Re: What is the problem [was Re: SUMMARY: publish list of nominees?]

[Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>]

While there would be nothing wrong, in my view, to adding something
explicit about the liaisons "advising" the nomcom, the system is
deliberately designed to give the most authority to the IETF community
through the voting members.
	Given that people and people's judgements of people are
involved, I do not think it is possible to ever run the nomcom so that
everyone would agree that the process was "superb"ly executed.
	Giving liaiasons a clear voice seems fine, giving liaisons more
authority just takes away authority from the IETF community and takes
another step, if a small one, back towards making the governing bodies
self-perpetuating as the IAB was before the nomcom scheme was adopted.

Donald

 On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Scott Brim wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:14:09 -0500
> From: Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>
> To: Marshall Rose <mrose+internet.ietf.nomcom@dbc.mtview.ca.us>,
>      Joel M. Halpern <joel@stevecrocker.com>
> Cc: ietf-nomcom@lists.elistx.com
> Subject: Re: What is the problem [was Re: SUMMARY: publish list of
>     nominees?]
>
> > From: "Marshall Rose" <mrose+internet.ietf.nomcom@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:05 PM
>
> > you seem to equate adult supervision with being in charge. it isn't.
> > it's considerably more subtle and valuable. (of course, one of the
> > ex-officio's is the chair of the nomcom.)
> >
> > the idea behind having the four there is that you have another set of
> > checks and balances between the different organizations and
personnel.
> > (in addition, of course, to having folks there who can answer
> > questions about how the bodies operate and provide pointers to lots of
> > resources...
> >
> > so, i'm back to "no change is needed".
>
> If we could give the ex officio members the responsibility of keeping the
> process superb, in writing, that might be all we need.
>
>
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