Ralph, Thanks for your kind words. Indeed the nomcom members have put in a lot of hard work and as such deserve recognition. For the most part, the credit for the conception of the report goes to the circumstances that led to dispute resolution during the confirmation process. RFC 3777 says that the chair is to include the dispute report when reporting on the activities of the nominating committee. Normally we report on the activities of the nomcom during the IESG plenary. But, when there is a dispute report, it appears that a supplementary means of publishing the report is necessary. That said, I agree with you that, keeping the confidentiality issues firmly in mind, future nomcom chairs should publish such reports in an attempt to make the nomcom process as open as possible. I hope that the openness helps increase community participation in the process and encourage people to volunteer to be a voting member, provide feedback and accept nominations more so than in the past. best regards, Lakshminath On 3/6/2008 7:57 AM, Ralph Droms wrote: > Lakshminath - thanks a lot for publishing this report. We all > appreciate and applaud the work you and the Nomcom put into this year's > I* selections, and I especially appreciate that you invested the time > and effort - after all that earlier hard work - to produce this report. > It will be of great value to future Nomcom chairs as well as the > community as a whole, and I hope future Nomcom chairs will sustain the > custom of producing similar reports (now I wish I had produced a report > like yours after I served as Nomcom chair). > > - Ralph > > On Mar 5, 2008, at Mar 5, 2008,6:05 PM, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> A report on the nomcom's activities is available at >> https://www.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/07/nomcom-report. Please direct >> any comments to ietf@xxxxxxxxx I will make a brief presentation at the >> IESG plenary. >> >> Abstract >> >> This document reports on the work of Nomcom 2007-8. The topics of >> discussion include the experiences in starting the nomcom process >> early enough to facilitate the nomcom to do their work at 2 face-to- >> face meetings, the various logistical challenges involved in the >> nomcom process and the differing interpretations of RFC 3777 by >> different people and organizations involved in the process. This >> document also discusses the challenges in the interaction between the >> nomcom and the confirmation bodies. >> >> regards, >> Lakshminath >> _______________________________________________ >> IETF mailing list >> IETF@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf