Dear colleagues, Emphatically no hat. Dave, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 07:58:21AM +1300, Dave Crocker wrote: > Nomcom can apply pretty much whatever criteria it wants to the > selection process and Nomcom has been know to have some private > negotiations with the IESG. Nothing as profound as the change we > are suggesting, but still... I agree that the Nomcom can undertake such negotiations. I wonder, however, whether you really are suggesting that the Nomcom could make this decision on its own, without even telling anyone it is using such private criteria, and without the community breaking out the tar and feathers on the future date when that news somehow comes out. (More succinctly, I guess, "Are you serious, or merely exaggerating?") > So Nomcom could start things towards that change on its own. As I read you, you're not saying "start change", but "implement a change". No? Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx