NomCom Chair -- 16 October 2000 -- IETF Announce
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Call for nominations

Now that the NomCom has been selected, we are
opening the call for nominations. This includes
a request for comments regarding the past
performance of incumbents, which will be considered
during the deliberations of the nominating committee.  

Members of the community are encouraged to 
nominate candidates for any of the positions 
which are up for re-filling: 

IESG Terms ending in March, 2001: 

Fred Baker              IETF Chair
Scott Bradner           Transport
Randy Bush              Operations & Management
Patrik Faltstrom        Applications
Thomas Narten           Internet
Dave Oran               Routing
Jeff Schiller           Security

IAB Terms ending in March, 2001: 

Harald Alvestrand 
Ran Atkinson
Rob Austein
Steve Deering
Tony Hain 
Geoff Huston

Members of the community are encouraged to contact the
nomcom to nominate someone for any of these positions, 
or to provide input relating to potential candidates. 
Self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for
nominations is midnight Monday, December 16, 2000. 
Early input is desirable so that candidates may be 
interviewed during IETF 49. 

The members of the NomCom can be contacted individually  at
the addresses below or collectively at nomcom@ietf.org.  
Additionally, the members of the NomCom will be identified 
at the IETF by a marker (as yet undetermined) on their name 
tags.  People are encouraged to take advantage of the 
opportunity to talk to the members of the NomCom about 
nominations and other issues related to the IAB and IESG 
membership. 

The 2000 Nominations Committee

Phil Roberts qa3445@email.mot.com
Stuart Cheshire cheshire@apple.com
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
Bill Woodcock woody@zocalo.net
Hadriel Kaplan hadriel@nortelnetworks.com
Alain Durand alain.durand@eng.sun.com
Vijay Srinivasan vijay.srinivasan@cosinecom.com
Hal Sandick hsandick@nortelnetworks.com
David Robinson david.robinson@ebay.sun.com
David Allan dallan@nortelnetworks.com

Non-voting members:
Bernard Aboba aboba@internaut.com (Chair)
Avri Doria avri@nortelnetworks.com (Past Chair)
Leslie Daigle leslie@thinkingcat.com (IAB liason)
Allison Mankin mankin@isi.edu (IESG liason)

The role of non-voting members (from RFC 2727)

The nominations committee comprises at least a non-voting 
Chair, 10 voting volunteers, and 3 non-voting liaisons.
The sitting IAB and IESG members each appoint a non-voting
liaison to the nominating committee from their current
membership who are not sitting in an open position.
The Chair of the prior year's nominating committee also 
serves as a non-voting liaison.