NomCom -- 6 April 1003 -- IETF-Announce --------------------------------------- nomination letter for new IAB members For the information of IETF members. Here is a copy of the nominations committee's recommendations for IAB members that was sent to the ISOC trustees. ============================================================================= Dear ISOC Trustees: Attached is a list of the six nominees for the Internet Activities Board, along with a brief vita for each candidate. These candidates were selected through a lengthy evaluation process that started in late January. The committee formally and informally solicited suggestions and applications from throughout the Internet community. As candidates were proposed for various positions, the committee determined if it felt the candidate was suitable for any position in IESG or IAB (not just those for which the candidate was nominated). If candidate was felt to be suitable for one or more positions, the committee took the step of confirming the candidate would serve if asked. The committee then deliberated over the resulting lists of candidates. In the case of the IAB seats, the committee held a series of teleconferences (over eight hours in the week of March 22nd alone) during which the merits of each candidate and the special talents, strengths, and attributes she or he would bring to the IAB were carefully considered. In cases where the candidate was not well-known to all committee members, a member of the committee was typically asked to present the candidate's qualifications. During late stages of discussion, after broad discussions including the liaisons, the committee met in executive session to make final decisions, with only the voting members of the committee plus the non-voting chair (no liaisons) to avoid even a hint of undue influence. (The committee would like to emphasize that it has valued the participation of the liaisons from the ISOC, IAB and IETF.) Even in the late stages of discussion, the committee solicited and considered new nominees as the committee determined that candidates with particularly desirable skills or experience were not reflected in the candidate pool. All decisions were made in these highly interactive and often animated teleconferences rather than via electronic mail. These decisions were made with as many committee members present and participating as possible. At no time were decisions made with fewer than five of the committee members (plus the non-voting chair) participating, i.e., no decisions were made with more than one active member missing. All decisions were ratified with all of the six active committee members participating (plus the chair). There were only six active participants because one individual selected for committee membership was unable to devote the time required to serve. This was especially unfortunate because even modest participation would have added to the cultural and geographic diversity of the committee membership, hopefully improving our ability to identify potential European nominees and might have increased our success rate when we attempted to recruit those we selected. The committee opted to continue with the membership as originally selected, in the hopes that his time pressures would ease and that he would be able to engage in the process. Furthermore, the alternates selected at the outset would not have contributed to the committee's diversity. Although he remained on our mail distribution list, much to the regret of the committee, neither electronic mail nor live telephone conversations were able to engage his active participation. We have made an effort to ensure that the nominees reflect the broad spectrum of talents, responsibilities, and nationalities in the larger Internet community. Choosing from among a diverse set of candidates was a tasking job and required us to make a number of difficult tradeoffs and choices as we considered the various candidates. We believe this slate represents the best joint effort of the committee. If you have any questions or concerns about the process or our selections, we encourage you to communicate them to me via e-mail to the address below and I will forward them to the Nominations Committee. We do welcome your questions or further directions. For the IAB/IETF Nominations Committee, Jeff Case, Chair case@cs.utk.edu ***************************************************************************** NOMINEES FOR THE INTERNET ACTIVITIES BOARD Elise Gerich is a computer scientist MERIT, where she manages the routing database and operations for the NSFnet backbone, and through leadership in the Intercontinental Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG), FEPG, and NAEPG has worked to extend routing coherence throughout the world. Elise is co-chair of the IEPG, and is currently working on backbone upgrades for routing and addressing. Jun Murai directs the WIDE network at Keio University. Previously he was responsible for operating JUNET. He has been active in developing networking connectivity in Japan since 1984, and IP networking in Japan and the Pacific region since 1986. Yakov Rekhter has been with IBM since 1984 and is currently a Research Staff Member and a manager of a High-Performance Networking group at the T.J. Watson Research Center. He is one of the leading architects, as well as the major software developer, of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. His contributions to the NSFNET project include areas of routing, network management, and network topology design. He is a noted expert in routing, and a leading designer of BGP and IDRP. He is a long time member of the IETF, the author of several RFCs, and a member of the ANSI X3S3.3 committee. John Romkey is a principal at ELF Communications, a startup firm producing applications to make the Internet easier to use. He formerly served as a principal at Epilogue Technologies and FTP Software, Incorporated where he applied his theoretical and practical network management experience. Previously, he was a member of a research group at MIT under Dave Clark. His particular area of expertise is in extending Internet technology to the desktop, principally through his contributions to the design and implementation of software which forms the core of many freely available and commercial implementations of TCP/IP for MSDOS/PCDOS-based personal computers. He also designed the packet driver specification. Major Michael St. Johns is a Program Manager at Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). He holds the MS degree in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He previously was assigned to the Air Force Data Services Center, Defense Communications Agency as program manager for the Defense Data Network managing the NIC and BBN network development. He was one of the initial members of the IETF and is the author of a number of security-related RFCs. W. David Sincoskie is the Executive Director, Computer Networking Research, at Bellcore, and is responsible for leading Bellcore's participation in the Aurora gigabit testbed. His particular area of expertise is in the design and simulation of broadband packet switches. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.