Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

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

    Date:        Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:10:50 +0200
    From:        Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
    Message-ID:  <202940000.1026331850@askvoll.hjemme.alvestrand.no>

  | 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.

This is the best of the proposals like this I have seen - however the
effect of it would be that someone will simply nominate everyone who
has ever attended an IETF meeting, or written an I-D, or published an
RFC, or who's name they can dredge up from almost anywhere.   I can
easily see the nomcom getting 3 or 4 thousand nominations...

The point of course would be to make the publishing of the list of
nominations completely worthless (unless you were to also add the
number of times a person was nominated, and then you have come very
close to inventing a voting system - which has never been what we
have wanted).

The effect however would be that now the nomcom would have to go through
that long list of nominations, and process every one of them.

kre