Re: am i the only one...

[Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>]

I don't see any problem as long as there are at least 30 or so qualified
volunteers. In the early years of the nomcom, 30 to 45 was typical for
the volunteer pool.

The IETF does not have a defined membership.  While there are always
arguments about the qualification criterion to be eligible to volunteer
for nomcom, it is simple, can not be faked out by pseudonyms on mailing
lists, and provides some balance between getting new people and
respresenting most of those active on the one hand and getting people
who understand how the IETF works and have absorbed its culture and can
reasonable judge the inputs the nomcom gets on the other hand (the same
as a WG chair has to judge the inputs on the WG mailing list).

Donald

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Eliot Lear wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:27:45 -0700
> From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
> To: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: am i the only one...
> 
> ... who thinks that 59 volunteers for NONCOM is pretty puny?  If you're 
> truly not interested in the future of the IETF I suppose you oughtn't 
> send your name in.  Otherwise, why aren't you volunteering?
> 
> Eliot
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