Re: publish which list of nominees?

[avri <avri@sm.luth.se>]

A data point;

In several of the NomComs i was involved with, the 
recruitment effort on some positions went on almost until 
the very end of the decsion process.  And although in most 
cases folks said no, there were exceptions.

a.

Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:48:50AM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>
> > Having never been on a nomcom, this is just idle speculation,
> > but I would assume that, even with reasonable candidates in
> > front of it, a nomcom might well do a certain amount of
> > "headhunting" out of ordinary due dilligence.  As just a
> > superficial example, I have been asked in interviews (although
> > not, if I recall, this year) to identify the person who I
> > thought would be the absolutely best for a particular position
> > if he or she could be talked into it (without disclosing whether
> > the nomcom was already looking at that individual).  Similarly,
> > I've been asked if I could identify the most likely
> > up-and-coming people in a particular area for future
> > consideration.
> >
> > If a nomcom chooses to ask those sorts of questions, and a few
> > names come up many times, I would expect the nomcom to try to
> > recruit those people onto the list of people to be considered,
> > even if they had not been formally/externally suggested as
> > candidates and even if the pool already included people who
> > seemed to be satisfactory.
> >
> > If that reasoning is correct, the late addition of a name to the
> > list does not imply anything at all about presumed deficiencies
> > in the people added to the list earlier.
>
> All very true, although this tends to happen much earlier in the
> process.  It doesn't tend to happen very late in the process; so if
> new names were to appear on the list in late January or early
> February, that would leak a certain amount of information about the
> process.  I personally believe that the benefits make this tradeoff
> worthwhile, but I do have to acknowledge his downside does exist.
> (But it can mean many things, and not just that the nomcom has
> negative evaluations of all of the people under consideraton.)
>
> 						- Ted
>
>
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