RE: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

At 3/28/2002 06:17 AM, David Allan wrote:

> I think many of the gyrations/arm twisting etc. beyond that point...if 
> necessary...would require minimal justification if it was simply 
> understood that for the NOMCOMs reasons, the list of confirmed candidates 
> did not contain a legitimate contender according to the criteria the 
> NOMCOM formed in talking to the community. It was a snapshot in time of 
> the process.

Having had some considerable first hand experience with this process, your 
view that there would need to be minimal justification is an extremely 
optimistic perspective. The risks of locking the Nomcom to a list that 
needs to be frozen at a point in time, the need to then lengthen out the 
process to allow for adequate time for comment (or more cynically, adequate 
time to organize a campaign), and the issues over the individuals who would 
be willing to participate in such a process all strike me as relatively 
large leaps away from a deliberate and considered process to select as 
candidates those individuals who have superior qualifications for the  role.

I also cannot understand how such a process would instill any increased 
level of confidence in the Nomcom's activities. I personally would see this 
as facilitating the opposite outcome.


  Geoff