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NomCom 2026
2026-2027 Nominating Committee (NomCom)
Contact info
- Chair: Mankamana Mishra mailto:nomcom-chair-2026@ietf.org
- Announcements: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ann/nomcom/
- Nominations: https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2026/nominate/
- To reach the whole NomCom: mailto:nomcom-2026@ietf.org
Voting members
Non-voting members
- Chair: Mankamana Mishra
- Past chair: Benno Overeinder
- IAB Liaison: Matthew Bocci
- IESG Liaison: Gunter van de Velde
- ISOC Board Liaison: Russ Housley
- IETF Trust: Wendy Seltzer
Advisors and support
- Tools: Robert Sparks and Jennifer Richards
- Secretariat: Liz Flynn and Morgan Condie
Original set of positions to be filled
IETF IPMC Board, Director
- Jon Peterson
IAB (two-year term): 6 positions
- Dhruv Dhody, Huawei (willing to continue)
- Jana Iyengar, Netflix (not seeking to continue)
- Suresh Krishnan, Cisco (willing to continue)
- Warren Kumari, Google (willing to continue)
- Mark Nottingham, Cloudflare
- Alvaro Retana, Futurewei
IESG (two-year term): 7 positions
- Applications and Real Time (ART) AD
- Andy Newton (seeking to continue)
- Internet (INT) AD
- Éric Vyncke (not seeking to continue)
- Operations and Management (OPS) AD
- Mohamed Boucadair
- Routing (RTG) AD
- Jim Guichard
- Ketan Talaulikar
- Security (SEC) AD
- Deb Cooley (not seeking to continue)
- Web and Internet Transport (WIT) AD
- Mike Bishop (seeking to continue)
Timeline
NomCom selection phase:
- 2026-05-08 - Call for volunteers
- 2026-06-23 - Publish seeds
- 2026-06-30 - Volunteer cutoff
- 2026-07-01 - Publish list of volunteers
- 2026-07-08 - Publish final list of volunteers
- 2026-07-10 - Seeds available, select and announce selection
Nomination phase:
- 2026-08-01 - Call for nominations
- 2026-10-13 - Deadline for accepting nominations
- 2026-10-14 - Nominees slates finalized, call for community feedback
- 2026-10-20 - Virtual interviews commence
- 2026-11-02 - In person interviews, deliberations start
- 2026-11-05 - End of community feedback period
- 2026-12-05 - Selections sent for confirmation
- 2026-01-26 to 2026-03-06 - Confirmation with selected candidates, notification of other nominees, announcement
- 2027-03-14 - Confirmed candidates seated during IETF
NomCom Work phase:
- 2026-08-01 - Call for nominees; publish desired expertise
- 2026-09-22 - Agree on questionnaires and sent to nominees
- 2026-10-14 - Nominees slates finalized; call for community feedback
- 2026-10-27 - Questionnaires due
- 2026-10-20 - Virtual interviews commence
- 2026-11-05 - Community feedback period ends
- 2026-11-02 - In person interviews at IETF
Candidates phase:
- 2026-11-07 - Deliberations commence
- 2026-12-05 - Candidates sent to confirming bodies
- 2027-03-14 - Confirmed candidates take their positions during IETF 125 (at various times during the week)