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

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:02:02PM +0100, Toerless Eckert wrote:

>a) I could not figure out from the draft or this mail thread under which
>   track you want this document to become an RFC.

I don't even know that it should become an RFC, so "which track" is
premature.  But it could never be more than Informational anyway.

>c.1) It is unclear to me why we would want these rules to apply to
>   every ISOC President.

I don't have any expectation that it would be possible for me to make
rules for successors in my job.  They'll do what they want.  If the
community decided to make rules in the actual NomCom procedures that'd
be different; but if the community wanted to change those procedures
and tried to bind the Internet Society President too tightly I'd
suggest gently that it would be unwise, since there wouldn't be
anything the community could do if the Internet Society President
didn't comply.

>   I for once could see this perfectly well simply
>   as a declaration by you, outlining the process you will follow.

That's all I intend this to be.

>   Aka: i see nothing in the existing RFCs prohibiting the mooting.

No, I agree.  I think it is important to document that I plan to do
this mostly so that this very conversation can happen, because it is
certainly a violation of the long practice.  As many of us know, in
the IETF arena (and also the Internet Society one), "It's always been
done that way," is often not treated as a fallacy and often instead as
a valid form of argument.  I think just going ahead and making a
change without any discussion is a way for me to get a lot of angry
mail, and I don't need to invent new ways for that to happen :D

Best regards,

A

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