Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update
draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update
Internet Engineering Task Force J. Arkko
Internet-Draft Ericsson
Obsoletes: 4371 (if approved) T. Hardie
Intended status: Best Current Practice February 4, 2019
Expires: August 8, 2019
Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust
draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-03
Abstract
This memo updates the process for selection of trustees for the IETF
Trust. Previously, the Internet Administrative Oversight Committee
(IAOC) members also acted as trustees, but the IAOC has been
eliminated as part of an update of the structure of the Internet
Administrative Support Activity (IASA). This memo specifies that the
trustees shall be selected separately.
This memo obsoletes RFC 4371. The changes relate only to the
selection of trustees. All other aspects of the IETF Trust remain as
they are today.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. IETF Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Selection of Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Appendix A. Changes from Previous Versions . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Introduction
This memo updates the process for selection of trustees for the IETF
Trust. Previously, the Internet Administrative Oversight Committee
(IAOC) members also acted as trustees, but the IAOC has been
eliminated as part of an update of the structure of the Internet
Administrative Support Activity (IASA). This memo specifies that the
trustees shall be selected separately. See Section 3.
This memo obsoletes RFC 4371. The changes relate only to the
selection of trustees. All other aspects of the IETF Trust remain as
they are today. Section 2 copies the definition as it was in RFC
4371, only leaving out the part about trustee selection and adding a
reference to the IETF Trust website.
For a discussion of why this change is needed and a rationale for
these specific changes, see [I-D.ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale].
2. IETF Trust
A Trust ("the IETF Trust") has been formed for the purpose of
acquiring, holding, maintaining, and licensing certain existing and
future intellectual property and other property used in connection
with the administration of the IETF. The Trust was formed by the
signatures of its Settlors and initial Trustees. The Settlors, who
contributed initial intellectual property to the Trust, were ISOC and
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the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The Beneficiary
of the IETF Trust is the IETF as a whole.
Further details of the IETF Trust may be found at the IETF Trust's
website, <https://trustee.ietf.org/>.
3. Selection of Trustees
This document revises the original Trustee selection procedures
defined in [RFC4071] and [RFC4371], to eliminate the requirement that
trustees be drawn from the members of the IAOC.
In this newly revised IETF Trust structure, there will be five
Trustees. Three shall be appointed by the IETF Nominating Committee
(NomCom) and confirmed by the Internet Engineering Steering Group
(IESG), one shall be appointed by the IESG, and one shall be
appointed by the Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees. The
appointments by the IESG and ISOC Board of Trustees do not require
confirmation.
The IETF Trust Chair informs the nominating committee of the Trustee
positions to be reviewed. The IETF Trust will provide a summary of
the expertise desired of the Trustee candidates to each appointing
body.
A change to the Trust Agreement is required to put this change into
effect, and this document requests that the current Trustees make
this change at the earliest convenient time and no later than the end
of the 104th IETF meeting in March 2019.
The terms of the appointed trustees from IETF NomCom shall be three
years. The initial selection shall be one, two, and three year terms
in order to initially stagger the terms. The other appointments by
the IESG and the ISOC Board of Trustees shall be two year terms, with
the initial terms being one and two years, respectively. The goal of
the staggered initial terms is to minimize potential Trustee turnover
in any single year. To maintain the staggered terms, each appointing
body may at its discretion appoint Trustees for shorter terms as
needed in exceptional situations, e.g., for mid-term vacancies or
when an appointment is not ready by the time of the first IETF of the
year.
Once the initial trustee selections according to the procedures in
this document are complete, and at each subsequent annual meeting of
the IETF Trust once new trustees are seated, the trustees shall elect
by a majority vote of the IETF Trust one trustee to serve as IETF
Trust Chair.
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The processes regarding NomCom appointments and recalls of Trustees
for the IETF Trust follow those described in
[I-D.ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis]. For the appointments by the IESG, the
IESG is expected to run an open selection process and to consider the
necessary skill set and conflicts of interest as part of that
process.
4. Security Considerations
This memo has no security implications for the Internet.
5. IANA Considerations
This memo requests no action from IANA.
6. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank members of the earlier IASA 2.0
design team who were Brian Haberman, Eric Rescorla, Jari Arkko, Jason
Livingood, Joe Hall, and Leslie Daigle. The authors would also like
to thank Alissa Cooper, Andrew Sullivan, Brian Carpenter, Lucy Lynch,
and John Levine for interesting discussions in this problem space.
The authors would also like to thank Russ Housley, Bob Hinden, Scott
Mansfield, Alexey Melnikov, Suresh Krishnan, Mirja Kuhlewind, Ben
Campbell, Spencer Dawkins, Martin Vigoreux, Benjamin Kaduk, and
Adrian Farrel for careful review. Finally, the authors would like to
thank the authors of [RFC4371], as the text from that RFC remains in
this document.
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis]
Kucherawy, M., Hinden, R., and J. Livingood, "IAB, IESG,
IETF Trust and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and
Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and
Recall Committees", draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis-05 (work
in progress), January 2019.
[RFC4071] Austein, R., Ed. and B. Wijnen, Ed., "Structure of the
IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)", BCP 101,
RFC 4071, DOI 10.17487/RFC4071, April 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4071>.
[RFC4371] Carpenter, B., Ed. and L. Lynch, Ed., "BCP 101 Update for
IPR Trust", BCP 101, RFC 4371, DOI 10.17487/RFC4371,
January 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4371>.
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7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale]
Arkko, J., "Discussion of the IASA 2.0 Changes as They
Relate to the IETF Trust", draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-
rationale-03 (work in progress), October 2018.
Appendix A. Changes from Previous Versions
RFC Editor: Please remove this section upon publication.
The -03pre1b version replaced updates of RFCs 4071 and 4371 with
obsoletion of RFC 4371, and updated the reference to RFC 7437 to its
newer bis version. It also copied the one remaining paragraph from
RFC 4371 to this document.
The version draft-itef-iasa2-trust-update-02.txt made some editorial
corrections, as well as clarifying that no confirmation is needed in
the cases other than the nomcom appointment, specified how IETF Trust
chair is chosen, and required that an open process be used by the
IESG for the selections.
The version draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-01.txt has taken into
account last call comments. The changes are: 1) Clarification of the
role of the IETF Trust Chair to indicate which trustee positions are
up for selection, similar to how RFC 7437 requires the IETF Executive
Director to do it. 2) The addition of empty security and IANA
consideration sections. 3) The clarification of the staggering rules
for NomCom selections. 4) Updated text regarding the application of
rules from RFC 7437. 5) Update draft title to be correct in terms of
specifying a process rather than the actual persons. 6) Update the
text regarding desirable expertise to use the same language as in RFC
7437 instead of the "list of desired qualifications".
The version draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update-00.txt corrected the
desired document status to BCP, and made several editorial and
language updates. This version also updated the wording for the
request for the current trustees to adopt this change, from "earliest
convenience" to "earliest convenient time".
The version draft-arkko-iasa2-trust-update-00.txt was the initial
version.
Authors' Addresses
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Jari Arkko
Ericsson
Kauniainen 02700
Finland
Email: jari.arkko@piuha.net
Ted Hardie
Email: ted.ietf@gmail.com
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