Re: [ietf-nomcom] I-D Action: draft-moonesamy-nomcom-eligibility-00.txt

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

So, I understand what this is trying to do:

>       Members of the IETF community must have attended at least 3 of
>       last 5 IETF meetings remotely or in person including at least 1 of
>       the 5 last IETF meetings in person in order to volunteer.

It's not unreasonable; on some interpretations of "attended ... remotely"
it would requalify me for NomCom, for example. But it raises two flags for
me:

1. I don't think that physical attendance at one meeting is convincing
as an indication that someone really understands how things work
around here. As John hints, *any* objective criteria are a surrogate
for whether a person groks the culture. But if we must have criteria,
they need to be convincing. I would prefer something more like

...must have attended at least 3 meetings in person, and have
attended at least 3 of the last 5 meetings in person or remotely...

(i.e. this looks at their lifetime history of personal attendance,
and their recent record of any kind of attendance).

2. I didn't find an objective definition of "attend remotely".

    Brian

Regards
   Brian