On February 1, 2012, the NomCom announced the appointment of members of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for two-year terms beginning at IETF 83. The IAB welcomes new members Jari Arkko and Marc Blanchet, along with returning members Bernard Aboba, Ross Callon, Spencer Dawkins and Hannes Tschofenig. Outgoing members include Olaf Kolkman and Andrei Robachevsky.

The IAB has approved publication of “Report from the ‘Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet’ Workshop, 25th March 2011, Prague” as an Informational RFC within the IAB stream.

The IAB has approved publication of “Independent Submission Editor Model” as an Informational RFC within the IAB stream.

The IAB has responded to the ITU-T TSAG liaison on “Update of IETF and ITU-T Collaboration Guidelines”. The IAB response is available here.

The IAB has published RFC 6462 “Report from the Internet Privacy Workshop”.

The Internet Architecture Board is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Nevil Brownlee as the Independent Submission Editor (ISE). The contract negotiated by the IAOC is for a term of three years.

The IAB has nominated Olaf Kolkman as a representative of the ISOC/IETF to the EU Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation, with Hannes Tschofenig as his alternate.

The IAB has appointed Mary Barnes as Executive Director, succeeding Dow Street who has served in the role of IAB Executive Director since March, 2008. The IAB would like to extend its thanks to Dow for his service to the Internet community.

The IAB has established an Emergency Services Initiative, lead by Hannes Tschofenig.

The IAB has posted the minutes and presentations from the IETF 82 Technical Plenary. This includes the IRTF and IAB Reports as well as a series of presentations on the Internet of Things.