Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:10:50PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> This is being offered as a strawman concrete proposal on the issue of 
> publishing a list of nominees or candidates from the nomcom deliberations.
> It is not the position of anyone but myself at this point.
> 
> I'd like to verify the consensus for *or* against this proposal in 
> Yokohama; if there is no strong support, I'm happy to see the topic 
> disappear.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to make it to Yokohama, but I
would like to register my support for such a proposal.  

I'm aware that some people are concerned about the prospect of having
their names made public.  On the other hand, if the list is as broad
as possible (i.e., all people who have been suggested to nomcom), I
believe this mitigates this concern, since no one will know whether
someone was self-nominated, nominated by a friend, nominated by a
loon, or nominated by the nomcom.

Also, if nomcom solicits input from working group chairs and other
significant area participants, the number of people that see a
"blinded list" (which consists of the people who nomcom is actively
considering, plus some other names) is so made known to so many people
that it might as well be made public anyway --- and that list isn't
that different from the list of all people who have ever been
suggested to that particular nomcom for that particular position.

						- Ted