Contact info

• Chair: Benno Overeinder mailto:nomcom-chair-2025@ietf.org
• Announcements: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ann/nomcom/
• Nominations: https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2025/nominate/
• To reach the whole NomCom: mailto:nomcom-2025@ietf.org

Voting members

• Magnus Westerlund
• Shengnan Yue
• Mankamana Mishra
• Tianran Zhou
• Angela Rodriguez
• Libin Liu
• Vengada Prasad Govindan
• Joe Mandel
• Peter Yee
• David Schinazi

Non-voting members

• Chair: Benno Overeinder
• Past chair: Dean Bogdanovic
• IAB Liaison: Alvaro Retana
• IESG Liaison: Mike Bishop
• ISOC Board Liaison: Russ Housley
• IETF LLC Board Liaison: George Michaelson
• IETF Trust: Glenn Deen

Advisors and support

• Tools: Robert Sparks and Jennifer Richards
• Secretariat: Liz Flynn and Cindy Morgan

Original set of positions to be filled

• IETF LLC Board (three-year term): 1 position

  • Mirjam Kuehne (willing to continue)

• IETF Trust (three-year term): 1 position

  • Glenn Deen (not seeking to continue)

• IAB (two-year term): 6 positions

  • Qin Wu (willing to continue)
  • Tommy Pauly (not seeking to continue)
  • Mirja Kuehlewind (willing to continue)
  • Cullen Jennings (willing to continue)
  • Matthew Bocci (willing to continue)
  • Jason Livingood (willing to continue) (started with a 1-year term)

• IESG (two-year term): 7 positions

  • IETF Chair / GEN AD

    • Roman Danyliw (willing to continue)

  • Applications and Real Time (ART) AD

    • Orie Steele (not seeking to continue)

  • Internet (INT) AD

    • Erik Kline (not seeking to continue)

  • Operations and Management (OPS) AD

    • Mahesh Jethanandani (willing to continue)

  • Routing (RTG) AD

    • Gunter Van de Velde (willing to continue)

  • Security (SEC) AD

    • Paul Wouters (willing to continue)

  • Web and Internet Transport (WIT) AD

    • Gorry Fairhurst (willing to continue) (started with a 1-year term)

The NomCom is tasked with completing this selection before IETF 125 starts in 2026-03-14.

Timeline

NomCom selection phase:

• 2025-05-08 - Call for volunteers
• 2025-06-23 - Publish seeds
• 2025-06-30 - Volunteer cutoff
• 2025-07-01 - Publish list of volunteers
• 2025-07-08 - Publish final list of volunteers
• 2025-07-10 - Seeds available, select and announce selection

Nomination phase:

• 2025-08-01 - Call for nominations
• 2025-10-13 - Deadline for accepting nominations
• 2025-10-14 - Nominees slates finalized, call for community feedback
• 2025-10-20 - Virtual interviews commence
• 2025-11-02 - In person interviews, deliberations start
• 2025-11-05 - End of community feedback period
• 2025-12-05 - Selections sent for confirmation
• 2025-01-26 to 2026-03-06 - Confirmation with selected candidates, notification of other nominees, announcement
• 2026-03-14 - Confirmed candidates seated during IETF 125

NomCom Work phase:

• 2025-08-01 - Call for nominees; publish desired expertise
• 2025-09-22 - Agree on questionnaires and sent to nominees
• 2025-10-14 - Nominees slates finalized; call for community feedback
• 2025-10-27 - Questionnaires due
• 2025-10-20 - Virtual interviews commence
• 2025-11-05 - Community feedback period ends
• 2025-11-02 - In person interviews at IETF 124

Candidates phase:

• 2025-11-07 - Deliberations commence
• 2025-12-05 - Candidates sent to confirming bodies
• 2026-03-14 - Confirmed candidates take their positions during IETF 125 (at various times during the week)