Re: DISCUSSION: rejecting candidates

[Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On tirsdag, april 23, 2002 19:31:36 -0400 Scott Brim <swb@employees.org> 
wrote:

> If the process has not failed, and the NomCom did consider these issues
> but still came out with a different viewpoint, then ideally the
> confirming body does not get to reject, since for better or worse the
> NomCom is the voice of the people.  If in fact the process hasn't failed
> then the confirming body won't be inclined to reject anway.

As Dave Crocker mentioned earlier, we have a selection process with no 
loonie filter - anyone who can stand showing up for 2 IETFs is eligible.

Run this process enough times, and kindergarten statistics show that sooner 
or later you end up with a committee where the majority is seriously out of 
alignment with the "voice of the people".

That's a type of process failure, I think, but one where the NomCom's 
consideration of issues should not be given infinite weight.

Of course, if the incidence of loonies is low enough in the IETF 
population, we might get lucky for the next 100 years, at which time we 
probably have larger issues to worry about....

                 Harald