Network Working Group B. Carpenter
Internet-Draft Univ. of Auckland
Updates: 8713 (if approved) S. Farrell
Intended status: Best Current Practice Trinity College Dublin
Expires: September 19, 2020 March 18, 2020

Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee Eligibility
draft-carpenter-eligibility-expand-01

Abstract

This document updates the criteria for qualifying volunteers to participate in the IETF Nominating Committee. It therefore also updates the criteria for qualifying signatories to a community recall petition. The purpose is to make the criteria more flexible in view of increasing remote participation in the IETF and a probable decline in face-to-face meetings. This document updates RFC8713.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

According to [RFC8713], the IETF Nominating Committee is populated from a pool of volunteers with a specified record of attendance at IETF plenary face-to-face meetings. In view of the unexpected cancellation of the IETF 107 meeting, the risk of future cancellations, the probability of less frequent meetings in future in support of sustainability, and a general increase in remote participation, this document defines additional criteria to qualify volunteers in future.

Also according to [RFC8713], the qualification for signing a community petition for the recall of certain IETF office-holders is that same as for the Nominating Committee. This document does not change that, but see Section 4.

2. Goals

The goals of the new criteria are as follows:

3. Criteria

There will be several alternative paths to qualification, replacing the single criterion in section 4.14 of [RFC8713]. Any one of the paths is sufficient, unless the person is otherwise disqualified under section 4.15 of [RFC8713]:

Certain criteria were rejected as not truly indicating effective IETF participation, or not being objectively and mechanically measurable. These included authorship of individual Internet-Drafts, prolific email, and the simple fact of remote meeting attendance; not to mention any qualitative evaluation of an individual's contributions.

4. Possible Future Work

5. IANA Considerations

This document makes no request of IANA.

6. Security Considerations

This document should not affect the security of the Internet.

7. Acknowledgements

TBD

8. Normative References

[RFC8713] Kucherawy, M., Hinden, R. and J. Livingood, "IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall Committees", BCP 10, RFC 8713, DOI 10.17487/RFC8713, February 2020.

Authors' Addresses

Brian E. Carpenter The University of Auckland School of Computer Science PB 92019 Auckland, 1142 New Zealand EMail: brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com
Stephen Farrell Trinity College Dublin College Green Dublin, Ireland EMail: stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie