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data-block-key="01xqs">IETF liaison managers and liaisons to other organizations or subgroups within organizations are appointed by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).</p><p data-block-key="dgb3k">For more information about the procedures that govern IETF liaisons, please see <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4052">RFC 4052</a> “IAB Liaison Management” and <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4053">RFC 4053</a> (BCP 103) “Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF.”</p><p data-block-key="8fneh">The primary contact on liaison negotiation is the IAB. You can send email to the IAB liaison coordinators at <a href="mailto:liaison-coordination@iab.org">liaison-coordination@iab.org</a>. The current liaison coordinators are <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Suresh%20Krishnan">Suresh Krishnan</a>, <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Mirja%20Kuehlewind">Mirja Kühlewind</a>, and <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Qin%20Wu">Qin Wu</a>.</p></div> <div class="block-heading">When and how are new liaisons established?</div> <div class="block-paragraph"><p data-block-key="vbivl">The IAB is responsible for establishing new formal liaison relationships if conditions warrant appointing a specific person or persons to such a task. Establishing a liaison relationship can provide the framework for ongoing communications to:</p><ul><li data-block-key="2mrh2">Prevent inadvertent duplication of effort, without obstructing either organization from pursuing its own mandate</li><li data-block-key="fqmm6">Provide authoritative information about one organization’s dependence on the other’s work</li></ul><p data-block-key="av2ir">New liaison appointments are rare, since the best way for organizations to work with the IETF is to do so by participating in the relevant working groups, or to have IETF working group members participate directly in the other organization’s structures.</p></div> <div class="block-heading">How are formal liaison statements sent and received?</div> <div class="block-paragraph"><p data-block-key="vbivl">A list of sent and received <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/">liaison statements</a> and their status is available on the IETF Datatracker.</p><p data-block-key="6rodm">If a formal established liaison relationship exists (see table below), the appointed liaison manager is responsible for managing, tracking and ensuring all outgoing liaison statements (sent by the IETF or some group within the IETF) and incoming liaison statements (sent by the other SDO) are processed and handled. Each liaison manager has a corresponding contact point from the other SDO.</p><p data-block-key="3g0rb">If no formal established liaison relationship exists, it is still possible to send formal liaison statements. Please contact <a href="mailto:liaison-coordination@iab.org">liaison-coordination@iab.org</a> before sending any statements for this case.</p><p data-block-key="9nhed">To submit a liaison statement, please reach out to the appropriate liaison manager, or the IAB liaison coordinators. In more detail, this means:</p><ul><li data-block-key="etdhi"><b>Outgoing</b> (sent by the IETF or a group within the IETF)<ul><li data-block-key="cb840">Contact the liaison manager if the organization you want to send the liaison statement to is listed below.</li><li data-block-key="dme0u">If no liaison manager is assigned for the organization, please email the IAB liaison coordinators at <a href="mailto:liaison-coordination@iab.org">liaison-coordination@iab.org</a> instead.</li></ul></li><li data-block-key="52tra"><b>Incoming</b> (sent by another SDO to the IETF or a group within the IETF)<ul><li data-block-key="dc0hg">Contact the person responsible for liaison management in the other SDO. If you don’t know the correct contact, please ask the respective IETF liaison manager below or send an email to <a href="mailto:liaison-coordination@iab.org">liaison-coordination@iab.org</a>.</li><li data-block-key="3jtjp">If you are the person responsible for liaison management in the other SDO and you have not sent liaison statements to the IETF before, please contact <a href="mailto:liaison-coordination@iab.org">liaison-coordination@iab.org</a> for assistance before you send liaison statements.</li></ul></li></ul></div> <div class="block-raw_html"><a id="current"></a></div> <div class="block-heading">Current liaison managers and appointments</div> <div class="block-paragraph"><h2 data-block-key="vbivl">Liaison Managers</h2></div> <div class="block-raw_html"><div class="block-table"> <div class="table-responsive"> <table tabindex="0"> <thead> <tr> <th>SDO </th> <th> IETF Liaison Manager </th> <th>More Info</th> <th>Contact</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> 3GPP </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Charles%20Eckel">Charles Eckel</a> </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3113/">RFC 3113</a></td> <td>3gpp-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Broadband Forum </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/David%20Sinicrope">David Sinicrope</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>bbf-liaison@ietf.org</td> </tr> <tr> <td> CableLabs </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Jason%20Weil">Jason Weil </a></td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4965/">RFC 4965</a></td> <td>cablelabs-liaison@ietf.org</td> </tr> <tr> <td> ECMA TC39 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Matthew%20Miller">Matt Miller</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>ecma-tc39-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> IEEE 802.1 </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Janos%20Farkas">János Farkas</a></td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7241/">RFC 7241</a></td> <td>ieee-8021-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> IEEE-SA </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Russ%20Housley">Russ Housley</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>ieee-sa-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Patrik%20Faltstrom">Patrik Fältström</a> </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3718/">RFC 3718, Section 7</a></td> <td>iso-jtc1-sc2-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Stephan%20Wenger">Stephan Wenger</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>iso-jtc1-sc29-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Warren%20Kumari">Warren Kumari</a> </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3563/">RFC 3563</a> </td> <td>iso-jtc1-sc6-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/TC46 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Peter%20Koch">Peter Koch</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>iso-tc46-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/TC154 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Michael%20Douglass">Michael Douglass</a></td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1767/">Request to add the IETF as an external liaison to ISO/TC154</a></td> <td>iso-tc154-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ISO/TC204 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Alexandre%20Petrescu">Alexandre Petrescu</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>iso-tc204-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ITU-T </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Scott%20Mansfield">Scott Mansfield</a> </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6756/">RFC 6756</a></td> <td>itu-t-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ITU-T SG12 </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Ruediger%20Geib">Rüdiger Geib</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ITU-T SG15 (optical control plane) </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Deborah%20Brungard">Deborah Brungard</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>itu-t-sg15-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Barry%20Leiba">Barry Leiba</a></td> <td> </td> <td>m3aawg-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Unicode </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Patrik%20Faltstrom">Patrik Fältström</a> </td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3718/">RFC 3718</a></td> <td>unicode-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> <tr> <td> W3C </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Martin%20Thomson">Martin Thomson</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>w3c-liaison@ietf.org </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div></div> <div class="block-paragraph"><h2 data-block-key="vbivl">Appointments</h2><p data-block-key="b6ioc">Other external liaison appointments that participate as either a voting member or non-voting liaison from the IAB to these specific groups of the organization; these are not liaison managers that handle liaison statements, but rather represent the views of the IETF in these organization’s discussions and decision making processes.</p></div> <div class="block-raw_html"><div class="block-table"> <div class="table-responsive"> <table tabindex="0"> <thead> <tr> <th>SDO </th> <th> IETF Appointee</th> <th>Term</th> <th>More Info</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> Community Coordination Group </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Russ%20Housley">Russ Housley</a> (2017-2025), <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Barry%20Leiba">Barry Leiba</a> (2017-2025), <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Tim%20Wicinski">Tim Wicinski</a> (2018-2024) </td> <td> Two-year renewable term. No term limits. See <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8090/">RFC 8090</a> <td> "<a href="https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/Community-Agreement-09-21-2016clean.pdf">IANA IPR Community Agreement</a>", 21 September 2016 </td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> ICANN Board of Directors </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/David%20Lawrence">David Lawrence</a> (2024-2026) </td> <td>Two-year renewable term. No term limits</td> <td><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2691/">RFC 2691</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> ICANN NomCom </td> <td> Appointment in progress </td> <td>Two-year renewable term. After one term, at least two years must elapse before the individual is eligible to serve again.</td> <td><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article8">ICANN Bylaws, Article 8</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> ICANN Root Server System Governance Working Group (GWG) </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Geoff%20Huston">Geoff Huston</a> (2020-present), <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Jim%20Reid">Jim Reid </a> (2022-present)</td> <td>No specified term length or limits </td> <td><a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=120820189"> Root Server System Governance Working Group (RSS GWG)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td> ICANN RSSAC </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Daniel%20Migault">Daniel Migault</a> (2015-present) </td> <td>No specified term length or limits</td> <td><a href="https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2015-2/iab-liaison-to-icann-root-server-system-advisory-council-rssac/">IAB liaison to ICANN Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC)</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> ICANN RZERC </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Willem%20Toorop">Willem Toorop</a> (2024-2025) </td> <td>One-year renewable term. Maximum four terms</td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8128/">RFC 8128</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> ICANN TLG </td> <td> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Warren%20Kumari">Warren Kumari</a> (2019-2025), <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Petr%20Spacek">Petr Špaček</a> (2020-2026) </td> <td>Two-year renewable term. 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