Re: A proposal for publishing nominee names

[Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>]

it seems to me that the proposal to publish the names of nominees reduces the
flexibility of the nomcom to do its job.

assuming that the basic proposal is to publish names when nominations are
received

Q1- can the nomcom select someone whose name has not been published?
	if yes then the value of publishing names is reduced
	if no then the following may be a problem

one of the tasks that the nomcoms I know about has been to beat the bushes
for candidates in addition to the ones that others have nominated.  this
process continues up until the last minute - well past the official end of
the nominations period

if this continues to be the case and names are being published and the nomcom
has to publish the names of any candidates they turn up late in the game then
anyone watching the list of names  will be getting information giving away
nomcom thinking - the closer to the decision point the more that new names
give away the thinking

in either case it seems to me that the nomcom's flexibility is reduced in
that it will be inhibited from finding the best candidate if the initial sent
of nominees turns out to not to be seen as all that good
	either they telegraph their selection (if publication is required in
order for someone to be selected) or they will shy away from getting the heat
from picking someone not on the published list


Scott