In 2021, the IAB is responsible for selecting two individuals to serve 3-year terms on the ISOC Board of Trustees. The procedure is described in RFC 3677. The candidates who accepted nominations are:

• Donald Eastlake
• Brian Haberman
• John C Klensin
• Barry Leiba
• Gabriel Montenegro
• Jon Peterson
• Jonathan Rosenberg
• Niels ten Oever
• Samuel Weiler

The IAB is requesting feedback on these candidates by Wednesday, 2021-02-03 at 2359 UTC. Please send your response to execd@iab.org. If you would like your feedback to be anonymized, please indicate such in your response. The IAB expects to finalize its selection on or before 2021-02-24.

The IESG will confirm the candidates by 2021-03-24 and the appointees will begin serving as new board of trustees members at the ISOC Annual General meeting in July 2021.

The Internet Architecture Board is pleased to announce the reappointment of Warren Kumari to a two-year term on the ICANN Technical Liaison Group.

The IAB extends its sincere thanks to everyone in the community who provided feedback in this process, and to Warren for his willingness to continue to serve in this role.

The Internet Society (ISOC) provides organizational and financial support for the IETF. As part of the arrangements between ISOC and the IETF, the IETF is called upon to name 4 Trustees to its Board (BoT), with staggered 3-year terms.

This year, the IAB will select two people for a terms beginning in mid-2021 and ending in mid-2024. The incumbents are Gonzalo Camarillo and John Levine, who have both served two consecutive terms in this role and therefore cannot seek another term due to term limits. The IAB would like to thank Gonzalo and John for their six years of service.

A description of the IAB’s process for selecting the Trustee each year can be found in RFC 3677, with this year’s timeline as follows:

• Tuesday, November 10, 2020: Open nomination period
• Tuesday, January 5, 2021: Close of the nomination period
• Wednesday, January 6, 2021 – Wednesday, February 3, 2021: Community feedback period
• No later than February 24, 2021: IAB selection delivered to IESG for confirmation
• No later than March 24, 2021: Delivery of final confirmed selection to the ISOC Elections Committee for announcement with the rest of the new ISOC BoT slate.

Nominations

Nominations (including self-nominations) should be sent to the IAB Executive Administrative Manager at <execd@iab.org>. Please include e-mail contact details with the nomination. Continue reading →

On behalf of the IETF, the IAB names two technical experts to the ICANN Technical Liaison Group (TLG).

The current IETF-selected members of the TLG are Warren Kumari (term ends 2021) and Petr Špaček (term ends 2022). Warren has indicated that he is willing to continue in this role another term. The IAB is now soliciting input from the community on this incumbent.

The ICANN Bylaws (Section 13.2) ask the IAB, ITU-T, ETSI, and W3C to each provide two technical experts. The technical experts are expected to be “familiar with the technical standards issues that are relevant to ICANN’s activities. These 8 experts shall be available as necessary to determine, through an exchange of e-mail messages, where to direct a technical question from ICANN when ICANN does not ask a specific TLG organization directly.” All TLG participants are also members of ICANN’s Technical Experts Group which confers with the ICANN Board at ICANN meetings.

More details can be found in the ICANN bylaws.

Please send your remarks in confidence to iab-chair@iab.org and execd@iab.org.

The IAB would appreciate receiving comments by 23:59 UTC on Friday, 2020-11-20, as the IAB will begin the next steps in the oversight process shortly after IETF 109.