Re: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

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

    Date:        Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:52:16 +1000
    From:        Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>
    Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020404204850.00a48200@kahuna.telstra.net>

  | I don't think your response addresses this issue.

It didn't.

The deadline proposal (any earlier than the date at which the
candidates are presented to be confirmed) is plain silly.

For example, if you have a deadline (say January 1) at which the
list of confirmed nominees is frozen, what happens if on Jan 10
(perhaps as a result of seeing the published list) all of the potential
candidates for some position withdraw?

Now the list is frozen, the nomcom cannot go find someone else, they'd
have to leave a vacancy, to be filled sometime after the relevant
body is appointed.

That's ridiculous.

All of this (deadlines, and exposing lists) also needs to consider
how a nomcom goes about filling a casual vacancy.  Currently we expect it
to operate just the same way as it does when doing its "normal" job.
Except it is usually expected to be quicker, as there's usually just
one position to fill (the same process, compressed).

If that is to continue, and I think it should, then all this stuff
about deadlines, making the list public, ... would have to be made
to work in this case as well.

Once again, I am waiting for someone to actually propose a precise method
by which all of this could be done, and how it would be expected to work.

So far, I'm seeing nothing except "doing this looks like it might have
this advantage" with no actual investigation of just how it would
function, and what the actual procedures would be.

kre