Hi Sam, I think the Nomcom has made the right decision to bring the job requirement discussion to the community. The discussion about the evolution of the Transport Area had also been very insightful to me. I hope you provided your feedback to the Nomcom when they asked for it. Ciao Hannes On Mar 6, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > > 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.