As previously announced, the IAB is planning to select a person to serve on the 
ICANN NOMCOM for a one year term. The following people are candidates for that 
role (in alphabetical order):

    Arbogast Ishemo Fabian
    Stephen Kent
    John Levine
    S Moonesamy
    Russ Mundy
    Mark Townsley
    Samuel Weiler
    Hassan Zaheer

The community is invited to send comments about this selection to the IAB chair 
<iab-chair at iab.org> and the IAB Executive Director <execd at iab.org>. We 
expect to make a decision within the next few weeks.

Thanks in advance,
  Russ Housley
  IAB Chair


On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:36 PM, IAB Chair wrote:

> Please forward to all interested parties.
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> The IAB (on behalf of the IETF) has been asked to supply a member to the 2014 
> ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) by 15 August 2013. We would therefore 
> like to ask the community for volunteers to serve on the ICANN NomCom. If you 
> are interested, please send a short e-mail to iab-chair at iab.org with a 
> copy to execd at iab.org with your motivation and information concerning your 
> familiarity with the IETF and ICANN.  The deadline for volunteering is 19 
> July 2013.
> 
> The IAB will select from the available candidates, taking into account the 
> familiarity with ICANN and the IETF, their roles, and their processes. The 
> selected candidate will serve on the ICANN NomCom on personal title; however, 
> we will be looking for a candidate who has an understanding of the interests 
> of the technical community.
> 
> The ICANN NomCom process itself is governed by the ICANN bylaws; an abstract 
> of the relevant articles can be found at http://nomcom.icann.org/bylaws.htm.  
> In addition, each NomCom determines a number of its own operational 
> procedures, including the role of the NomCom in recruiting and selecting 
> candidates.
> 
> The ICANN Nominating Committee typically meets in person at or around three 
> consecutive ICANN meetings. The first of these meetings, when the 
> committee is formally established, will be held  22-23 November 2013 
> following the Buenos Aires ICANN meeting on 17-21 November. The committee 
> will next attend the "Spring" ICANN meeting, which in 2014 will be in 
> Singapore on 23-27 March 2014. Finally, the committee will meet during and 
> after the "Summer" ICANN meeting in London on 22-26 June 2014 where the final 
> slate of candidates for the ICANN Board, the GNSO, ccNSO,and ALAC will be 
> agreed upon.
> 
> Candidates should be able to join monthly teleconferences (typically at UTC 
> 14:00), with the expectation that these teleconferences will held weekly 
> during the candidate assessment process in May-June.
> 
> NOTE: ICANN does cover travel and hotel costs for a pre-determined number of 
> days at each of the 3 consecutive ICANN meetings.
> 
> For more information about the ICANN NomCom see: http://nomcom.icann.org/.  
> If you are willing to be considered or would like to nominate someone for the 
> position, please send an email to iab-chair at iab.org and execd at iab.org.
> 
> On behalf of the IAB,
>  Russ Housley
>  IAB Chair

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