Re: [Iasa20] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Brian.

> > Maybe what I really don't understand is the exception that allows the
> > replacement process to be done before the vacancy is announced.
>
> I don't believe that is the intention. I think the intention was to describe
> exactly what happened in 2013:
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/ogw1xIIrxXN-ExzUmordL1uXetk
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/EwBi_PHbPs3a4CqJwYDjObb2VSc
> i.e. an hour or so after an IAB member was announced as a new AD, NomCom
> started the mid-term vacancy process. (I assume that in the intervening hour,
> the IAB member resigned and the IAB duly informed NomCom of the vacancy.)
>
> In other words "The process [...] of filling the seat" includes a call for
> nominations, as it did in 2013. (The fact that it happened in May rather
> than before the MArch IETF is beside the point, I think.)
>
> I think that in this sentence:
> "The resignation may remain confidential to the IAB,
>  IAOC, IESG, and nominating committee until the confirmed candidate is
>  announced for the new position."
> the phrase "the new position" means (in the 2013 case) the Transport AD
> position. Filling in the unknowns, the sentence reads:
> "Spencer's resignation from the IAB may remain confidential to the IAB,
>  IAOC, IESG, and nominating committee until Spencer is announced as
>  the new Transport AD."

Sure, but that's not what the text says:

   It is consistent with these rules for the announcements of a
   resignation of a sitting member of the IAB and of the confirmed
   candidate for the mid-term vacancy created by that sitting member on
   the IAB to all occur at the same time

Putting the 2013 specifics into that:

   It is consistent with these rules for the announcements of a
   resignation of a Spencer from the IAB and **of the confirmed
   candidate to replace Spencer** to all occur at the same time

That second part is very different from the announcement of Spencer as
TSV AD (which I agree is no problem at all).  Having it as I've
inserted the 2013 specifics implies that Spencer's replacement on the
IAB was selected without letting community know that it was happening.

Barry