Re: Should a CB approve a slate or individuals?

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

At 09:48 AM 4/1/2003 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Locking the process to "individuals only" would then produce a suboptimal 
result.

> That's not what we expect to be the common case, but I'd like to have the 
> possibility open.

I feel that this approach is a new vector in the nomcom process, and one that
I'm not entirely happy with. I'm not entirely happy with the concept of the
IESG or the IAB being a clump of orthodoxy, where the individual members are
chosen according to their level of adherence to a common theme or membership of
a particular clique or school of networking thought. I'm not sure any of us 
see benefit
in such an direction for the IETF.

I would like to think that the IESG and IAB folk have been nominated by 
their peers
because they are regarded as being qualified _as individuals_ to do the 
task, and I
would be much more comfortable if the confirming bodies had the ability to 
see the
nominations as a set of individual nominations and reviewed then as a 
collection
of individuals, rather than a 'take it or reject it' package.


        Geoff