Re: IESG Issue 2 (publication of requirements)

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

At 03:57 PM 6/11/2003 -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:


> --On 7. november 2003 10:24 +1100 Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net> wrote:
>
> > A countervailing view is that the generation of the current
> > requirements in the IETF leadership and the associated
> > desireable qualifications for the vacant positions
> > rests with the Nomcom as an outcome of its interactions with
> > the community during its consultative process.
>
> I agree, and disagree that it is countervailing :-)
> The nomcom is responsible for using *its* judgment.
> But I think that what the IESG and IAB tells them should be public, and 
> made public at the time it's written, not 6 months later.

fair enough - I can (and do) agree with this.

> > At the very least the Nomcom should not interpret any such
> > statement of 'desireable qualifications" as being a fixed constraint
> > placed upon the process, and the Nomcom should be able to
> > refine such an input to match what it is hearing from the broader
> > IETF community as to current requirements and associated
> > desireable qualifications for vacant positions.
>
> Yes.
> And the results of that refinement need to be reflected in the "testament" 
> at the end of the process.


precisely!

  Geoff