Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

[Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On torsdag, juli 11, 2002 12:40:01 +0700 Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> 
wrote:

>     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

hmm....

this theory depends either on someone acting with active ill will towards 
the IETF, or on someone thinking that having a meaningless list published 
is better than having a somewhat meaningful list published, despite the 
cost that the method would have to the IETF.
If this rule is adopted, it will have rough consensus in the WG, and the 
resulting document will have rough consensus in the IETF. So it would seem 
to be a case of a "conscientous objector".

If someone bore ill will towards the IETF, I think there would be other 
ways to sabotage the process (too many come easily to mind to enumerate 
here).

So we're left with the case of the conscientous objector, who is willing to 
act against the IETF consensus....how big do you think the risk is?

                          Harald