I have a huge number of concerns with Russ's message and am frustrated and disappointed when I think about this year's nomcom process. I just sent a message to the nomcom and iab about one of my concerns, and would like to ask you whether you think you should do the same. I specifically ask you not to reply to this message in public and appreciate your respect for the sensitivities involved. To get to this point, some combination of the nomcom and IAB has to have reached the conclusion that we don't have any qualified transport candidates when all aspects of the requirements including available time are considered. I believe based on the information I have available that's a very dubious conclusion and that there are multiple candidates I suspect are qualified to fill the position. I think that the nomcom is sufficiently off-base here that it's worth asking the community to evaluate whether I'm write or not. I wrote a long message to the nomcom and IAB explaining why I thought their conclusion is dead wrong. This is not an appropriate question to debate on the IETf list, and discussing specific candidates is even more inappropriate than debating the general question. However, there is something you can do. Take a quick moment to look at the set of nominees and consider what you know about their qualifications. If you think there are qualified candidates, write to the nomcom; I think you should copy the IAB too, because we don't know where in the process things stopped. If you think that I'm wrong and we don't have qualified candidates it definitely seems wroth dropping the nomcom a note explaining your reasoning. I think this issues is important enough that it's worth your time to look into it especially if you may have information on qualifications.q I'd also appreciate private feedback on how I could improve my approach for raising this concern. I'm not at all sure that sending this message was the best choice, but I feel very strongly that we may have mad a serious error this year, and this is the best I could come up with.