Re: [ietf-nomcom] The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Adrian,
At 10:50 26-06-2013, Adrian Farrel wrote:
>Curiously...
>
> > 6. The proposal that I floated some years ago was to allocate /a
> > portion/ of the nomcom membership to a pool of nomcom volunteers who had
> > a history of principal contribution.  One can debate the details of
> > course, but plausible experience could be RFC author, WG Chair, member
> > of IAB, IESG or IAOC.  That's just an exemplar list; I'm not trying to
> > propose it as /the/ list.
>
>...actually also reduces the panic about allowing wider NomCom participation.

Thanks for injecting this into the discussion.

>For example (and deliberately using specific and arguable examples 
>for the sake
>of clarity), we could reserve 4 places for people from the list Dave 
>gave as an
>example, pick 4 from the current method (possibly excluding those on 
>the current
>list), and allow 2 from a wider, less qualified or remote-attender pool.

The community might require scientific evidence about why these 
numbers were chosen. :-)

>I find it interesting that the competing tensions of "make sure there is a set
>of more experienced people on NomCom" and "widen NomCom to allow broader
>participation" might be solved by the same measure.

My quick reaction would be that the goals oppose each 
other.  Thinking of it more, I would say that the set of more 
experienced people would increase over the long term while bringing 
in more participation.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy