On 14-Feb-22 19:34, Eliot Lear wrote:
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How important is the chair role? [I honestly have no idea.]
Very important, I would say. A fair, conscientious and proactive chair
is necessary, and we've been very fortunate over the years. In other
words, the undefined process has worked pretty well, although I
fully understand Andrew's concerns.
The insider bias risk is considerably reduced by the fact that the
NomCom chair is non-voting.
On 15-Feb-22 03:04, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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I suspect that in reality the only way to get good candidate>> is to nicely ask a number of likely people and hope that one will say yes.
That's the process we have now, and it has the obvious problem
that it depends on the Internet Society President (at present, me)
having a good list of "likely people". Populating that list is
what I'm trying to do.
A public call for candidates seems reasonable. I am however rather
concerned by the idea of a published list and call for comments.
I can imagine a variety of unfortunate side effects of this,
some of which might undermine the eventual chair's neutrality.
I'd advise against for the first year, until the effect of a
public call for candidates is known.
Brian Carpenter
