Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

[John C Klensin <john+nomcom@jck.com>]

--On Saturday, 13 July, 2002 13:22 +0900 Dave Crocker
<dcrocker@dcrocker.net> wrote:

>...
> We like to think the IETF is free of such stuff, but the games
> can get pretty sophisticated, and we would do well not to
> pretend that they will not occur here.  Stuffing the candidate
> olist is one game.  Lobbying by candidates is another.  Seeking
> to poison the feedback is another.  And so on.

<sarcasm>
Of course, none of these things have ever occurred, nor could
they occur, under the current Nomcom rules and the fantasy that,
by not publishing a list of names, names are unknown to the
community.  No one has ever been proposed to the Nomcom either to
make someone else seem stronger or because it seemed desirable to
have more than one candidate for a given position even if the
second one was clearly inferior.  No one has ever organized
efforts to give the nomcom a particular picture (good or bad) of
particular candidates. Such things would be inconceivable in the
IETF.

And pigs fly
</sarcasm>

I don't know whether publishing names, under Harald's proposal or
otherwise, is a good idea, nor am I convinced about the merits of
early versus late publication, but it doesn't seem to me that
these particular types of potential abuse are an argument either
for or against it.

     john