Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

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

Robert Elz wrote:
> 
>     Date:        Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:09:00 +0200
>     From:        Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
>     Message-ID:  <3CAC344C.25D6CF8D@hursley.ibm.com>
> 
>   | Which is why any guidelines need to governed by a disclaimer, stating that
>   | they are only guidelines and not binding rules.
> 
> Yes, but even with that, the instructions to the nomcom are just
> guidelines too - so there's the question of conflicting guidelines.
> 
> If we were to put something like this in the nomcom doc now, we would
> be expressing our current desires, not necessarily those that will even
> apply when the next nomcom starts, let alone all the others that will
> pass before anyone has the energy to revise this doc again.
> 
> I think I'd just leave them out, and make it more clear that better
> guidance should be given when the nomcom is created, and that if the
> nomcom is still unclear which direction it should go, it should ask.

That was my view few years ago. But I think we've lost some folklore
over the years, and I think writing it down is the lesser evil. It
could be a separate document from RFC2727bis.

   Brian

   Brian