Internet Engineering Task Force J. Arkko Internet-Draft Ericsson Obsoletes: 4371 (if approved) T. Hardie Intended status: Best Current Practice February 4, 2019 Expires: August 8, 2019 Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-03 Abstract This memo updates the process for selection of trustees for the IETF Trust. Previously, the Internet Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) members also acted as trustees, but the IAOC has been eliminated as part of an update of the structure of the Internet Administrative Support Activity (IASA). This memo specifies that the trustees shall be selected separately. This memo obsoletes RFC 4371. The changes relate only to the selection of trustees. All other aspects of the IETF Trust remain as they are today. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. 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Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. IETF Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Selection of Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Appendix A. Changes from Previous Versions . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Introduction This memo updates the process for selection of trustees for the IETF Trust. Previously, the Internet Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) members also acted as trustees, but the IAOC has been eliminated as part of an update of the structure of the Internet Administrative Support Activity (IASA). This memo specifies that the trustees shall be selected separately. See Section 3. This memo obsoletes RFC 4371. The changes relate only to the selection of trustees. All other aspects of the IETF Trust remain as they are today. Section 2 copies the definition as it was in RFC 4371, only leaving out the part about trustee selection and adding a reference to the IETF Trust website. For a discussion of why this change is needed and a rationale for these specific changes, see [I-D.ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale]. 2. IETF Trust A Trust ("the IETF Trust") has been formed for the purpose of acquiring, holding, maintaining, and licensing certain existing and future intellectual property and other property used in connection with the administration of the IETF. The Trust was formed by the signatures of its Settlors and initial Trustees. The Settlors, who contributed initial intellectual property to the Trust, were ISOC and Arkko & Hardie Expires August 8, 2019 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Trustees for the IETF Trust February 2019 the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The Beneficiary of the IETF Trust is the IETF as a whole. Further details of the IETF Trust may be found at the IETF Trust's website, . 3. Selection of Trustees This document revises the original Trustee selection procedures defined in [RFC4071] and [RFC4371], to eliminate the requirement that trustees be drawn from the members of the IAOC. In this newly revised IETF Trust structure, there will be five Trustees. Three shall be appointed by the IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom) and confirmed by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), one shall be appointed by the IESG, and one shall be appointed by the Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees. The appointments by the IESG and ISOC Board of Trustees do not require confirmation. The IETF Trust Chair informs the nominating committee of the Trustee positions to be reviewed. The IETF Trust will provide a summary of the expertise desired of the Trustee candidates to each appointing body. A change to the Trust Agreement is required to put this change into effect, and this document requests that the current Trustees make this change at the earliest convenient time and no later than the end of the 104th IETF meeting in March 2019. The terms of the appointed trustees from IETF NomCom shall be three years. The initial selection shall be one, two, and three year terms in order to initially stagger the terms. The other appointments by the IESG and the ISOC Board of Trustees shall be two year terms, with the initial terms being one and two years, respectively. The goal of the staggered initial terms is to minimize potential Trustee turnover in any single year. To maintain the staggered terms, each appointing body may at its discretion appoint Trustees for shorter terms as needed in exceptional situations, e.g., for mid-term vacancies or when an appointment is not ready by the time of the first IETF of the year. Once the initial trustee selections according to the procedures in this document are complete, and at each subsequent annual meeting of the IETF Trust once new trustees are seated, the trustees shall elect by a majority vote of the IETF Trust one trustee to serve as IETF Trust Chair. Arkko & Hardie Expires August 8, 2019 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Trustees for the IETF Trust February 2019 The processes regarding NomCom appointments and recalls of Trustees for the IETF Trust follow those described in [I-D.ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis]. For the appointments by the IESG, the IESG is expected to run an open selection process and to consider the necessary skill set and conflicts of interest as part of that process. 4. Security Considerations This memo has no security implications for the Internet. 5. IANA Considerations This memo requests no action from IANA. 6. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank members of the earlier IASA 2.0 design team who were Brian Haberman, Eric Rescorla, Jari Arkko, Jason Livingood, Joe Hall, and Leslie Daigle. The authors would also like to thank Alissa Cooper, Andrew Sullivan, Brian Carpenter, Lucy Lynch, and John Levine for interesting discussions in this problem space. The authors would also like to thank Russ Housley, Bob Hinden, Scott Mansfield, Alexey Melnikov, Suresh Krishnan, Mirja Kuhlewind, Ben Campbell, Spencer Dawkins, Martin Vigoreux, Benjamin Kaduk, and Adrian Farrel for careful review. Finally, the authors would like to thank the authors of [RFC4371], as the text from that RFC remains in this document. 7. References 7.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis] 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", draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis-05 (work in progress), January 2019. [RFC4071] Austein, R., Ed. and B. Wijnen, Ed., "Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)", BCP 101, RFC 4071, DOI 10.17487/RFC4071, April 2005, . [RFC4371] Carpenter, B., Ed. and L. Lynch, Ed., "BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust", BCP 101, RFC 4371, DOI 10.17487/RFC4371, January 2006, . Arkko & Hardie Expires August 8, 2019 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Trustees for the IETF Trust February 2019 7.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale] Arkko, J., "Discussion of the IASA 2.0 Changes as They Relate to the IETF Trust", draft-ietf-iasa2-trust- rationale-03 (work in progress), October 2018. Appendix A. Changes from Previous Versions RFC Editor: Please remove this section upon publication. The -03pre1b version replaced updates of RFCs 4071 and 4371 with obsoletion of RFC 4371, and updated the reference to RFC 7437 to its newer bis version. It also copied the one remaining paragraph from RFC 4371 to this document. The version draft-itef-iasa2-trust-update-02.txt made some editorial corrections, as well as clarifying that no confirmation is needed in the cases other than the nomcom appointment, specified how IETF Trust chair is chosen, and required that an open process be used by the IESG for the selections. The version draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-01.txt has taken into account last call comments. The changes are: 1) Clarification of the role of the IETF Trust Chair to indicate which trustee positions are up for selection, similar to how RFC 7437 requires the IETF Executive Director to do it. 2) The addition of empty security and IANA consideration sections. 3) The clarification of the staggering rules for NomCom selections. 4) Updated text regarding the application of rules from RFC 7437. 5) Update draft title to be correct in terms of specifying a process rather than the actual persons. 6) Update the text regarding desirable expertise to use the same language as in RFC 7437 instead of the "list of desired qualifications". The version draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-00.txt corrected the desired document status to BCP, and made several editorial and language updates. This version also updated the wording for the request for the current trustees to adopt this change, from "earliest convenience" to "earliest convenient time". The version draft-arkko-iasa2-trust-update-00.txt was the initial version. Authors' Addresses Arkko & Hardie Expires August 8, 2019 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Trustees for the IETF Trust February 2019 Jari Arkko Ericsson Kauniainen 02700 Finland Email: jari.arkko@piuha.net Ted Hardie Email: ted.ietf@gmail.com Arkko & Hardie Expires August 8, 2019 [Page 6]