On 10/30/06, Raouf Boutaba <rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca > wrote:

Dear Otto and all,
Last week, during the WG6.6 meeting at MANWEEK 2006 in Dublin, I have
announced that my term as the WG6.6 chair is ending mid 2007. In order to
make the transition smooth, I suggest that we identify the new chair before
TC6 2007.1 meeting, so I can pass on to him/her the needed information. With
respect to the process as described in your email, I feel that it will be
more appropriate if the WG6.6 members can nominate and/or elect who they
feel can be a good chair of the working group. The TC6 committee can approve
or confirm the candidate chair. I can ask the WG6.6 members for volunteers
and if there are volunteers, TC6 can then look at the candidates and pursue
whoever is considered most appropriate for WG6.6 and TC6.
Let me know,
Raouf

-----Original Message-----
From: ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
[mailto: ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE] On Behalf Of Otto Spaniol
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:30 AM
To: ifip-tc6@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: [ifip-tc6] Renewal of WG 6.x chairmanships

Dear all,

at the occasion of our recent meeting in Paris we have renewed the
chairmanships
of WG 6.2, 6.8, and 6.10.
To my opinion in all cases with very convincing candidates
(even if the procedure was not completely according to the
IFIP statutes and bbylaws, e.g. concerning the designation of vice-
chairpersons;
see below).

Checking the dates since when other chairpersons of WG 6.x working groups
have been "in power" I found that by mid of 2007 (or even earlier)
three other chairpersons will have reached the end of their 2x3 = 6
years period.

This concerns the following WG's and chairpersons:

WG 6.4:  Arun Iyengar
WG 6.6:  Raouf Boutaba
WG 6.7:  Dominique Gaiti.

In contrast to our previous habits, the WG chairman is *not* to be
elected by the
WG members but has to be recommended by the TC.
This is also valid for the WG members (see below)!

Excerpt from the Statutes and Bylaws of IFIP (section 4.3.7):

--------
The members of a Working Group are appointed by the Chairman of the
corresponding Technical Committee, with the approval of that Committee.

Membership is not restricted to those who belong to an IFIP Member
Society. The Chairman of the Working Group is appointed by the TC
Chairman upon the recommendation of the Technical Committee. The
Chairman may designate a Vice-Chairman and a Secretary with the approval
of the Working Group.

The term of office of Working Group Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen shall be
three years and may be renewed once only. The term of office for
Secretaries is three years which may be renewed without any limitation.
The appointment of Working Group Chairmen may be terminated by the TC
Chairman upon recommendation of the Technical Committee.
--------

Thus, in order to follow these procedures more correctly, I invite you to
nominate candidates (even outside of the actual WG members but such
candidates
would then be automatically accepted as WG members if they receive the
recommendation of the committee) for the WG's well before our next
meeting in Atlanta
(May 2007).

I (or the newly elected chairman of TC6) would then invite the candidates
to attend meeting 2007/1 personally or to submit a written concept of
their ideas
(if they cannot attend the meeting for whatsoever reason).

The Technical Committee would then come to a conclusion at the meeting
itself
or postpone the decision by an electronic voting (if the decision cannot
bereached at the meeting itself).

The newly designed chairpersons should take over by July 1, 2007.

Hereby I invite you
- to comment about the proposed procedure
- to make nominations for new chairpersons.

Best regards
Otto

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