The handling of Late Year Mid Term Vacancies

[avri doria <avri@sm.luth.se>]

The design team found itself in a quandary regarding the issue
of how one deals with late in the year mid-term vacancies.

There were 2 facets of this that were seen as important to
varying degrees:

- A vacancy is often critical and needs to be filled in
a timely manner

- A new nomcom takes several months to get up to speed and
thus cannot be made to act in a timely manner.

There were several proposal but the main choices basically
boiled down to these two:

1. The proposal that had design team rough consensus and is
documented in the the current draft in 3.5 (soon to appear).
In this solution the term of the nomcom is 15 months.
During the 3 months when the terms of an outgoing and
an incoming nomcom overlap, the outgoing nomcom would only
be used to fill a mid term vacancy.  The nomcoms would be
isolated from each other; i.e. they would not share
information.  The outgoing Nomcom must fill mid-term
vacancies within 6 weeks of being given the task.

2. The way not chosen, leaving the term 12 months with no
overlap. All late in the year mid-term vacancies that occurred
either in the last 6 weeks of the outgoing nomcom's term or
in the first 6 weeks of the incoming nomcom's term would be
relegated to the incoming nomcom to handle in as timely a
manner as possible.

a.
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Avri Doria
http://www.sm.luth.se/~avri/