+1 on the chair-elect idea. On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 01:56:51PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Rob Wilton \(rwilton\) <rwilton=40cisco.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Making this a 2-year term is likely to make it harder to find > > volunteers. It many cases, it is necessary to persuade both the > > NOMCOM chair is already two years, with the second year being past-chair. > > I've argued for sliping it six months earlier, so next year's chair joins the > previous nomcom around October as (non-voting) "chair-elect" to learn about > process stuff. > My experience is that the past-chair role is largely moot by October. > > So, we'd never want/need anyone to serve two terms in a row. > > Also, I and many other chairs have gone from serving as a nomcom member (me, > two years in a row) to being chair. So I spent *4* years influencing who > would be on the I*. Very interesting is that I got to see how choices I made > came back two years later to be renewed. Gosh, I felt like a really proud > teacher or parent or something... > > I would also like to see a tradition of alternating genders for nomcom-chair, > but I recognize that the ISOC president has a hard enough time as it is. > I don't think that we need to write any rules about how long, as I think that > the ISOC president can apply good judgement. > > > (I've been on nomcom three times as a voting member) > > -- > Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting ) > Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide > > > > -- --- tte@xxxxxxxxx
