In article <20190111174301.GA85567@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:35:40PM -0500, IETF Chair: >> The IETF ombudsteam <https://www.ietf.org/contact/ombudsteam/> is a designated group of people who have been selected >to handle reports of potential harassment in the IETF. > >Why are these appointed rather than elected positions? Beyond what Adrian said, the IETF has no elected positions. We have a randomly selected nomcom that chooses most of the other positions, but the nomcom has no more expertise in personnel or harassment issues than any other random set of IETF'ers. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
