The IAB has issued a call for review of “Report from the IAB workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT)” prior to potential approval as an IAB stream RFC.
The document is available for inspection here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-itat-report/
The Call for Review will last until 16 May 2014. Please send comments to iab@iab.org.
The IAB has issued a call for review of “Report from the IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication” prior to potential approval as an IAB stream RFC.
The document is available for inspection here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-cc-workshop-report/
The Call for Review will last until 14 May 2014. Please send comments to iab@iab.org.
The IAB announced a call for nominations and volunteers for serving on the RSOC on 26 March 2014. For details on the position and further links, please see the previous message linked here.
The call completed, and 4 people accepted nominations. With thanks for their willingness to serve, the list of willing nominees is:
As specified in the announcement, the IAB is now providing that list to the community. If you have opinions, information, or perspectives on the individuals for the RSOC which you believe would help the IAB select the RSOC membership, please provide comments to iab-chair at iab.org and execd at iab.org. Please provide feedback before 23 April 2014.
Today, the IAB sent comments to the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the matter of the draft NISTIR 7977 (NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process). In the statement, the IAB supports transparency and openness, encouraging NIST to make improvements for not only Federal Information Processing Standards, but also Recommendations and Special Publications.
The Draft NISTIR 7977 is available from the NIST website: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/nistir-7977/nistir_7977_draft.pdf
The IAB statement is available from the IAB website: http://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2014/04/IAB-NIST7977-20140407.pdf
On behalf of the IAB,
Russ Housley
IAB Chair
As specified in “RFC Editor Model (Version 2)” (RFC 6635), the IAB is responsible for appointing the members of the RFC Series Oversight Committee (RSOC). Bernard Aboba has stepped down from his role on the RSOC. The IAB thanks him for his service.
The IAB is now looking for a community member to appoint to the RSOC. This message is a call for nominations for that position. If you are interested, or there is someone you know of who would make a good member, please nominate yourself or that person.
The leaders of the Internet technical organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet infrastructure (IETF, IAB, RIRs, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC, and W3C), welcome the US Government’s announcement of the suggested changes related to the IANA functions contract.
The IAB is responsible for selecting an individual to serve a 3 year term on the ISOC Board of Trustees. The procedure is described in RFC3677. The candidates who accepted their nominations are:
We solicit feedback on these candidates by March 31, 2014. Please send your response to iab-chair@iab.org or 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 April 10, 2014.
The IESG will confirm the candidate by May 25, 2014 and the appointee will begin serving as the new board of trustee member in June.
The IAB has issued a call for review of “RFC Style Guide” prior to potential approval as an IAB stream RFC.
The document is available for inspection here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-styleguide/
The Call for Review will last until 2 April 2014.
Normally, we ask for comments to go to the IAB mail list, but for this document, it is more appropriate to use the RFC Interest list. Please send comments to rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org.
The IAB has issued a call for review of “Reflections On Host Firewalls” prior to potential approval as an IAB stream RFC.
The document is available for inspection here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-host-firewalls/
The Call for Review will last until 2 April 2014.
Please send comments to iab@iab.org.
On 13 February 2014, the NomCom announced the selection of the IAB slate whose terms will start at IETF 89 in March 2014:
The IAB thanks outgoing members Bernard Aboba, Ross Callon, and Hannes Tschofenig for their years of service to the community on the IAB. The IAB also thanks Alissa Cooper, who is resigning her position on the IAB to join the IESG as RAI Area Director.