First, I am again happy to note that there were no appeals received by the IAB at the time of writing. In our last report, the IAB noted that it was in the process of selecting a new liaison to the ICANN Board. Harald Alvestrand was selected by the portion of the IAB not recused, […]
The IAB announced a call for nominations and volunteers for serving on the RSOC on 16 May 2018. For details on the position and further links, please see the previous message. The call completed, and 12 people accepted nominations. As specified in the announcement, the IAB is now providing that list to the community. If […]
The IAB has reappointed Jim Reid to serve an additional one-year term on the ICANN Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC). The IAB thanks Jim for his willingness to serve the community in this capacity.
The IAB is pleased to announce that they have selected Harald Alvestrand to succeed Jonne Soininen as the IETF Liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors. Harald’s term will begin with the ICANN Annual General Meeting in October. The IAB would like to thank Harald and all of the candidates for their willingness to serve […]
On behalf of the IETF, the IAB appoints three representatives to the Community Coordination Group (CCG), which provides advice and guidance to the IETF Trust in matters related to the IANA trademarks and the IANA domain names. The process for appointing these representatives is outlined in RFC 8090. The IAB will appoint one person to […]
On 3 April 2018, the IAB posted an updated statement on the RPKI.
Dear colleagues, As is tradition, here is the IAB report to the community about our activities, submitted so that you can prepare topics you might want to discuss during the upcoming open mic time. Of course, if you have issues you want to discuss by email, feel free to send your comments to architecture-discuss@iab.org (our […]
On 15 March 2018, the IAB posted a statement on Identifiers and Unicode.
The IAB is tasked to nominate a liaison to represent the IETF on the ICANN Board of Directors. This is a call for nominations for that liaison. The nomination period will close on 7 March 2018. The liaison normally serves a two-year renewable term; the IAB plans to name the new liaison by the May […]
The IAB has selected Tim Wicinski to serve a two-year term on the ICANN Technical Liaison Group (TLG). The IAB thanks all of the candidates who were willing to serve. This was a difficult decision with many strong candidates. The IAB would also like to extend special thanks Warren Kumari for his service on the […]