Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:20:42PM -0500, John Levine: > 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. ok, elected was a poor choice of words. i did not know but 7776 tells who appoints and why there was no discussion or mention of who was under consideration. > 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
