Re: Should a CB approve a slate or individuals?

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

> > Confirmations are discussed and decided upon based on the qualifications
> > of an individual, not on the ability of the slate as a whole to succeed
> > or fail.   If I were managing the confirmation process for the IAB
> > (fortunately, that's Leslie's job), I wouldn't know how to frame the
> > question of whether to accept or reject a slate based on whether one or
> > more individuals were bad enough to prevent us from accepting the rest.
> > It may be possible to frame this for a single rejection, but you start
> > getting interesting combinatorial problems when you start thinking about
> > more than one unacceptable person.
> >
> > Please, leave this as a confirmation of individuals.  If an individual
> > fails of confirmation, it shouldn't be that traumatic to suggest an
> > alternative, even if the balance among the whole slate isn't exactly
> > what the Nomcom hoped it would be.  Think of it this way: if changing 1
> > or 2 fully qualified candidates (out of 12 or 18 total members) causes
> > so much perturbation,  there's a lot more wrong than the Nomcom can
> > actually fix.
> >
> > The suggestion that partial slates could go forward also fails.  It
> > needlessly extends the process without actually adding to the quality of
> > the result.
> >
>
>
> I am curious to hear some discussion of the list on this issue.
> So far I think there have been only a few voices.  While I need
> to review the list again, I think I have heard one voice for
> voting as a slate and one against.
>
> As for RFC2727, I think it was ambiguous on the notion of a slate
> of candidates versus single candidates.


I am of the view that the most effective process is one of individual 
confirmation
or rejection , rather than confirmation or rejection of the entire slate of 
names.

The task here is to pick the best qualified individuals for each open position,
and the focus should be on the attributes of the individual to the requirements
of the open position. Treating this as a slate tends to make the entire 
confirmation
process tougher.

   Geoff