Re: criteria for nomcom participation

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Matt and all,

  Attending IETF meeting as criterion for being a candidate has been
trotted out several times as a precursor to eliminating good potential
candidates.  It is basically a canard of ridiculous proportions and
simply just a method used to discourage and degrade various long
time IETF participants.

  Given that Dave Crocker brought it up AGAIN on this forum simply
shows why the IETF is being viewed as less than adequate by the
current Bush administration, amongst other reasons and that Andrew
Card back in sept. spoke publicly about taking over the current
IETF function.  Of course Dave has gotten himself in trouble with the
USG before during the old gTLD-MoU fiasco...

Matt Holdrege wrote:

> If I may offer up recent personal experience...
>
> I was on the previous nomcom. At that time, I was a WG Chair and quite
> involved in many WG's across several areas. I knew the IESG and IAB members
> fairly well and I knew most of the candidates. In short, I felt fully
> qualified to be on the nomcom.
>
> Since then, unemployment has kept me from attending the last two IETF's.
> Although I'm on several mailing lists, I really don't feel that I'm in
> touch with what's going on in the IESG and IAB. If I were part of nomcom
> now, I wouldn't feel nearly as qualified as I think I should be.
>
> I used to be of the opinion that some people who don't attend IETF's could
> help out nomcom. Now I'm not so sure.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
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