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    <title abbrev="termlimits">Term limits for IETF Leadership Positions</title>
    <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-rsalz-termlimits-00"/>
    <author initials="R." surname="Salz" fullname="Rich Salz">
      <organization>Akamai Technologies, Inc.</organization>
      <address>
        <email>rsalz@akamai.com</email>
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    <date year="2021" month="October" day="20"/>
    <area>gen</area>
    <workgroup>TBD</workgroup>
    <keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword>
    <abstract>
      <t>This document says that nobody can be picked by NomCom for a position more
than two consecutive terms.</t>
      <t>It obsoletes some other documents, which ones are TBD.</t>
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      <name>Discussion Venues</name>
      <t>Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
    <eref target="https://github.com/richsalz/draft-rsalz-termlimits"/>.</t>
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      <t>After a person has served two consecutive terms in any NomCom-chosen
position, they are ineligible to directly serve for another term in any
NomCom-chosen position; there must be a gap of at least one year.
This rule goes into effect starting in March, 2023.</t>
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      <t>The key words "<bcp14>MUST</bcp14>", "<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14>", "<bcp14>REQUIRED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL</bcp14>
NOT", "<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14>", "<bcp14>RECOMMENDED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>NOT RECOMMENDED</bcp14>",
"<bcp14>MAY</bcp14>", and "<bcp14>OPTIONAL</bcp14>" in this document are to be interpreted as
described in BCP 14 <xref target="RFC2119" format="default"/> <xref target="RFC8174" format="default"/> when, and only when, they
appear in all capitals, as shown here.</t>
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    <section anchor="security-considerations" numbered="true" toc="default">
      <name>Security Considerations</name>
      <t>This document has no security considerations.</t>
    </section>
    <section anchor="iana-considerations" numbered="true" toc="default">
      <name>IANA Considerations</name>
      <t>This document has no IANA actions.</t>
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      <name>Normative References</name>
      <reference anchor="RFC2119">
        <front>
          <title>Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</title>
          <author fullname="S. Bradner" initials="S." surname="Bradner">
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          </author>
          <date month="March" year="1997"/>
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            <t>In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification.  These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents.  This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.</t>
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        <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2119"/>
        <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC2119"/>
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          <title>Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words</title>
          <author fullname="B. Leiba" initials="B." surname="Leiba">
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          </author>
          <date month="May" year="2017"/>
          <abstract>
            <t>RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol  specifications.  This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the  defined special meanings.</t>
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