Re: DISCUSSION: archiving of NOMCOM information

[Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>]

      On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Theodore Tso wrote:
    > My understanding for why the nomcom information was archived was for
    > the protection of the nomcom members.
    > If the nomcom members were to hold onto the information, then they
    > might get sued to release that information, and the expenses for
    > defending the lawsuit and having lawyers submit motions to keep the
    > information out of discovery are huge and subtantial.

This brings up the issue that the Nomcom members are currently not insured
against legal expenses by the IETF's policy, unlike all other IETF
functions/roles.  When the ISOC-funded policy goes away, it would be good
to remedy this.

                                -Bill