On May 9, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
I'm going to ask this year's Nomcom chair to see if this year's candidates can answer the question "would you have run if your name had been made public?"
Brian
Brian et al., Here are some data points for folks to consider. Thanks to all those (a surprisingly large amount in two days!) that replied to my query.
------------------------- Question asked to all 2004/05 IESG & IAB "willing nominees":
Would you have accepted nomination if the list of "willing nominees" was made public: YES or NO?
Response results: --- IESG Nominees: Total Responses: 83% of IESG Nominees YES: 79.4% NO: 20.6% --- IAB Nominees: Total Responses: 86.3% of IAB Nominees YES: 86.4% NO: 13.6% -------------------------
I didn't include any additional comments several folks expressed, as many of them have already been discussed here. I'm certain that if I posed slightly different variations of this question (for example, "What if the list were padded w/ringers?" or the like) responses would have been different.
One interesting (and perhaps rather intuitive) observation that's not entirely obvious from the numbers above is that several folks were OK with their names being listed as "willing nominees" for only a subset of the positions which they'd been nominated (e.g., OK with IAB nomination being public, but not IETF chair or IESG nomination being public).
Given the time I've spent with the NomCom over the last year as chair, (and my previous voting member term a couple years ago), I can say for sure that making the lists public would certainly be interesting and useful from the perspective of collecting feedback on nominees from the community. However, I also understand why many folks are opposed to making the list of "willing nominees" public.
-danny
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