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+Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          B. Leiba
+Request for Comments: 8788                        FutureWei Technologies
+BCP: 10                                                         May 2020
+Category: Best Current Practice                                         
+ISSN: 2070-1721
+
+
+           Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee
+
+Abstract
+
+   The 2020-2021 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is to be formed between
+   the IETF 107 and IETF 108 meetings, and the issue of eligibility of
+   who can serve on that NomCom needs clarification.  This document
+   provides a one-time interpretation of the eligibility rules that is
+   required for the exceptional situation of the cancellation of the in-
+   person IETF 107 meeting.  This document only affects the seating of
+   the 2020-2021 NomCom and any rules or processes that relate to NomCom
+   eligibility before IETF 108; it does not set a precedent to be
+   applied in the future.
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+   This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.
+
+   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
+   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
+   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
+   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
+   BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
+
+   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
+   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
+   https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8788.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
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+   document authors.  All rights reserved.
+
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+
+Table of Contents
+
+   1.  Introduction
+   2.  Background
+   3.  Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee
+   4.  IANA Considerations
+   5.  Security Considerations
+   6.  References
+     6.1.  Normative References
+     6.2.  Informative References
+   Author's Address
+
+1.  Introduction
+
+   The COVID-19 outbreak, which at the time of this writing was declared
+   a global pandemic [PANDEMIC], has resulted in the cancellation of the
+   in-person IETF 107 meeting [CANCEL107].  This resulted in its
+   conversion to a virtual meeting with a limited agenda and remote
+   participation only [VIRTUAL107].
+
+   The 2020-2021 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is to be formed between
+   the IETF 107 and IETF 108 meetings, and the issue of eligibility of
+   who can serve on that NomCom needs clarification: a one-time
+   interpretation of the eligibility rules is required for this
+   particular exceptional situation.  That interpretation will apply to
+   the seating of that NomCom and to any rules or processes that relate
+   to NomCom eligibility before the scheduled time for IETF 108.
+
+2.  Background
+
+   Section 4.14 of [RFC8713] (BCP 10) includes these requirements for
+   eligibility:
+
+   |  Members of the IETF community must have attended at least three of
+   |  the last five IETF meetings in order to volunteer.
+   |  
+   |  The five meetings are the five most recent meetings that ended
+   |  prior to the date on which the solicitation for NomCom volunteers
+   |  was submitted for distribution to the IETF community.
+
+   On 13 March 2020, a message was posted to the IETF discussion list
+   [SOLICITINPUT] suggesting two possible interpretations and asking for
+   community input that might include suggesting other interpretations.
+   Discussion over the subsequent two weeks centered around three:
+
+   1.  Do not count IETF 107 at all, for the purpose of NomCom
+       eligibility, as BCP 10 clearly refers to in-person meetings only.
+       NomCom eligibility would, therefore, be based on attendance at
+       IETFs 102 through 106.
+
+   2.  Do not have anyone lose eligibility because of IETF 107, but do
+       count someone as having attended 107, for the purpose of NomCom
+       eligibility, if that person attended the IETF 107 virtual meeting
+       (signed the electronic blue sheet).  People could thus gain
+       eligibility from IETF 107, but could not lose eligibility from
+       it, and eligibility would be based on attendance at IETFs 102
+       through 107.
+
+   3.  Count virtual attendance at IETF 107 and consider IETF 107 as one
+       of the last five meetings, so that NomCom eligibility would be
+       based on attendance at IETFs 103 through 107.
+
+   In judging rough consensus, the IESG has considered the arguments and
+   levels of support for and against each option.  The arguments largely
+   involved issues of fairness to newer participants, acceptance of more
+   participants in the volunteer pool, and greatest adherence to the
+   spirit of the rules defined in BCP 10, which is the community-
+   consensus basis we are working from.
+
+   On 25 March 2020, a message was posted to the IETF discussion list
+   [COMMENTDEADLINE] asking for final comments by 30 April 2020.  This
+   documents the outcome of that discussion with the choice of
+   interpretation 1, above.
+
+3.  Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee
+
+   The following text modifies, for the 2020-2021 NomCom cycle only, the
+   first two paragraphs (quoted above) of Section 4.14 of [RFC8713] (BCP
+   10) as follows:
+
+      Members of the IETF community must have attended at least three of
+      the last five in-person IETF meetings in order to volunteer.
+
+      The five meetings are the five most recent in-person meetings that
+      ended prior to the date on which the solicitation for NomCom
+      volunteers was submitted for distribution to the IETF community.
+      Because no IETF 107 in-person meeting was held, for the 2020-2021
+      Nominating Committee, those five meetings are IETFs 102, 103, 104,
+      105, and 106.
+
+   This update is an emergency interpretation of the intent of BCP 10
+   for this current exceptional situation only.  It applies only to the
+   2020-2021 NomCom, which is expected to be seated prior to IETF 108,
+   and to any rules or processes that relate to NomCom eligibility
+   before IETF 108.  It will explicitly not apply to any future NomCom
+   and does not set precedent: an update to BCP 10 will be necessary to
+   address future eligibility, as there will be time for proper
+   community work on such an update (see [ELIGIBILITYDISCUSS]).  That
+   update could change any part of the BCP 10 process, including
+   anything specified in this document.
+
+4.  IANA Considerations
+
+   This document has no IANA actions.
+
+5.  Security Considerations
+
+   This document is purely procedural; there are no related security
+   considerations.
+
+6.  References
+
+6.1.  Normative References
+
+   [RFC8713]  Kucherawy, M., Ed., Hinden, R., Ed., and J. Livingood,
+              Ed., "IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection,
+              Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF
+              Nominating and Recall Committees", BCP 10, RFC 8713,
+              DOI 10.17487/RFC8713, February 2020,
+              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8713>.
+
+6.2.  Informative References
+
+   [CANCEL107]
+              The IESG and the IRTF Chair, "Subject: IETF 107 Vancouver
+              In-Person Meeting Cancelled", message to the IETF
+              announcement list, 10 March 2020,
+              <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/
+              XenAlx4Nw6Jmg69QpXRUOwbzsXY>.
+
+   [COMMENTDEADLINE]
+              The IESG, "Subject: Re: NomCom eligibility & IETF 107",
+              message to the IETF discussion list, 13 March 2020,
+              <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/
+              cc3rdjSTz8Vrzps8Ci6fi-VIDq8/>.
+
+   [ELIGIBILITYDISCUSS]
+              IETF, "Mailing list to discuss revision to IETF
+              eligibility procedures",
+              <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/eligibility-
+              discuss>.
+
+   [PANDEMIC] Adhanom Ghebreyesus, T., "WHO Director-General's opening
+              remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19", March 2020,
+              <https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-
+              general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-
+              19---11-march-2020>.
+
+   [SOLICITINPUT]
+              The IESG, "NomCom eligibility & IETF 107", message to the
+              IETF discussion list, March 2020,
+              <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/
+              uBt8FeKeN4CRl7YTDMoy6m8leS0/>.
+
+   [VIRTUAL107]
+              IETF Secretariat, "Important Information for IETF 107
+              Virtual", message to the IETF announcement list, March
+              2020, <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-
+              announce/cVDlJ4fVJIkfakBysTfsFchERCs/>.
+
+Author's Address
+
+   Barry Leiba
+   FutureWei Technologies
+
+   Phone: +1 914 433 2749
+   Email: barryleiba@computer.org
+   URI:   http://internetmessagingtechnology.org/