NomCom Chair -- 04 February 1997 -- IETF-Announce ------------------------------------------------- IETF Nominations Committee Report The IETF Nominations Committee has now completed its work in selecting candidates for the positions in the IESG and IAB whose term expires at the April 1997 IETF meeting. The candidates have been selected following extensive consultation regarding the consensus view of the IETF community's perceptions of the qualifications appropriate for these positions, and the Nominations Committee has adhered strictly to the process described in the document RFC 2027 throughout its schedule. The Nominations Committee's activities commenced in mid-October 1996, so this concluding report is being passed to the IETF somewhat earlier than has been the case in previous years. We were aware that in the course of the committee's work many highly qualified individuals, and their employers, were willing to make an open commitment of the individuals' time and energies to levels in excess of 1 - 2 working days per week for a two year period. We felt that we could not request the many individuals involved to hold open this generous commitment for more than a few weeks, so we have worked diligently to bring the process through to this stage within a timely fashion, to ensure that we did not abuse their generosity any further than was strictly necessary. Four IESG positions are to be filled by the IETF Nominations process in 1997. These positions are Transport, Internet, Applications and Operations and Management. The following individuals have been selected as candidates for these positions, and their candidature confirmed by the IAB: Applications Co-Area Director Harald T. Alvestrand Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no Harald is the incumbent in this position and the committee has noted a very high level of confidence in Harald's carriage of this position within the IETF. Harald is employed at UNINETT, the Norwegian academic network, in the position of "services manager". This entails oversight over UNINETT application-level services, and initiation and monitoring of UNINETT's development activities in the applications area. Harald is also actively in TERENA activities in addition to his IETF activities. He high level of acitivity in the IETF includes autorship of 7 curently active drafts and 7 RFCs. UNINETT management has committed to continue to support Harald in his IESG role. Internet Co-Area Director Thomas Narten narten@raleigh.ibm.com Thomas brings a high level of technical depth and breadth to the Area and to the IESG. Thomas has a very high level of understanding of the Internet Area, and also has a strong working knowledge of routing end to end transport and security. The committee is of the view that this will be of assistance on the IESG in understanding how the activities of various WGs impact each other. Thomas currently is employed by IBM, TCP/IP Technologies, and prior to this was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Duke University. He has authored RFCs 1970 and 1971 as well as numerous research publications. Operations and Management Co-Area Director John Curran jcurran@bbnplanet.com John is a well respected IETF member, currently Co-chair of the Uniform Resource Name WG (APP), a participant in the Application Area Directorate, a past participant in the Ops Area Directorate and the IPNG Directorate. He was also the 1995 IETF NomCom Chair. He is the Chief Technical Officer, BBN Planet, and brings a wealth of direct operational experience to the IETF. He has a thorough understanding of the operational and management requirements posed by complex large scale networks, and is highly respected wthin the Internet operations community. Transport Co-Area Director Scott Bradner sob@harvard.edu Scott is also a well respected IETF member, and has served as the Operations Area Director for the past 5 years. He has authored an extensive number of RFCs. Scott has been selected as the candidate for the Transport Area following much consultation within the IETF community over the status of this Area and its direction. The Nominations Committee did consider very carefully the merits of continuing with a purely transport-oriented direction, with an admitted high component of activity which borders of research activity, and weighed this against the introduction of operational expertise into the Area at the Area Director level. The committee formed the distinct impression from their consultation that the latter course of action, of the nomination of an indivdual with extensive operational expertise, was necessary at this point in time, although some potential difficulties in undertaking this were noted. Scott is perhaps the most experienced Area Director the IETF has, and certainly acknowledged to be a very capable Area manager as well as a contributor to the IETF, and there is a very high level of confidence in Scott to work with the Transport Co-Area Director (who was appointed relatively recently) and the Transport Area members to provide a level of leadership to the Area's activites which will assist in harmonising Internet operational considerations with technology development. Six IAB positions are to be filled by the IETF Nominations process in 1997. The following individuals have been selected by the IETF Nominations Committee as candidates for these positions, and the candidature confirmed by the ISOC Board of Trustees: Steve Deering deering@parc.xerox.com For the past five years, Steve has been employed as a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC, engaged in research on advanced internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet. Steve has recently joined the Gigabit Switching Group at Cisco, where he is continuing his involvement in internet protocol research and contributing to the design of very high speed routers. Steve has co-chaired a significant number of IETF Working Groups in areas of Ipv6, routing, multicast and mobile IP during his extensive involvement with IETF activities. Tony Hain tonyhain@microsoft.com Tony Hain has had extensive operational experience as the Associate Manager at ESNET in the period 1990 - 1995. Tony is currently employed at Microsoft in the position of Internet Architect MSN. Tony has been an active member of various Internet Operational groups, including the FEPG, the IEPG and NANOG, and has also had extensive involvement at the IETF, focussing on feedback about the operational impact of design suggestions and early implementation testing. In this role Tony is currently co-chairing the IPv6 transition tools working group. Erik Huizer Erik.Huizer@sec.nl Erik Huizer is Managing Director of the SURFnet Expertise Center. Erik has perviously worked as a network development project manager with SURFnet bv, the company that operates the Academic and Research network in The Netherlands. He manages various national and international projects on the Internet, security, E-mail, Information services and Directory services. Erik has been a member of the RARE (now Terena) Technical Committee for three years. He is an active IETF member and has chaired and acted as editor for a number of IETF Working Groups. He has also been the Area Director for the Applications Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force, and as such a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1990-1995. He is currently a member of the Internet Architecture Board. Cyndi Jung cmj@3Com.com Cyndi is the protocol architect and software development manager for 3Com's router products. Cyndi has had extensive experience in routing architectures from the perspective of vendor implementation for many years. She has been involved in the IETF routing working groups and also in the IPv6 activity domain, most recently working on technical aspects of IPv6 transition. Robert Moskowitz rgm3@chrysler.com Robert is employed by the Chrysler Corporation in Internet related activities, including email architecture, Intranet developments and EDI over TCP, and is well aware of the corporate requirements with respect to the directions of Internet technologies. He is also a member of the US Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee (appointed April 96 for a 3 year term), a body which advises the US federal research networks on policy issues. He is the co-chair of the FNCAC security committee. Robert is currently a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and has been active in the IETF, particularly within the Applications Directorate, for many years. Charlie Perkins charliep@watson.ibm.com Charlie works at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Charlie has had extensive involvement in the development of various Internet technologies, and is principally known for his efforts within the MobileIP Working Group. He has also been involved with Dynamic Host Configuration, IPV6 and Service Location protocol development work. He is also serving on the US National Research Council committee and a US Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) group It has been a challenging task for the committee, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the committee members for their diligence in this work, and also to thank all other members of the IETF who participated in the 1997 Nominations process in various capacities. Thanks, Geoff Huston for IETF Nominations Committee: Guy Almes Jim Bound Matt Crawford Phill Gross Bob Hinden Dorian Kim Bill Manning Marshall Rose Mike StJohns Glen Zorn Geoff Huston (chair) Joyce Reynolds (IESG liaison) Radia Perlman (IAB liaison) Christian Huitema (ISOC liaison)