Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Having originally raised the suggestion of publishing names,
I agree that this approach is the least bad way of doing it,
but with the extra time that is now proposed to be added to the
process, I no longer feel that publication is essential.

We could always try doing it for one year, with no commitment
for future years.

   Brian

Robert Elz wrote:
> 
>     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