Re:

[John C Klensin <john+nomcom@jck.com>]

--On Wednesday, 11 September, 2002 14:58 -0400 Scott Bradner
<sob@harvard.edu> wrote:

>> We also have the working group rosters that people write
>> their names  in.  That might be a possible way of validating
>> that someone one also  participated in the meeting.
> 
> once upon a time these were typed into a database but that
> stopped  a while back - they are still being done as part of
> the documentation process needed in today's standardization
> world (they are kept at the secretariat for retrieval if
> needed) so it would be laborious to use the sign in sheets as
> proof

Perhaps more to the point, if someone who is basically a
non-attendee wants to get onto the nomcom sufficiently much to
pay registration fees for standing around the halls, nothing
would prevent him or her from wandering into enough WG meeting
rooms for long enough to write a name on a few blue sheets (or
to ask someone else to do it).   Those sheets are just not a
very good check on someone who wants to beat the system.  And
those who understand the spirit of the rule and want to work
with it are, IMO, extremely unlikely to volunteer for the Nomcom.

     john