Experimental
(February 2021; No errata)
Was draft-carpenter-eligibility-expand (individual)
|
|
---|---|---|---|
Authors | Brian Carpenter , Stephen Farrell | ||
Last updated | 2021-02-05 | ||
Stream | Internent Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html xml pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Bron Gondwana | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2020-12-07) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8989 (Experimental) | |
Action Holders |
(None)
|
||
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Alissa Cooper | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - No Actions Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Carpenter Request for Comments: 8989 Univ. of Auckland Category: Experimental S. Farrell ISSN: 2070-1721 Trinity College Dublin February 2021 Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee Eligibility Abstract This document defines a process experiment under RFC 3933 that temporarily updates the criteria for qualifying volunteers to participate in the IETF Nominating Committee. It therefore also updates the criteria for qualifying signatories to a community recall petition. The purpose is to make the criteria more flexible in view of increasing remote participation in the IETF and a reduction in face-to-face meetings. The experiment is of fixed duration and will apply to one, or at most two, consecutive Nominating Committee cycles, starting in 2021. This document temporarily varies the rules in RFC 8713. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for examination, experimental implementation, and evaluation. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. 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). Not all documents approved by the IESG are candidates for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8989. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2021 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 (https://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. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Term and Evaluation of the Experiment 3. Goals 4. Criteria 4.1. Clarifying Detail 5. Omitted Criteria 6. IANA Considerations 7. Security Considerations 8. Normative References Appendix A. Available Data Acknowledgements Authors' Addresses 1. Introduction According to [RFC8713], the IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom) is populated from a pool of volunteers with a specified record of attendance at IETF plenary meetings, which were assumed to be face- to-face meetings when that document was approved. In view of the cancellation of the IETF 107, 108, 109, and 110 face-to-face meetings; the risk of future cancellations; the probability of less- frequent face-to-face meetings in the future in support of sustainability; and a general increase in remote participation, this document defines a process experiment [RFC3933] of fixed duration (described in Section 2) to use modified and additional criteria to qualify volunteers. During this experiment, the eligibility criteria for signing recall petitions -- which [RFC8713] defines to be the same as those for NomCom eligibility -- are consequently also modified as described in this document. This experiment has no other effect on the recall process. 2. Term and Evaluation of the Experiment The cancellation of the in-person IETF 107 through 110 meetings means that the current criteria are in any case seriously perturbed for at least 2 years. The experiment therefore needs to start as soon as possible. However, the experiment did not apply to the selection of the 2020-2021 NomCom, which was performed according to [RFC8788]. The experiment will initially cover the IETF NomCom cycle that begins in 2021. As soon as the entire 2021-2022 NomCom is seated, the IESG must consult the 2021-2022 NomCom Chair and the 2020-2021 NomCom Chair (who will maintain NomCom confidentiality) and publish a report on the results of the experiment. Points to be considered are whether the experiment has produced a sufficiently large and diverse pool of individuals, whether enough of those individuals have volunteered to produce a representative NomCom with good knowledge of the IETF, and whether all the goals in Section 3 have been met. If possible, a comparison with results from the previous procedureShow full document text