Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

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

    Date:        Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:34:34 +0200
    From:        Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
    Message-ID:  <258810000.1026369274@askvoll.hjemme.alvestrand.no>

  | 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?

Big enough - but the effect on the IETF probably wouldn't be that
great, I have little doubt but that a nomcom in that position would
quickly be able to conclude that if person X nominated several hundred
people for the position of IETF chair, then they weren't really serious
about any of them, and simply ignore all nominations from X.

So, as sabotage it wouldn't have much effect really - but it would
certainly make the process of publishing the (unedited) list completely
pointless.

If this were a technical proposal, rather than a political one, and an
equivalently trivial method to defeat its purpose was shown, we wouldn't
consider it again until a method to avoid the problem was discovered.
We certainly wouldn't be attempting to rely upon "good boys wouldn't
do that"...

kre