I want to raise my concerns with the community feedback deadlines
defined by NomCom 2024 which was 11/2/2024 for online-feedback and "end-of-IETF-week"
for in-person feedback. In addition, the message during the plenary was that
the online feedback during IETF121 was open ... but not guaranteed to be taken into
account".
I was going back through a longer range of past NomCom, and this is the
earliest deadline i could find. Dean explained to me at the end of the week
that he would like to reduce the work of NomCom this way and thinks this could
help get more volunteers for NomCom.
IMHO most participants who will provide feedback are also active contributors and
hence often busy in the last weeks before IETF, writing drafts, preparing meetings
or meeting materials.
In addition, they themselves might like to use the in-person meeting to get more
insight talking to others before providing feedback. In addition, distinguishing
between in-person and online feedback also feels wrong. As does "not guaranteed
to be taken into account"
I propose that the deadline for NomCom feedback should be friday OEB after
IETF week. This gives one more week to give feedback and then one more week
for NomCom to do the final calls with the "votes" before e.g.: USA thanksgiving.
Alternatively, run the current deadlines as an experiment for 2 more years and
see if it actually did significantly increase the amount of NomCom volunteers.
If not, declare the experiment finished. Likewise of course it would make sense
to measure the number of feedbacks (this was AFAIK not listed on the plenary
slides). I specifically would like to see the number of feddbacks this year
compared to the prior years.
Overall, i don't think these current deadlines reduce the amount of work for NomCom.
I also was voting member in two past NomComs, and i did not perceive the
calls after autumn IETF to be too much work.
Cheers
Toerless
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 11:00:16AM -0700, NomCom Chair 2024 wrote:
> Hi IETF,
>
> The nomination period has ended, and the 2024 NomCom is now accepting feedback on nominees for the IAB members, IESG Area Directors, IETF Trust trustees, and IETF LLC Board.directors.
>
> The list of nominees for the 2024-2025 cycle is available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2024/feedback/
>
> The online feedback form attributes your feedback to you in a way that all NomCom members can see. If you prefer greater anonymity, you can ask someone else to submit feedback on your behalf. Anyone is welcome to contact me or any trusted NomCom member to request that we submit anonymous feedback for you. The NomCom will respect the confidentiality of the feedback you provide.
>
> Feedback will remain open until November 2, 2024. We may accept feedback after that date, but we cannot guarantee it will be reviewed.
>
> Thank you in advance for your feedback—we truly value it and appreciate the time you take to provide it.
>
> Dean Bogdanovic
> IETF NomCom Chair 2024
> nomcom-chair-2024@xxxxxxxx
