Network Working Group O. Kolkman Internet-Draft NLnet Labs Intended status: BCP R. Housley Expires: October 1, 2011 Virgil Security, LLC March 30, 2011 Ex officio membership to the IASA draft-kolkman-iasa-ex-officio-membership-00 Abstract This memo allows I* chairs to delegate the responsibilities under their ex officio membership to the IAOC to somebody else. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on October 1, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect Kolkman & Housley Expires October 1, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Ex officio IASA membership March 2011 to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. 1. Introduction [RFC4071]appoints the IETF chair, the IAB chair, and the ISOC President/CEO as ex officio voting members to the IAOC and the IETF Trust[RFC4371]. Allowing flexibility in this appointment model allows the burden on these leadership position to be reduced which makes them more attractive for potential candidates. 2. IAOC and Trust Membership modification The IETF chair, the IAB chair, and the ISOC President/CEO may delegate their responsibilities to other persons. The delegations by the IETF chair and the IAB chair need to be confirmed by the IESG and IAB respectively. The terms of delegation is for a longer term for instance aligned with the IESG and IAB appointment cycles (roughly anual). 3. Security Considerations There are no security considerations. 4. IANA Considerations [TO BE REMOVED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION AS RFC] There are no IANA considerations. 5. Acknowledgements Earlier variations of this modification of BCP101 were proposed by John Klensin, who acknowledged Spencer Dawkins and Joel Halpern for their suggestions. 6. References 6.1. Normative References [RFC4071] Austein, R. and B. Wijnen, "Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)", BCP 101, RFC 4071, April 2005. [RFC4371] Carpenter, B. and L. Lynch, "BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust", BCP 101, RFC 4371, January 2006. Kolkman & Housley Expires October 1, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Ex officio IASA membership March 2011 6.2. Informative References Appendix A. Document info [This section is to be removed at publication] $Id: draft-ietf-iasa-chair-membership.xml 4 2011-03-28 12:35:20Z olaf $ Authors' Addresses Olaf M. Kolkman NLnet Labs EMail: olaf@nlnetlabs.nl Russel Housley Virgil Security, LLC EMail: housley@virgilsec.com Kolkman & Housley Expires October 1, 2011 [Page 3]