Re: Nomcom candidate name announcement alternatives

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 04:45 PM 7/17/2002 +0900, Scott Brim wrote:
> > 1.  We no longer have to worry about missing input.  Worrying about
> ...
> > 2.  Every once in awhile, someone DOES have an interesting tidbit to 
> add to
> ...
> > So, I tend to prefer publishing the list of candidates that make the final
> > cut.  That will permit enough time for people with important insight to
> > provide it.  It also will limit the public exposure to the very few people
> > who are in final contention to hold a public position that requires they
> > have a tough hide.  And it permits nomcom to use the information
> > efficiently.  It doesn't carry the process trauma that comes with 
> having to
> > reverse a selection.
>
> But this doesn't satisfy either #1 or #2.  Re #1, 'the people' would
> still feel ignored.  Re #2, If you're going to use these rare tidbits to
> "resolve subtle concerns and close choices", you need them before you
> make those choices.

Hmmm.  Maybe the meaning of 'final cut' isn't clear.

Let me be explicit:  The nomcom usually does a round of review and culling, 
taking the original list of names and using the acquired input to bring 
list list down to a few candidates for each position.  (I'm trying to be 
generic here, rather than state specific details.  The details vary from 
one nomcom to the next.  However the process and milestone of producing a 
small, final set of candidates seems to be universal.)

So, It satisfies #1 by providing a window of time for folks to 
response.  While the nomcom is  doing the final round of considerations, it 
the community has time for providing those interesting tidbits.

It satisfies #2 because those tidbits can affect the choice of one final 
candidate over another final candidate.  (My claim is that such tidbits are 
very unlikely to affect the choices for the final list, but that they are 
quite useful for the subtle considerations that are needed for choosing 
among the final candidates.)


d/

... in the middle of opsarea consideration of xml vs. snmp.


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