Re: SUMMARY: publish list of nominees?

[Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>]

    Date:        Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:56:27 -0500 (EST)
    From:        James M Galvin <galvin+ietf-nomcom@eListX.com>
    Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.43.0203291243520.23473-100000@three.elistx.com>

  |     PROPOSED CONSENSUS: We should publish the list of nominees and
  |     continue to update the list throughout the NOMCOM process.

You can (probably already did) assume I disagree.  This is the worst
of all the possible interpretations of this - consider you see someone
on the list of nominees being considered, then you see them vanish,
clearly they're not the best available choice - then you see them come
back again, and perhaps get nominated (become a candidate, whatever the
term is for that).   So, now its clear to everyone that the best nominee
for the position has not been appointed - but with no idea at all why.

That's an impossible position for anyone to be in.

The only way to avoid that would be to keep people on the list who aren't
seriously being considered, rather than dropping them - which would cause
lots of mail objecting to (sometimes even supporting) people who were never
going to be appointed.

I'd like to see a fully reasoned workable proposal on this before we
start claimimg to have achieved any kind of consensus, or even proposing
consensus - just the way we do in other WG's.

That is, we don't first decide the issue, and then try and figure out how
to make it work, with the issue itself decided, instead we get proposals
for how to make it work, and then see if any of them result in a desirable
outcome.

kre

ps: a whole day with no messages on a topic ... clearly everyone has
said all they're going to say.    What an absurd concept.