It would have been nice to have a more diverse pool of candidates. I cannot speak about the internal deliberations of Nomcom, and I won’t, but to me, the net result is disappointing. Put another way, and I am only saying it like this to
make it hopefully more obvious “given what they had to work with, they could have done better.”
I will not answer that for a couple of reasons. First, as I stated originally, I have no qualms with any of the individuals. Making my own slate would necessarily leave some of the selected people who, and – rightfully so – lead people
to think that I did have issues with anyone left off. Second, as an IETF contributor, I will have to work with many of the current slate and I don’t see how answering that question could do anything except cause friction. Third, I don’t have enough information:
I didn’t do any interviews, questionnaires are not public (well, mine was), and there was no chance to talk with a bunch of candidates. (That last is a separate problem.) Your point – we can’t take about fixing problems without concrete examples – is compelling, but flawed. As a CEO, I am sure that you know you can change hiring practices to get a more desirable output, without reviewing everyone who was
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