Re: Final Call: accept incorporated comments

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 10:26 PM 3/14/2002 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> tI am very strongly against term limits (speaking as somebody who will step
> down voluntarily next Wednesday evening). In fact we do *not* have an infinite
> pool of talented and available people, and constraining the NomCom's choices
> by arbitrary term limits would be a major blunder.
>
> We do need turnover, but not on an arbitrary timescale.


Nomcom can and does decline to renew incumbents as it deems 
appropriate.  Hence we are back to asking what real problem term limits solve?

We need to make changes to fix real and serious problem.  We need to 
rigorously avoid fixing problems that are strictly theorectical.

That said, I'll note that the current nomcom did discuss how "pleasant" 
term limits would be, since it would save nomcom from having to risk 
upsetting an incumbent.

d/

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