Re: Possible extra "oral tradition" for draft-ietf-nomcom-rfc2727bis-01.txt

[Scott Brim <sbrim@cisco.com>]

On 15 Jul 2002 at 16:23 +0900, Robert Elz allegedly wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:15:33 -0400
>     From:        "Joel M. Halpern" <joel@stevecrocker.com>
>     Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020715141216.017236b8@mail.stevecrocker.com>
> 
>   | One of the reasons why I at least would like to see names available 
>   | earlier, and more feedback to the nomcom about people earlier is that some 
>   | of this apparent intransigence (to use a prejudicial description) is human 
>   | nature.
> 
> I certainly understand this - but I'm not sure how seeing a list of names
> can change anything.   If you have comments to make for or against any
> possible candidates (or nominees, whichever it is) you should be giving
> the nomcom that information anyway.   Regardless of whether you do, or don't,
> see their name on some list.
> 
> Apart from providing some kind of wakeup to members of the community who
> should be commenting, but don't bother, but still want to complain that
> they really wanted to comment after all (which isn't a problem I'd bother
> fixing at all), what does publishing the list actually accomplish?

To me that's enough, because what you're asking just isn't going to
happen.  You can't expect people to be supremely virtuous and send in
all comments, positive and negative, on all possible candidates, without
any prompting.

...Scott