Subject: IAB report to the community for IETF 110

From: IAB Chair <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:45:22 +0100

Dear colleagues,

As usually, the IAB has uploaded its report for the IETF-110 meeting to the proceedings in the datatracker. To access the full report, please see here:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/110/slides/slides-110-ietf-sessa-iab-report-to-the-community-for-ietf-110-00

In this email I would also like to use the opportunity to highlight some news:

IAB Chair selection
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The IAB has reselected me, Mirja Kühlewind, as IAB Chair. Thanks a lot! I’m really looking forward to serve another year in this role and to keep working with a new IAB on further improving transparency and visibility of the IAB hoping that we as a group can provide valuable input to the community!

Workshop reports
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The IAB has published the draft workshop report for the COVID-19 Network Impacts IAB workshop that was held online last November:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-covid19-workshop/

We already received quite some feedback and some good reviews. Huge thanks for that! We believe this document will soon after the IETF-110 meeting be ready for publication as IAB RFC. However, more feedback and reviews are of course very welcome!

Further, the report for the IAB workshop on Design Expectations vs. Deployment Reality in Protocol Development has been published as RFC 8980: 

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8980/

IAB Liaison Coordination
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The IAB has established a new Liaison Coordinator position. This position provides a clear contact point for all liaison managers as well as for the community regarding any liaison-related requests towards the IAB. Further, this new role is a first step to improve coordination and communication of our liaison management and handling of liaison statements. The IAB is currently working actively on further improvements in that direction. 

To reach the IAB liaison coordinator(s) a new mailing alias has been established:

[email-masked]

In any case, you can of course still reach the IAB with any questions, also regarding liaisons, directly by sending a mail to [email-masked].

Or, feel free to also just send me an email directly, if you have any comments or concerns you want to discuss!

Best regards,
Mirja Kühlewind
IAB Chair

On behalf of the IAB