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

[Mary B <[e-mail]>]

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On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 2:13 PM Brian E Carpenter <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 14-Feb-22 19:34, Eliot Lear wrote:
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> > How important is the chair role?  [I honestly have no idea.]
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> Very important, I would say. A fair, conscientious and proactive chair
> is necessary, and we've been very fortunate over the years. In other
> words, the undefined process has worked pretty well, although I
> fully understand Andrew's concerns.
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> The insider bias risk is considerably reduced by the fact that the
> NomCom chair is non-voting.
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> On 15-Feb-22 03:04, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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> >> I suspect that in reality the only way to get good candidate>> is to
> nicely ask a number of likely people and hope that one will say yes.
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> > That's the process we have now, and it has the obvious problem
> > that it depends on the Internet Society President (at present, me)
> > having a good list of "likely people".  Populating that list is
> > what I'm trying to do.
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> A public call for candidates seems reasonable. I am however rather
> concerned by the idea of a published list and call for comments.
> I can imagine a variety of unfortunate side effects of this,
> some of which might undermine the eventual chair's neutrality.
> I'd advise against for the first year, until the effect of a
> public call for candidates is known.
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>      Brian Carpenter
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