It has been a couple years since the Nominating Committee RFC has been updated. The current version is RFC 2727 or BCP 10, depending on your favorite designation.
I have just submitted a draft revision to internet-drafts. I expect the announcement will be forthcoming in the next few days. The plan is not to create a formal working group, per se, for the document. Instead a mailing list has been created to review and prepare the document for publication. This list will be used to discuss a few additional issues that have not yet been incorporated into the proposed revision. If you are interesting in the "IAB and IESG Selection Process", also known as the 'Operation of the Nominating Committee", please do join the mailing list and participate in its review. You may wish to do that now in anticipation of the draft's announcement. The mailing list for the discussion of this draft is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the list send a message with the single word "subscribe" in the body to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The draft as submitted incorporates a half dozen changes I judged to be clarifications or suggestions consistent with the intent of the process and procedures. These changes are indicated in a section entitled "Changes from RFC2727" in the document. I have included the text of that section below for your review. Of course these changes can be further clarified or removed after community review. In addition, the mailing list will be used to discuss the following suggestions that have been proposed but not yet incorporated: should there be a liaison from ISOC how do we handle disputes regarding the selection nominating committee members should NOMCOM announcements be sent to all IETF mailing lists or just the IETF general and announcements lists as it is done now there are a number of clarifications to the as yet unexercised recall process that have been proposed for consideration Here are the changes currently incorporated: 1. A definition for "sitting member" was added. 2. An information retention policy was added requiring the Chair to submit a collection of all information related to the operation of and execution of the responsibilities of the nominating committee to the Internet Society President for long-term storage. Previous Chairs have done this so the addition is just a formalization of existing practice. 3. A timeframe for the appointment of the Chair was added. The timeframe could always be inferred from the text but to avoid confusion it is now explicitly stated. 4. Some explicit guidance was added regarding the timeframe for volunteering to serve on the nominating committee. 5. Some explicit guidance was added to the process of selecting the nominating committee members. Among other things it must be possible to iterate the selection method more than just 10 times to ensure that unavailable or ineligible volunteers can be replaced. 6. It is now explicitly stated that no person may serve on both the IESG and the IAB concurrently. Please join us on the mailing list indicated to discuss these issues. Thanks, Jim -- James M. Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>