At 10:11 19-03-2008, Dave Crocker wrote: >The current discussion about Nomcom activities has been sufficiently >professional and constructive in tone to prompt me to raise a particularly >delicate point: > > Just how realistic is our belief in confidentiality for the process? Restricting what information the nominating committee can share might make their work more difficult as they won't be able to use their discretion to determine which information can be used in their testimony. >Let me suggest that we at least discuss a model that begins by allowing >everything to be open, and then imposes restrictions only when there is The process starts with a roll of a dice. That's as scientific as it can get. From there on, subjective decisions are made as human factors have to be considered. We rely on the integrity of the nominating committee and the confirming body to make the right choice. This process is both about hiring and governance. We can have an open model to show that the process is fair. That doesn't guarantee that the outcome will be to everyone's satisfaction or that the work will get done. At 08:15 20-03-2008, Eric Rosen wrote: >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. The nominating committee is the IETF's version of a democracy (sortition). Regards, -sm _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf