On 06/27/2013 02:50 AM, S Moonesamy wrote:
Hello,
RFC 3777 specifies the process by which members of the Internet
Architecture Board, Internet Engineering Steering Group and IETF
Administrative Oversight Committee are selected, confirmed, and recalled.
draft-moonesamy-nomcom-eligibility proposes an update RFC 3777 to allow
remote contributors to the IETF Standards Process to be eligible to
serve on NomCom and sign a Recall petition (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-nomcom-eligibility-00 ).
Could you please read the draft and comment?
FWIW, all opinions my own, etc. :)
I have attended several meetings in person, and several remotely.
Unfortunately I do not support the concept of allowing remote attendance
to qualify a person for Nomcom.
As others have pointed out, the acculturation that happens during in
person attendance is a significant part of this issue. Included in that
is the chance to have at least some exposure to potential candidates as
people outside of what is seen in e-mail and on line during meetings.
Those who participate remotely don't have that opportunity, and IMO the
Nomcom would be the poorer because of that.
I am definitely sympathetic to the argument that meeting attendance
places a high burden on the participants, and being able to attend
enough meetings to become Nomcom eligible is a substantial investment.
However I don't see a practical way to change that without a significant
changes in IETF structure. (Arguably such changes may be desirable, but
it would have to come wholesale, not piecemeal.)
Doug