Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel@stevecrocker.com>]

Looking at the document, I notice that it gives very little help to the 
nomcom with regard to what qualifications it should look for.  It states 
that the body providing the list of openings can provide qualification 
information.  It says that the nomcom should act according to the 
communities understandings of the qualifications for the jobs.  And it 
stops there.

It seems to me that some informative guidelines (not rules) might well be 
of assistance to the nominating committee.  These could start with the 
obvious, like
proposed ADs must be technically competent within their area
and could then go on to include a number of additional useful observations, 
such as Brian's suggestion that IAB appointments should keep in mind the 
resulting breadth with regard to technical and international coverage.
We could also include information about the fact that the IESG tasks are 
principally managerial and that managerial and inter-personal skills are 
important to the job.

If folks want to keep these guidelines short,
for the IAB I would focus on balance
for the IESG I would focus on the need for technical (in area) AND 
managerial competence.

I would be interested in hearing from nomcom participants as to whether 
such guidelines would have been helpful.

Thank you,
Joel M. Halpern

At 04:35 PM 4/3/2002 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I've already suggested some guideline text on turnover vs. continuity.
>
> I think we need something similar on balance.
>
>   The nominating committee is called upon to consider the general balance 
> of the
>   membership of the IAB and IESG. Factors to be considered include 
> technical skills
>   and areas of specialisation, and managerial and organisational skills. 
> In the case
>   of the IAB in particular, with its external liaison role, the 
> international
>   distribution of its membership should also be considered.
>
> I think the reasons for this are obvious, and we've occasionally had NomComs
> that overlooked the international question.
>
>     Brian
>
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