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

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Joel,
At 10:10 26-06-2013, Joel wrote:
>You seem to be asserting that the requirement I describe in the 
>first paragraph as a form of discrimination.  In a purely linguistic 
>sense, it is.  But that does not change the reality.  Which is why I 
>keep coming back to asking to change the reality first.

The reality is that some working groups are not working and it has 
been like that since several meetings.  The reality is that one or 
more directorates have not been working since several years and 
nothing was done about that.

The reality is that NomCom had to select an Area Director and the 
consent of the IAB was required.  There was another call for 
candidates.  A member of the IAB was selected as Area 
Director.  Please note that I am not inferring that the person did 
anything inappropriate.  Let's assume that you were one of the 
candidates who was not chosen.  You might feel slighted by 
that.  This is where you decide to go incommunicado instead of doing 
the working group chair work.

The reality is when I ask you for help to find a mentor you go out of 
your way to do so.  When somebody who has been to many meetings tells 
me that he/she had difficulty finding mentors I think that the is a 
problem somewhere.

let me share a story I read:

   'I was having tea with A company when we heard a lot of shouting and went
    to investigate.  We found our men and the Germans standing on 
their respective
    parapets.  Suddenly a salvo arrived, but did no damage. Naturally 
both sides got
    down and our men started swearing at the Germans. All at once a 
brave German got
    on to his parapet and shouted out "We are very sorry about that; 
we hope no one
    was hurt. It is not our fault, it is that damned Prussian artillery".'

The above is described as "live and let live".  It is about 
non-aggressive cooperative behavior that happened a long time ago.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy