Eric, Thank you for such a wonderful positive description of the process. I am sure it will lead to much more participation and volunteer activity, after all, who doesn't want to travel? I am particularly pleased to see that you have so many creative suggestions for alternative ways for choosing our leadership. Keep it coming! Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Eric Rosen wrote: > > > The random selection process coupled with the relatively small number > > of volunteers is an interesting factor in all of this > > Nomcom is a group of people randomly selected from among a set of folks > whose only qualifications are that they want to be on nomcom and they like > traveling to meetings. > > I've never understood the logic behind the theory that this is supposed to > lead to a good slate of candidates. > > > The Giant Reset of 2006 > > Oh I remember that. For fairness, we replaced one randomly selected group > of folks with another randomly selected group of folks from the same > volunteer pool. We wouldn't want to end up with the wrong randomly selected > group, would we? That's another bit of logic I never understood. > > Given that the whole process is whacky, fine tuning of various little > details probably won't make much of a difference. > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf