Re: draft-sullivan-nomcom-chair-select-00

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

Hi Folks,

I read the draft.
Overall I think, it is OK.
However,
in one place it says: The NomCom Chair has historically been somewhat
difficult to fill
Despite that observation, I don't understand how the process described in
Andrew's draft is gonna make it easy? I.e. making a longer list while even
finding one is difficult?

Behcet
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 11:54 PM Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I write with my job hat on.  I'm employed by the Internet Society.
>
> Part of my job here is to select the NomCom Chair.  I've been
> uncomfortable about how that has worked in the past, and more than a
> year ago I said I'd write a new process.  I failed at that goal, but
> it's a new year so I've finally written this.  It's at
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sullivan-nomcom-chair-select/.
>
> I am eagerly requesting feedback on that draft _for things under my
> control_.  The procedures in RFC 8713 give me a lot of latitude in how
> to deal with this appointment.  They give me no control whatsoever as
> to whether I _should_ be able to do this, who else should do it, and
> so on.  Feedback of the form "Here's how NomCom should work for real,"
> will be ignored, because they will not provide me guidance as to what
> I should do.
>
> Please also resist the temptation to tell me, "Tell someone else it's
> their thing and promise to follow what they promise."  If the IETF
> wants to modify RFC 8713, including removing my own role in this
> selection, I don't imagine a universe in which I'd work to work to
> foil that.  But similarly I am not willing to create an entirely new
> consultative body (or new job for an existing consultative body)
> without the community saying so.  This document is merely an outline
> of how I plan to execute my duties as they're already defined.
>
> I hope this will be a modest contribution to the IETF, and I look
> forward to your suggestions.
>
> _Please_ send me feedback directly and not copied to the list.  I
> won't be able to follow discussion about this on the list except
> sporadically, and I'm going to have to put this plan into action some
> time in the coming weeks.  Thanks very much.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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> Andrew Sullivan
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