IETF Trust Nominations are open!
The Ask!
The 2018-19 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is seeking nominations for the IETF
Trust positions (three open slots) from now until November 28, 2018.
NOTE: This is the call for nominations for the IETF Trust, the previous calls
for LLC Board Member and IETF Chair, IESG, and IAB are following their own
time frames.
Background Information:
The purpose of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Trust is to
acquire, hold, maintain, and license certain existing and future
intellectual property and other property used in connection with the
administration of the IETF https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4371.txt [RFC4371].
For more information see the "Discussion of the IASA 2.0 Changes as They
Relate to the IETF Trust https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale-00
and Update to the Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-00.
Desired Experience:
The Trust is mostly a quiet organization, and being a trustee generally
involves little work beyond quarterly online meetings. Trustees ideally
should be:
* Familiar with copyright and trademark law.
* Familiar with the RFC publication process as described in RFC 6635
and related documents.
* Familiar with the Trust's copyright licenses and with RFCs 5377 and
5378.
* Willing to serve multiple terms as a trustee to provide continuity of
oversight.
Mechanics of Nomination:
Nominations may be made by selecting the Nominate link at the top of the
NomCom 2018 home page, or by visiting the following URL:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2018/nominate/
Note: Nominations made using the web tool require an ietf.org datatracker
account. You can create a datatracker ietf.org account if you don't have one
already by visiting the following URL:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/accounts/create/
If you are unable to use the web form, nominations may instead be made by
email to nomcom-18 at ietf dot org. If using email, please include the word
"Nominate" in the Subject and indicate in the email who is being nominated,
their email address (to confirm acceptance of the nomination), and the
position for which you are making the nomination. If you are nominating
someone other than yourself, please tell us if we may tell the nominee that
you were the one who made the nomination. If you wish to nominate someone via
email for more than one position, please use separate emails to do so.
Self-nomination is welcome!
Willing nominees will be asked to fill out a questionnaire specific to the
position for which they are nominated. The questionnaires will have a
submission deadline of December 5, 2018.
NomCom 2018-19 will follow the policy for "Open Disclosure of Willing
Nominees" described in BCP 10/RFC 7437. As stated in RFC 7437: "The list of
nominees willing to be considered for positions under review in the current
NomCom cycle is not confidential". Willing nominees for each position will be
listed in a publicly accessible way, e.g., anyone with a datatracker account
may access the lists. Additionally, the nomination form asks if we may share
your own name with the nominee. In all other ways, the confidentiality
requirements of BCP 10 remain in effect. All feedback and all NomCom
deliberations will remain confidential and will not be disclosed.
There is a field on the form you can mark in order to allow the NomCom to
tell the nominee that you were the one who made the nomination. This defaults
to “no” - so if you don't mark the field we won’t tell.
In order to ensure time to collect sufficient community feedback about each
of the willing nominees, nominations must be received by the NomCom on or
before November 28, 2018.
Action!
Please submit your nominations as early as possible for the sake of your
nominees.
Please be resourceful in identifying possible candidates for these
positions.
More information is available by visiting the NomCom homepage:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2018/
Please send suggestions and feedback to nomcom-18 at ietf dot org.
Thank you for your help in identifying qualified nominees!
regards,
-scott.
Scott Mansfield
scott dot mansfield at ericsson dot com
nomcom-chair-2018 at ietf dot org