Re: Nomcom candidate name announcement alternatives

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

Dave, thanks for this systematic approach. Let me argue one of your
points:

Dave Crocker wrote:

...
> All.    Names made public (effects common to all proposed changes)
...
>          CON:    ...In terms of effects
> on the nomcom process, publishing names might alter or increase
> electioneering and the efforts to manipulate the public discussion, as well
> as manipulating the resulting input to the nomcom. 

It might. On the other hand, by putting more information into public hands,
we might decrease electioneering and attempts to manipulate, simply by
making any such actions impossible to conceal.

>   ...That is, the pool of
> potential game players is perhaps two orders of magnitude larger than we
> experience today; the IETF usually considers such a scaling to have effects
> that are worthy of concern.

Indeed. But I think one important aspect of democracy is the realisation that
if everybody is a player with equal access to information, the game is not
biased. 

Thus, I'm not at all sure that these effects belong on the CON side.

   Brian