Re: Updating BCP 10 -- NomCom

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 09 January 2015 18:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: Updating BCP 10 -- NomCom
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John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
    > refers to liaisons being present and able to comment during
    > deliberations about particular candidates (and I understand it has at
    > least sometimes been interpreted that way), then there is at some risk
    > of chilling effects or inappropriate influences, even with the best of
    > intentions.  In that regard, I am more concerned about input the Nomcom
    > doesn't get because someone is concerned about damaging an existing

In the past 3 nomcoms that I've been involved with, the nomcom has felt the
opposite.  That the Liason has (probably appropriately) refused to comment
when the nomcom really does want to know more about what happened during the
XYZ-fiasco, etc.

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