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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 16 February 2022 19:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-sullivan-nomcom-chair-select-00
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On 17-Feb-22 06:10, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:06 PM Michael Richardson
> <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
>>      > Unless I missed it, I think there is no prohibition in this against
>>      > picking a former NomCom Chair. I'm pretty sure that has never been
>>      > done and I think it should be prohibited.
>>
>> Why should we prohibit this?
>> We have 23+ experienced nomcom chairs, some of whom might be retired now and
>> available.   It's not like it's a voting position.
> 
> So you would be fine with someone being NomCom chair for 3 or 4 years
> in a row? Should we just find someone good at it and make them
> permanent NomCom Chair?
> 
> I think having fresh eyes, having the Chair and previous Chair be
> different people, etc., is a good thing. I've been a NomCom Chair and
> have been a voting member multiple times. In my opinion, the Chair has
> a lot of subtle influence. Maybe prohibiting anyone from serving in
> that position twice is too harsh but it should be a good long while
> before they could be Chair again, like maybe 10 years.

Ten years is a long time, unnecessarily long IMHO. I think a two year
stand down would be enough; and it seems implausible that anybody would
be willing to repeat so soon anyway.

     Brian

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