Re: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

At 4/3/2002 11:48 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > That sounds like a thoroughly unfair and ineffective way to make progress,
> > and a very good way to make sure that no-one with half a brain would agree
> > to be nominated until after the list had been published.
>
> Fair enough, so maybe a hard cutoff for nominations is needed. That is what
> most organisations do anyway.

And at that point the Nomcom loses any ability to arm twist  to ensure that 
they really have managed to find the best individuals available. Maybe 
there's a view that this is not necessarily a bad thing, but experience has 
indicated that Nomcoms do tend to work up to the wire in attempting to 
convince suitably qualified folk that they should be considered. A cut off 
date for nominations tends to dilute the Nomcom's brief to find the best 
person for each role from the entire IETF community to a more qualified 
task of selecting the best person from a fixed set of names. I'm not sure 
how this would result in a better outcome for the IETF.

(unless of course one were to abuse this by putting _everyone_ on the 
initial list by the cutoff date, in which case the entire exercise of a 
list of nominees list and the cutoff date for inclusion in this list 
becomes a somewhat pointless exercise)