--On 15. november 2005 12:24 +0100 Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I actually think the bar is too high for other reasons. Those same 20 people are not allowed to serve as jury, and that makes sense. but we're not a large community, and while I understand the need to prevent DOS attacks on the IESG, I would still halve the number. As it is now it's just about impossible to get rid of someone who is really doing a bad job, even if it's obvious. The balance has to be gotten right, and that's hard, considering nobody has actually been recalled. Has anyone even tried?
I remember talking about this at the time the NOMCOM WG decided.An interesting argument was that the 20-person limit actually was a lower bar to responsible persons than the 1-person limit; with the 1-person limit, anyone who used the mechanism knew that he was a) standing alone and b) exposing a fundamental flaw in the IETF's DoS protections; with the 20-person limit, you can easily get there when a crisis is big enough to gather lynch crowds, and you get the security of just being one among many, while if the crisis is a small one, you won't get that far.....
I don't think the tuning can be said to have succeeded if we get one recall request a year under non-crisis conditions.....
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