NomCom Chair -- 27 August 1997 -- IETF-Announce ----------------------------------------------- Third and last call for volunteers - Nominations Committee. *****LAST CALL!!!!!!! LAST CALL!!!!!!!!***** *****List closes 1600 PDT 29 August 1997**** [Steve - please reflect onto the IETF-Announce list] [This document has some changes from prior announcements, note the change in the list of stocks for the selection process, also includes list of people with expiring terms. - Mike] Hi - As you may or may not know I've been tapped to head this years IAB/IESG nominating committee. This is the second call for volunteers to participate as members of that committee. If you would like to volunteer, please send me email (to stjohns@corp.home.net) with the phrase "NOMCOM VOLUNTEER" (yes - all caps) in your subject line indicating your desire to participate. Please include your snail mail and phone numbers in the body of the message. To be eligible to serve on the NOMCOM, you must have attended 2 of the last 3 IETFs. Please make sure you can spend the time required to serve. Although there won't be any face to face meetings except for the December IETF, you will have to spend about 2 hours a week on the phone during the 12 active weeks of the nominations process (starting around the December IETF) in teleconferences with the entire nominations committee. You'll also be assigned various candidates to interview as part of the nominations process. Third and last call for volunteers will be next Wednesday, the 27th of August. Cutoff for accepting volunteers will be as of 1600 PDT on the 29th of August - specifically, they have to be in my email box at that time. Once I've got the complete list of volunteers, I'll post it and also ask that the Secretariat verify eligibility. The 10 members will be selected by lot based on the sales volume of 11 stocks as of the NASDAQ market close on 19 September as reported in the San Jose Mercury News on 20 September 1997. The procedure is as follows: 1) The Secretariat will provide the final list of eligibles listed in alphabetical order and numbered from 0 sequentially increasing and will mail this to the IETF and IETF-Announce list on or before the 17th of September. 2) The sales volume figure for the NASDAQ most active stock on the 19th of Sept will be used to provide an initial offset into the list. The 10,000s and 1,000s digit from the volume figure will be used to generate a "random" number from 00 to 99 (e.g. if the sales figure is 345,009,234 shares, the number is 09). The actual offset into the list is calculated as volnumber**5 mod the length of the list. So if the volume number is 9, the length of the list is 47, the offset would be 17. 3) Each stock in turn will then be used to select a nomcom member from the list by using the same procedure of extracting the 10,000 and 1000 digits, raising them to the 5th power, adding that to the current position number and then taking that mod the length of the list. So if the first of the listed stocks sales figure was 45,923,213 and the length of the list were 47 as above, then the volume number would be 23, and the final position on the list would be (17 + 23**5) mod 47 or 39. The person with the number 39 (remembering that the list is numbered from 0 this is actually the 40th person) would become the first member. 4) Step three is repeated continuing from the current position on the list until all 10 members are selected. 5) In the event that there is a duplicate selection,simply continue down the list sequentially until you find a person who has not been selected. Continue the process from that position on the list. 6) If the most active stock is also one of the stocks I list for the selection, it will be used twice, once for the initial offset, and once for selecting a member. 7) The figures as reported in the SJMercury News are the official figures. In the event of a disagreement between the numbers in the SJMercury and any other publication, the SJMercury figures will be considered correct. 8) If any stock is not listed in the 20 September 1997 edition of the paper, OR HAS LESS THAN 100,000 in sales for the day, it will be replaced in order by one of the alternate stocks IN ITS PLACE - e.g. the other stocks on the list will retain their specific positions, rather than having the stock deleted and having the alternate stock added to the end of the list. 9) The list of stocks is as follows: Member 1) Apple Computer (reported as AppleC) 2) TCI Incorporated - Ticker: TCOMA (Replaces @Home) 3) Cisco Systems (reported as Cisco) 4) Cyber Cash (reported as CybrCsh) 5) Excite (reported as Excite) 6) Intel (reported as Intel) 7) MCI (reported as MCI) 8) Microsoft (reported as Microsft) 9) Netcom (reported as Netcom) 10) Netscape (reported as Netscpe) Alternate 1) Quantum 2) 3Com 3) Yahoo Expiring Terms: I believe these are the folks who's terms expire in March '98 In the IESG: Fred Baker IETF Chair Jeff Burgan Internet Joel Halpern Routing Keith Moore Applications Mike O'Dell Operations & Management Joyce K. Reynolds User Services Allyn Romanow Transport Jeff Schiller Security In the IAB: Brian Carpenter Steve Bellovin Jon Crowcroft Robert Elz John Klensin Radia Perlman