On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > Try this one, quite non-hypothetical: a candidate for the IESG is > contemplating switching jobs. His or her current employer does not > yet > know this. It has a clear bearing on whether or not that person can > do > the job of AD, but equally clearly should not be broadcast to the > world. Indeed. And this is one of the concerns with the confirming body seeing information as well. For example, assume that a willing nominee for a given AD position wishes to complain about the incumbent AD in their questionnaire and where the incumbent went wrong with the area, and they both work same employer. The willing nominee decides that providing some detailed information on the issues at hand to the NomCom is fine because it will be kept in confidence. However, what they don't realize is that there are folks on the confirming body that also work for that employer, and they'd be reluctant (for any of an array of reasons) to share that feedback if they knew those folks within their company would see it.. This would apply equally in SMB's scenario. Same sort of issue, quite plausible, methinks. -danny _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf