First I should say that being chair of Nomcom when an innocent mistake like this happens must be a nightmare with every possible action being subject to criticism. Andrew therefore has a completely thankless task in resolving this, and I will support what ever he decides to do. I cannot see how the presence of the an ineligible candidate that was not selected biased* the results, and I think that the result should have stood - indeed RFC3777 seems to say that it should stand. I am however concerned that the re-run decision, and now the decision about whether we continue with the re-run or not, opens the door to human intervention in a way that the RFC was supposed to design out. Given where we are, perhaps the way forward is to throw a two sided dice - using our usual method. If the answer is 0 we continue with the previous - valid selection - if the answer is 1 we rerun the selection. That way no human can determine the outcome of this ongoing selection process. - Stewart * Yes - it changed the result - but the important thing is that it will not have biased it because of the random nature of the selection from the pool. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf