Smoke filled rooms Irrespectively Yours, John > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > David Kessens > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:04 AM > To: Stewart Bryant > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Appointment of Scott Mansfield as new IETF Liaison Manager > to the ITU-T > > > Stewart, > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:13:44PM +0000, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > > > In this particular case the candidate pool would have been tiny, > > because the criteria would surely have included being experienced > with > > both the ITU process and the IETF liaison process, including knowing > > and understanding the liaison history. Therefore it seems unlikely > > that there would be any candidate that the IAB did not already know > > about. So whilst I agree in general, this is not a case that should > > raise any concerns. > > This is exactly the reaction that makes me worried: if the pool of > candidates is already considered to be thin to begin with, it makes > even more sense to do a call for volunteers to make 100% sure that > nobody gets overlooked. > > It's not a healthy culture to only allow positions to be filled from > the inside crowd. It's time to fix that. > > David Kessens > ---