Pekka:
- 'Nominating Committee Process: Earlier Announcement of Open Positions and Solicitation of Volunteers' <draft-dawkins-nomcom-dont-wait-03.txt> as a BCPI have two issues with this. 1) This places a new responsibility at the feet of IETF secretariat. That's a new actor (not even a person but a role) in the process. This is not good. Better would be that the process allowed some already responsible party (be it ISOC president, former NomCom chair, IETF chair, IAB chair, or all of the above) the _option_ to allow IETF secretariat to perform this announcement. (More about the "option" issue below) 2) As proposed, the IETF secretariat's role is exclusive. In the future no one else would have the authority to publish the solicitation. I don't think this is good. The role should be optional, if _responsible_ party(ies) chooses to take that path, or at most inclusive of other parties' authority.
The IETF Executive Director, who is part of the Secretariat, already has a role in NomCom. The IETF Executive Director provides the requirements for the open positions.
Would you be more comfortable if the Executive Director were named as the responsible party?
Russ
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