On Nov 10, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Without changing the /authority/ of the AD to make appointments, what about having the AD circulate a list of candidates to the pre-wg mailing list and solicit comments. I absolutely love this idea, and I think it would be a disaster. There's a reason why nomcom comments are not made public. And as an AD, I can tell you that there are situations I can imagine (which haven't yet come up) where I would absolutely _not_ want to follow the preference of the community. You could argue that such a situation is dysfunctional and the working group ought not to be formed, and you might be right, but I think you need to iterate on this idea a few times before we get to where it's something that could actually be done... :)