Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

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

    Date:        Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:09:29 -0500
    From:        Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
    Message-ID:  <20020404140929.N5042@thunk.org>

  | Different people will have different ideas of
  | what constitutes "superior".  I'd much rather have this discussion
  | publically, even if we can only have it at an abstract level, instead
  | of having it closed doors.

Absolutely, that's what I was trying to suggest, when I said the nomcom
should ask ("start a discussion" might have been better than "ask").

In another message you asked "who should they ask?" - for that, it
depends upon the question, but everyone reading the ietf mailing list
would be a good choice for some questions.    Or perhaps nomcoms should
get into the habit of running a public mailing list of their own
(something just like the ietf list, but with a limited scope, to avoid
bothering people o the ietf list who don't care - with just an announcement
sent to the ietf-announce list when there's a new topic for discussion).

Other times, just asking the IAB, or IESG, or something might be more
appropriate - it will depend upon the question.

  | I suppose the question is how frequently do we think the desireable
  | attributes change over time?

They probably shouldn't change all that often, but the ones that seem
to be important seem to alter every year.   A few years ago, there was
a burning desire for more apps knowledgable people on the IAB, from
what's being said here, perhaps next year there will be a strong desire
for more international reps on the IAB ...

  | If we think they change very frequently,
  | then I could imagine a process where every year, there is a 2 month
  | window where there is an open discussion mailing list where selection
  | criteria in the abstract (no names, or actual candidates would be
  | discussed)for the IAB and IESG could be aired.  This could serve as
  | additional input to the nomcom.

Yes, that's the kind of thing that should be done.

kre