Re: guidance on avoiding too many people from one company/group

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

Scott,


Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 11:17:24 AM, you wrote:
Scott> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:08 PM -0500,
Scott> Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> allegedly wrote:
>> Therefore a nomcom that has too little IETF experience among its
>> voting members is likely to make dangerously naive decisions.

Scott> I understand your rationale.  I was asking if you could describe
Scott> specific problems we have had that you wish to solve.

1. I'm sure you are not asking me to divulge any specifics of nomcom
deliberations, since they are confidential.

2. Sorry, but the extent that I think it reasonable to talk about the internals of
nomcom behavior, I've offered what I feel I can.


Scott>   If you do so then
Scott> we can evaluate whether having non-voting nomcom members, and incumbent
Scott> ADs, covers those problems well enough already, or whether we need to
Scott> develop new procedures.

There is a separate discussion worth having, about the role of non-voting
members.

The danger on relying on them for fundamental aspects of the process is that
it effectively put them in charge of that process and the result.

That's not the way the system was intended to operate, nor do I think it
should be.  The non-voting participants are incredibly valuable.  My feeling
is that they are sometimes TOO valuable.  I tend to think that a liaison
should be a consultant and should liaise, but that they should not be
primary participants in the process.

Voting members are supposed to make the decisions. It is therefore essential
that the voting members hold enough understanding of things to be able to
make the decisions.

d/
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