Re: [Eligibility-discuss] Suggestions for nomcom chair selection?

Andrew,

Just to start the ball rolling, here's a bit of a suggestion, just my two
cents.

As nomcom nominates the I*, there's the possible appearance of
impropriety for you to receive advice on the nomcom chair selection from
the I* members or chairs - there's a possibility that the suggestion could
be self-serving if the person decides to re-up (unless that person isn't up
for re-nomination in that cycle).

However, it occurs to me that you could send an annual email to the WG
chairs email list asking for private suggestions and/or volunteers. Who
collectively knows what's going on in the trenches better than the WG
chairs?

Cheers,
Andy (in the spirit of full disclosure - I'm a WG chair :-).

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 3:21 PM Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'm the President and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC), and I'm writing
> with that hat on; but this account is where my IETF mail subscriptions
> generally are so it's more convenient to use this address.
>
> One of the things that I have been reflecting on in the discussions about
> nomcom eligibility is that it would also affect the pool for nomcom chair
> availability.  As you probably know, I'm responsible to appoint the nomcom
> from year to year as part of my job.  When I am replaced, that person will
> take over the responsibility.
>
> My job pulls me ever more away from the IETF, and I found it challenging
> to recruit and appoint the last two chairs.  I am grateful that, in my
> estimation, I was able to get two people to volunteer that I thought were
> well-qualified and likely to do a good job, but I'm also aware that my
> familiarity with the IETF community is decreasing over time.  This is in
> part due to the way the LLC has been designed, which I always understood as
> intending to create a little more distance between the Internet Society and
> the IETF.  In keeping with that institutional design, I have been limiting
> my own participation; and ISOC has adopted a number of policies to ensure
> that it is not possible for others to mistake staff participation as ISOC
> control or dominance of the IETF.  But, this means that the informal
> networks of connections that have historically bound the IETF and ISOC are
> perhaps not as strong as they once were.  In any case, an IETF with very
> different nomcom eligibility criteria will m
>  ean different criteria for nomcom chairs, too, so this seems like a good
> time to try to describe some sort of community mechanism to inform the
> nomcom chair selection.  I could try it out for the next year, to see
> whether it might be practical.
>
> The trouble I have is that I don't really know where to start except with
> the approaches I have, which are mostly informal and depend upon the
> social-professional networks I have as well as those of others.  That seems
> like a poor foundation on which to build, so I thought I'd ask to see
> whether people here have other suggestions for a starting point.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> A
>
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