Re: IESG Issue 2

[Cees de Laat <delaat@science.uva.nl>]

At 15:17 -0400 8/10/03, Scott Bradner wrote:
>  > It is consistent with these rules for the Nominating Committee
> >  to nominate a sitting Area Director to a different Area and simultaneously
> >  nominate a new Area Director to the position thus vacated, or to
> >  nominate a sitting IAB member to an Area Director position and
>  > simultaneously nominate a new IAB member to the position thus vacated.

Be careful with allowing simultaneous nomination when having moving 
AD's. We in the GGF (Global Grid Forum)  did a nomcom process which 
now completed successfully but we ran almost in the following problem:

If you candidate a sitting AD for for an IAB position and at the same 
time candidate someone for that vacated spot you run in the problem 
that if the original candidate is not confirmed for the IAB, he 
remains in the old position and you basically disclosed the name of a 
"runner up" to the confirming body of that first position.  It may be 
that the other AD position was also open and gives that confiming 
body knowledge in terms of "oke, if we reject this one, their next 
choise is that one". So the only clean way is to keep it a two step 
process.

In our  GGF case this situation of "rejected" did not happen, but 
could have been.

Best regards,
Cees.
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