Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

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

    Date:        Thu, 04 Apr 2002 06:22:48 -0800
    From:        Matt Holdrege <matt.holdrege@verizon.net>
    Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020404062054.02b541d0@mail.verizon.net>

  | But the random process of selection insures that no country will be 
  | favored. Of course if the majority of volunteers is from North America...

The criteria for being a volunteer are *heavily* biased in favour of
North American residents.   The requirement states that you must have
attended 2 of the past 3 IETF meetings.   Guess how many of the last 3
IETF meetings will have been in North America?   And guess how many
will have been in any other particular region of the world...

It turns out I have been eligible to volunteer for the nomcom exactly
once - I did volunteer, and missed selection.   While I spent 4 years on
the IAB, and have (briefly) been a WG chair, a doc editor, ... I have
not otherwise been eligible for the nomcom.

  | I understand the problem and dearly sympathize with it, but any change to 
  | the random nature of selection would not be good.

It wasn't the nomcom that was meant, no-one is suggesting changing the
method of selection there (though changing the eligibility comes up
again and again - and since the nomcom doc is being revised, that's an
issue that should probably be considered yet again).

The issue who who the nomcom should appoint to the IAB, and what guidance
they should be given.

kre