Re: Last Call: <draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility-04.txt> (Update to RFC 3777 to Clarify Nominating Committee Eligibility of IETF Leadership) to Best Current Practice

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 9/27/2012 10:57 AM, Russ Housley wrote:
>> As for the earlier discussion seeking to exclude paid staff, I
>> think it odd to have criteria that would permit /any/ paid staff to
>> sit on Nomcom.  We pay for a number of folk 'staff' folk to show up
>> and IETF meetings and none of them should qualify for Nomcom, IMO.
...
> (2) Looking at the history
> (https://www.ietf.org/nomcom/committee.html), it does not seem that
> there has been an issue of 'staff' seeking NomCom spots.  Prior to
> IETF Last Call, a previous version of this document was discussed on
> this mail list and on the ietf-nomcom mailing list. It was also
> discussed by a design team made up of ex-NomCom Chairs,  My sense of
> those discussions is to exclude as few people as necessary to avoid a
> self-selecting leadership, and the current document reflects that
> perspective.


So, to provide a specific example, you would be OK with having someone 
from AMS on Nomcom?

d/

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  Dave Crocker
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