On 4/26/2019 11:04 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Speaking selfishly, the procedure also imposes a burden on the Internet Society President to find and appoint a Recall Committee Chair. As the incumbent who'd have to do that, my first problem is to write a job description, then to find a suitable candidate who has the time and motivation and reputation to do this. Making this burden easier to impose on me at surprising intervals is something that, quite frankly, I would be inclined to resist were someone to ask me in my professional capacity what I thought. That suggests to me that the procedure would need some additional modifications in order to make the changes practical, and once the worm-can is open who knows what additional red wrigglers will start moving around?
Way back when I wrote https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stjohns-alt-3777bis-00 ; - especially section 6 - to address some of this. Basically, what I suggested was that the chair of the recall committee should be the most recent chair of the nomcom committee who wasn't currently serving on a nomcom and who would accept the appointment. I also suggested that the list of volunteers for the most recent nomcom instance be used to select the recall committee (after being pruned of the actual nomcom selectees). I proposed a model where the recall committee could be stood up in about a week and finish in either two or three.
There is no need to refer to the ISOC for any of this (seriously - "write a job description"????? serious overkill), and avoiding all the issues that you mention by avoiding the ISOC is a "good thing". Instead, work with known quantities and people and a pre-agreed upon plan.
Later, Mike
