I agree with Paul, especially since the APPOINTED candidates are completely public and posted for comments from the community. This was especially strange for me last year as a sitting member of the nomcom and a appointee-candidate for the IAOC. You could say that I helped choose my colleague, at least one could read it that way. The reality is of course a little more complicated ;-) 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 Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 10:25 PM -0500 9/12/08, Pete Resnick wrote: > >"My name was submitted to the NomCom for the position of <Foobar AD>, > >and I've told the NomCom I'm willing to be considered. Of course, > >this is no guarantee that if I get selected, I'd still be able to > >serve. Please send them whatever positive or negative feedback you > >have." > > > >End of message. No commentary on why you'd be wonderful (or terrible) > >for the job. Just inviting people to comment. > > > >Thoughts on this? > > Excellent suggestion. In the past two days, I have had two people who > have been active in the IETF for over five years ask when we would > find out who was nominated. People don't understand that we won't > ever have the full list posted. In one case, that led to the person > seriously considering whether he should self-nominate for an AD > position that they would not have done otherwise. > > It is not clear to me that there is much value to the above kind of > public statement for IAB members, but it would probably also be find > for the IAOC slot. > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --VPN Consortium > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf