--On Sunday, March 17, 2013 15:52 -0700 Doug Barton <dougb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/17/2013 08:20 AM, John C Klensin wrote: >> If the >> confirming body knows things about a candidate that were not >> available to the Nomcom, then it should apply that knowledge. >> And, if the confirming body sees something in whatever the >> Nomcom chooses to tell it about qualifications/expectations >> that seems wrong (e.g., criteria that would permit selecting >> only an incumbent or other single candidate), then it should >> respond with vigor. > > I agree with you in principle, but if members of the > confirming body have this knowledge, shouldn't they share it > with the nomcom early in the process? Such as when the nomcom > sends out the periodic messages along the lines of, "Here's > who we are considering, please speak your piece about them." > > So it seems more a matter of, "Confirming body should act in > those cases where the nomcom chose to disregard negative > information about a candidate already provided to it." In principle, yes. But the confirming body can't know exactly what information the nomcom has been given unless it came from one of its members. And forcing those people to disclose what they told the Nomcom just because they are members of the confirming body would seem to violate several other principles. So, in practice, the cases I used as examples and your description above may not be much different. john