>My understanding of my role as a liaison when I was one, and my reading of the relevant RFCs at least at the time, was absolutely that the >liaison had exactly the same obligations with respect to confidentiality as any voting member. When I was the ISOC board liason to the nomcom, that was my experience, too. I sat in on many of the interviews and a couple of times took the notes so the nomcom members could concentrate on talking with the candidate. What I brought back to the ISOC board was one bit, whether I believed that the nomcom had followed the process as it was supposed to do. Unsurprisingly, the value of the bit was True. R's, John