On Wed Jun 10 16:32:37 2009, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
A more useful change would be to abolish NOMCON and for those currently qualified to sit on NOMCON to elect the IAB and ADs directly.
A complete disaster for me, at least, since I - along with a substantial number of reasonably active and involved IETF participants - am no qualified to sit on NOMCOM.
With the current state of affairs, I can still ensure my voice is heard by NOMCOM, whereas with direct voting, I could not. Given the current climate, and particularly how it affects corporate-sponsored travel, I strongly suspect that there'll be many more in my boat - indeed, it's substantially worse for those of us not in continental north america anyway.
Of course, you could change the criteria, but the real critieria which - I assume - the NOMCOM consider how much to weigh an opinion is presumably on some ethereal "participation level", which is exceedingly difficult to measure.
FWIW, the XMPP Standards Foundation has an actual membership, who do actual voting. I'm deeply unconvinced it provides the best solution there, and I've been successfully voted in to the XMPP Council twice. (Which may, of course, be evidence of it not working at all, to some).
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