On Apr 6, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's terrible for the IETF. It completely nullifies the NomCom > random selection process; all the suggestions in RFC 3797 seem > to be blown away by this. This seems like exactly the sort of problem that Jari's cross-area draft is intended to address.