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

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

STARK, BARBARA H <[e-mail]> wrote:
    >> > As I was re-reading this thread, I came up with a fairly strange
    >> idea.
    >>
    >> > Let's let the Nomcom select the next Nomcom chair, with the approval
    >> of the > IAB and IESG.
    >>
    >> > Minimum ( non-waivable) qualifications:  Must have served on the
    >> Nomcom > within the last 6 years (not including the current one). Must
    >> not have served > as chair within the last 10. Must have at least 2 up
    >> votes  (recommendations) > from people (voting members?) who were on
    >> their same Nomcom.  Must not be > working for the same company as any
    >> of the previous 5 chairs were when they > served as chairs.  (Each of
    >> those numbers is arbitrary - can be twiddled for > balance - here just
    >> as a suggested starting point)
    >>
    >> I think that this might be overconstrained, but I certainly like the
    >> idea.

    > Note that the current NomCom chair has no prior NomCom experience.  I
    > suspect this was not for lack of asking prior NomCom participants.  I
    > suggest being careful adding constraints to a position that many people
    > do not want.



    > Or adding length of term / time commitment (e.g., 3 years
    > as chair-elect, chair, and then past chair advisor, instead of the
    > current 2).

a) I think that the past-chair effort really ends around December.
   I personally found the past-chair effort rather easy.

b) More and earlier training of the current chair probably makes the job
   lighter late on.

But, I can respect that this seems scary looking at it.

So I claim that introducing the chair-elect earlier might not really be that
much more of a time commitment, the commitment is just shifted earlier.
The past-chair/chair relationship is important, so establishing it earlier
seems to be useful to me.
I was fortunate in that I was a voting member of the previous nomcom.

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