> 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. well, in the planning meeting, i think i suggested that only people who didn't want to be on the nomcom should be eligible, but folks seemed to think this would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. the sad fact is that in the absence of rigorous membership qualifications, identifying folks who have been able to attend recent meetings is the only objective criteria we could find. if we could have switched from meeting attendance to rfc authorship, but then the environmentalists would be upset because there would be 50 or so "authors" on each rfc, thereby resulting in a larger carbon footprint for ietf activities (printing, bandwidth usage, etc.) /mtr _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf