The IAB is pleased to appoint Ted Hardie and Geoff Huston to the ICANN Root Server System Governance Working Group (GWG). The IAB thanks everyone who put their name forward as a candidate for this position. This was a difficult decision with many strong candidates.
In response to the recent series of public meetings on the evolution of the RSE role, the IAB recently circulated a proposed charter for a program on evolving the RFC Editor model. As that charter notes, the intent is for this program to be modeled on an IETF working group, using its mailing list to […]
On 12 January 2020, the NomCom the announced the selection of the IAB slate whose terms will start at IETF 107 in March 2020. The selected candidates for the IAB are: Ben Campbell Cullen Jennings Mirja Kühlewind Jared Mauch Tommy Pauly Jiankang Yao 姚健康 The IAB thanks outgoing members Ted Hardie, Christian Huitema, Erik Nordmark, […]
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: Amelia Andersdotter Hago Dafalla Russ Housley Pete Resnick Michael Richardson Laura Thomson The IAB is requesting feedback on these candidates by Wednesday, February […]
On 20 December 2019, the IAB re-opened the call for nominations to the ICANN Root Server System Governance Working Group (GWG). The extended nominations period has now closed, and several additional candidates have put their names forward. The full list of candidates who have accepted nominations is: Fred Baker Lyman Chapin Steve Crocker Wes Hardaker […]
On behalf of the IETF, the IAB names two technical experts to the ICANN Technical Liaison Group (TLG). The ICANN Bylaws (Section 13.2) ask the IAB, ITU-T, ETSI, and W3C to each provide two technical experts. The technical experts are expected to be “familiar with the technical standards issues that are relevant to ICANN’s activities. […]
On behalf of the IETF, the IAB has been asked to name two technical experts to the ICANN Root Server System Governance Working Group (GWG). ICANN describes this group as follows: The GWG is the core of the community-driven process to develop a final cooperation and governance model for the Root Server System (RSS). The […]
The Internet Society (ISOC) provides organizational and financial support for the IETF. As part of the arrangements between ISOC and the IETF, the IETF is called upon to name 4 Trustees to its Board (BoT), with staggered 3-year terms. This year, the IAB will select one person for a term beginning in mid-2020 and ending […]
The Internet Architecture Board is pleased to announce the reappointment of Adrian Farrel as the Independent Submissions Editor (ISE). This appointment is for a two-year term beginning on 15 February 2020. The IAB thanks Adrian for his continued willingness to serve the community in this capacity.
As part of its oversight responsibility for the Independent Stream, the IAB is soliciting comments from the community on the performance of the Independent Submissions Editor, Adrian Farrel. The IAB is interested in comments on the last two years of operation of the Independent Stream and Adrian’s activities as ISE. Please send comments to iab-chair@ab.org. […]