RE: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

[David Allan <dallan@nortelnetworks.com>]

Title: RE: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

Robert:

I don't entirely buy the suggestion that folks will feel bad by not being selected. My experience on the NOMCOM suggested that putting someone in a job (at least really so for the IESG, and less so for the IAB) usually involved an incredible planetary alignment, right person, right place, right skillset, community respect, managerial skills, vision etc....

In other words folks should not be embarassed by not making a particular NOMCOMs set of hurdles. It is a function of what problem the NOMCOM thought it was solving.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Elz [mailto:kre@munnari.OZ.AU]
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:29 AM
> To: Brian E Carpenter
> Cc: Geoff Huston; ietf-nomcom@lists.elistx.com
> Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?
>
>
>     Date:        Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:15:46 +0100
>     From:        Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
>     Message-ID:  <3CA2DF42.318E33CD@hursley.ibm.com>
>
>   | I also agree with Thomas that we have to be very precise
> about what
>   | list is published (could even set a date, as in "all
> willing nominees being
>   | considered N days before the start of the IETF meeting").
>
> I think this is likely to be unworkable, for a reason alluded
> to by Geoff.
>
> That is, there is no date (or shouldn't be) when a suitable list of
> willing nominees is known which it would make sense to publish.
>
> I mean, how would you feel if a list was published, and then
> none of the
> nominated candidates turned out to be people on the list?
>
> But certainly we want the nomcom to be able to consider
> people who only
> are nominated (or become available) rather late in the
> process, don't we?
>
> The only way a published list could work would be if it was
> constantly being
> updated, but doing that would be essentially revealing the
> workings of the
> nomcom.
>
> When I first saw this suggestion, I had no strong opinion
> either way, after
> reading the messages, and thinking more about what would be
> involved, and
> how it might work, I have become convinced that this would
> not be a good idea.
>
> kre
>
>
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