Re: [Eligibility-discuss] Fwd: The "eligibility" list, and a virtual meeting

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 18 September 2019 21:30 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:29:23 -0700
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 2:24 PM Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:

> But, I confess, I read Ekr's comment as though he was saying that the
> existence of a recall process was pointless because NomCom exists.


No, I was responding to the narrow claim that John made that recalls were
the "community's only socially-acceptable way of removing someone". I now
see his clarification and I think we are in agreement about the facts.



> SM's question was that, given that a recall process exists, should remote
> attendees be barred from participating in a request for a recall committee
> to be formed?
>

I understand that, but when considering new work we don't generally feel
ourselves bound by the particular question that the proponents want to
raise.

-Ekr


> Best,
> Adrian
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> On 9/18/19 12:11 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> > The Nomcom process and the Recall process are independent of each other.
>
> I'm not EKR but I believe that the argument is that one obviates
> the other - that bad actors can simply not be reappointed.  That
> may be true, modulo schedules and whatnot (the risk of leaving
> someone who's performing badly in place for longer than would be
> the case if they'd been recalled).
>
> Melinda
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