Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

[Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On torsdag, april 04, 2002 14:09:29 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 
wrote:

> So if there is ever a question about picking the "best" technical
> candidate from the U.S., and someone who is "not-quite-as-good, but
> still quite decent" candidate from a non-North American country, what
> should the nomcom do?

If a candidate for IAB is "brilliant in routing, but clueless about 
anything but English", and another candidate is "average in routing, but 
knows a LOT about how non-US people interact with computers", I don't think 
it's obvious that one is the "superior" candidate.

If the nomcom thinks that being non-North American is important, then being 
non-North American will make that candidate superior, all other things 
being equal.

No contradiction, but not much help either :-)