Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

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

    Date:        Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:22:04 -0400
    From:        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Message-ID:  <20020714192204.GF1660@think.thunk.org>

  | the gaming problem can also
  | be addressed by allowing the nomcom decide that someone who has
  | flooded the nomcom with thousands of names can be safely ignored, thus
  | (a) saving the nomcom from having to ask everyone if they want to be
  | considered, and (b) those names would therefore not have to appear on
  | the list.

(a) yes, certainly, but on (b), part of the simplicity and what made
Harald's suggestion better than most of the earlier ones, was that it
was totally algorithmic, and revealed nothing of what the nomcom was
actually doing.    Once the nomcom starts editing the list, for any
reason, a lot of this gets lost.

  | possibly up to and including making the
  | public that someone has attempted to game the system by flooding the
  | nomcom with all possible IETF members as suggestions, for example.

If it is a straight DoS attack, then yes - but the same issue with a
flood of names can also occur just because everyone wonders why X isn't
on the list, for their favourite X, and suggests them.

Aside: I was half way through this reply when the nomcom meeting
started (then suspended it till now when it is over).  For those who were
not there, the result was no consensus for anything from the attendees,
and to continue the discussion on the list.

kre