Re: DISCUSSION: publish list of nominees?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

kre,

The error cases have to be handled (as they have to be under 
today's rules). But I thought we were trying to reach a decision 
of principle first, rather than work out all the details. 

   Brian

Robert Elz wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
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