Re: Updating BCP 10 -- NomCom

[Allison Mankin <[e-mail]>]

On 9 January 2015 at 14:17, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
> Allison Mankin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     > 1. Improved transition for Chairs - my thought is to add a Future
> Chair
>     > early so that she or he can observe.  Right now we've been tending
>     > mainly to select as Chairs people who were recently Nomcom members.
> My
>
> Oh, yes, we almost forgot: we need a turn-over ceremony at the "Second
> meeting"
> (probably should be the Admin plenary), when the new nomcom is now
> *CLEARLY*
> responsible for any open positions.


> This is also when the past nomcom-chair and committee members can
> completely
> and irrevocably destroy any private keys and notes they might have kept,
> and the secretariat can remove any email aliases that might be around and
> might get autocompleted.

​​


>
> I don't know if this needs to go into 7437, but it needs to written down.
>
​Agreed and I think at least some of it should be in the BCP - it's part of
the workflow.
​


>
>     > 2. During my tenure we had to invoke the thoughtful BCP 10 allowance
> to
>     > operate with 9 members rather than 10, because one of our members
>     > became permanently unavailable.  We had some risk of losing another
>     > late in the game as well, and I think this is always a risk.
> Therefore
>     > I'd like to see the addition of one warm spare, selected during the
>     > random draw, who joins meetings, observes, conceivably helps with
>     > interviewing, and is available quickly to participate if there is a
>
> We discussed drawing the name, but I didn't know you anticipating them
> joining too...  I'm thinking about this.
>

I hadn't thought about them not joining :-) They could be a cold spare,
that'd serve too.
In either case, just drawing the person wouldn't be enough - that spare
person would have
to be publicly announced and verified by the various folks who check and
verify the random process.