--On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:47 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I really think we want to stay away from any statement which > implies anything about the nominees views about anyone. > I do not think it is reasonable or practical to try to include > disclaimers in the list of nominees about eveyr > misapprehension that readers of the list may form. > We ought not be making any public statement about the nominees > degree of willingness to serve, degree of desire for change or > stability, or any other opinion about the nominee. We are > simply letting folks know that the nominee exists. > > If we absolutely have to have a stronger disclaimer, I would > think it would need to be quite general, not specific about > nominees opinions on any one dimension. And certainly not a > list of thing on which the nominee is not expressing an > opinion in public. And a strong disclaimer, perhaps any disclaimer, that applies to all nominees would rapidly turn into boilerplate, i.e., a waste of time that almost no one reads and fewer take seriously. As we have seen in last year's round, there is nothing in the confidentiality requirements that prevents a nominee from posting anything he or she likes to the IETF list (or elsewhere). Presumably attacks on other candidates would be frowned upon, both by the community as a whole and by a Nomcom that was trying to evaluate whether the Nominee understood the IETF well enough to play well with others. And, if someone wanted to post a public note saying "I think Elmer Fudd is doing a really good job as Duck-hunting AD; I was asked to put my name in and did so but I'm really not interested in the role unless Elmer really doesn't want to serve another term", I think we should neither encourage nor discourage that in any of these documents. john _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf