One more comments on the process draft

[Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU>]

I sincerely apologize for this belated comment (only got on the mailing list
yesterday)


   15.  Members of the IETF community must have attended at least 3 of
        the last 5 IETF meetings in order to volunteer.

     ........
        Volunteers are expected to be familiar with the IETF processes
        and procedures, which are readily learned by active
        participation in a working group and especially by serving as a
        document editor or working group chair.

The above is a step forward from the prev requirement (2 out of last 3
meetings).  I assume the intention is to get volunteers with adequate
familiarity with BOTH the IETF process AND the individual participants. I
would like to suggest to make this step a little bigger.

One could meet the above requirement by attending the last 3 meetings during
one year period, which seems still a bit too short.  And the expectation of
being "familiar with the IETF processes" is a subjective one  (in academic
publication reviews, graduate students are most likely ones to consider
themselves "expert in the subject area" :-)

Given the current economical conditions, there can also be well qualified
people who may have attended many IETF meetings previously but unable to
attend as often in the last 2 years.

So how about the following as a suggestion:

   15.  in order to volunteer, Members of the IETF community must
        have attended at least 4 of the last 8 IETF meetings and the first
        attendance must be at least 3 years prior to the date on which the
        solicitation for nominating
        committee volunteers was submitted for distribution to the IETF
        community.

Lixia