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Re: Registration/volunteer gap

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Sat, 13 August 2022 19:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Registration/volunteer gap
From: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:30:07 +0100
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To: John C Klensin <john@jck.com>
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Maybe your experience with the legal profession is different from mine. Perhaps it is another transatlantic thing:)

However three past chairs would be another possibility.

Stewart 

> On 12 Aug 2022, at 17:08, John C Klensin <john@jck.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, August 11, 2022 19:43 +0100 Stewart Bryant
> <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if we should not have a specialist group that run the
>> selection process on behalf of the chair so that the new chair
>> does not need to learn the details.
>> 
>> As the process is fully open, and can be overseen by the chair
>> I see no democratic risk.
>> 
>> Once the selection is made the specialist withdraw for 12
>> months.
>> 
>> The "team" could be volunteers, staff or a lawyer.
> 
> Offlist and with at least a partial apology for cynicism, but...
> 
> I see "fully open and overseen by the chair" and either staff or
> a hired (?) lawyer as being a bit contradictory.   That leaves
> us with volunteers and the obvious possibility --which would
> require very little change to the existing model-- would have
> that group consist of the chair and the most recent past chair
> (who are already Nomcom members), maybe adding an additional
> past chair if they concluded that was needed.
> 
> best,
>   john
>

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