This is the second call for volunteers to participate in the 2005 IETF Nominations Committee (NomCom), the committee that will select this year's nominees for the IAB and the IESG. Details about the Nominations Committee and its operation can be found in RFC 3777.

To date, I've received 43 offers to participate in NomCom 05. This represents only 5% of the 849 individuals who are eligible to participate. Success of the IETF depends on your participation! If you haven't already volunteered, please do so by e-mailing your name, telephone number(s), and e-mail address to rdroms-nomcom@cisco.com no later than noon in Boston on September 30, 2005. Please put "NOMCOM VOLUNTEER" in the subject line.

I have e-mailed acknowledgments to those from whom I have already received offers to participate in NomCom 05. If you think you've already responded, but did not receive an acknowledgment, please let me know.

The NomCom is the IETF's way of choosing its leadership. Typically, half of the positions on the IAB, half of the positions on the IESG and one IAOC position are filled by the NomCom each year. It is possible that the NomCom will have to fill more or fewer slots due to the creation or elimination of positions, resignations, transfers, etc.

IESG positions that will be reviewed by this NomCom are:

Applications Area

Scott Hollenbeck

Internet Area

Margaret Wasserman

Operations and Management Area

Bert Wijnen

Routing Area

Alex Zinin

Security Area

Sam Hartman

Transport Area

Allison Mankin

Additionally, the IESG is considering the creation of a Real Time Infrastructure Applications area, whose exact charter and scope is being defined. If this area is created, then two additional AD positions must be filled, one for one year and one for two years. The IESG commits to deciding about this by the end of September.

IAB members whose positions will be reviewed by this NomCom are:

Leslie Daigle

Patrik Faltstrom

Bob Hinden

Eric Rescorla

Pete Resnick

Jonathan Rosenberg

The IAOC member whose term will expire is:

Ed Juskevicius

For the NomCom to work as it should, the pool from which the volunteers are chosen should be as large as possible. The more people who volunteer, the better chance we have of choosing a random yet representative cross section of the IETF population. Volunteering for the NomCom is also a good way of serving the IETF community, so please volunteer.

NomCom members are barred from nomination during the year they serve, even if they later resign. Therefore, being selected for the NomCom provides complete immunity against selection for the IAB, IESG or IAOC during that year.

People who volunteer should be sure they can the afford the time to meet the responsibilities of participating on the NomCom, which will amount to several hours per week over the next 4 to 5 months. The task involves the following activities:

• Reading candidates' statements
• Participating in a weekly 2 hour conference call.
• Attending the IETF meetings held during the selection process.
• Conducting interviews with candidates.
• Speaking to IETF participants about the candidates, the job requirements, or the process.

All NomCom deliberations and supporting information that relates to specific nominees, candidates, and confirmed candidates are confidential. The NomCom members will be exposed to confidential information as a result of their deliberations, their interactions with those they consult during the selection process, and from those who provide requested supporting information. All members are expected to handle this information in a manner consistent with its sensitivity.

To qualify as a volunteer, a person needs to have attended 3 out of the last 5 IETF meetings. Anyone who meets this requirement is invited to volunteer by e-mailing your name, telephone number(s), and e-mail address to rdroms-nomcom@cisco.com no later than noon in Boston on September 30, 2005. Please put "NOMCOM VOLUNTEER" in the subject line.

Once the list of volunteers closes it will be announced and published at:

http://www.ietf.org/nomcom/index.html

I will run the selection process against the list of volunteers and announce the results on October 7, 2005. Ten NomCom voting members will be chosen from the pool of volunteers according to the procedure described by Donald Eastlake in RFC 2777, "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection". The source of randomness will be based on the shares-traded number of 12 stocks selected by the NomCom chair.

The official shares-traded numbers (denoted in 000s) will be drawn from the October 7, 2005 Wall Street Journal which reports the sales figures from the previous trading day - October 6, 2005. If trading in any of the stocks is suspended, then the shares traded will be assumed to be 0.

The NomCom voting members will start their term on October 14, 2005, after the IETF community has had a chance to review the random selection process.

Please volunteer.

Thank you,

Ralph Droms rdroms@cisco.com

STOCKS USED IN THE NOMCOM SELECTION PROCESS:

Exxon Mobil (XON)

Time Warner (TWX)

Wal-Mart (WMT)

Hewlett Packard (HPQ)

General Motors (GM)

Nortel (NT)

Honeywell (HON)

Verizon (VZ)

Dow Chemical (DOW)

Citigroup (C)

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Gilette (G)