At 05:15 PM 10/10/2014, Barry Leiba wrote: >Just a point of fact: > >> You need to read it all. Regular candidates serve a 2 or 3 year >> appointment. Mid-term vacancy fillers serve between 1 to three years >> depending on when the vacancy occurs. AFAIK we've never made a normal >> vacancy 1 year appointment. > >We did it on the IESG when we created the RAI area in 2006: Jon >Peterson was appointed RAI AD for a one-year term, and Lars Eggert was >give a one-year term in TSV to fill the mid-term vacancy. > >We did it on the IAB when we appointed Eliot Lear for a second >one-year term in 2014 (his first one-year term was to fill the >mid-term vacancy created when Jari became IETF Chair in 2013). > >Barry Interesting... I didn't catch that last one at the time. I'm not quite sure why the Nomcom didn't follow the rules and appoint someone to a three year catch up term instead of just giving Eliot a 1 year term. Actually, I'm not sure why the previous Nomcom didn't give Eliot a 2 year term in the first place - that would have solved the rebalancing thing then. (Hmm... ok, maybe the rule about poaching IAB members needs clarification again - it doesn't exactly fit the mid-term vacancy rules) All of this is water under the bridge, but I do remember the topic of short terms being hotly debated during 3777's creation and soundly rejected resulting in the rule as written. No worries - Mike