Re: I-D Action: draft-rsalz-termlimits-00.txt

[Mary B <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 4:25 PM Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) <
[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On 10/26/21, 1:22 PM, "ietf on behalf of Mary B" <[e-mail]
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> Exactly.   The Nomcom can't make good decisions unless we get good
> feedback from the community and in my experience a small percentage of the
> community provides feedback.  We've had many discussions as to how this
> list doesn't necessarily reflect overall community consensus, so Nomcom
> should not be expected to consider this as input to the process (IMHO).
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> My personal opinion (Nomcom voting member hat off) is that If we actually
> had lots of volunteers for these positions, then I'd absolutely support the
> notion of ensuring folks didn't move from IESG to IAB (which is the most
> common path I think) and so forth.  However, we don't have sufficient
> resources in the community that are willing and able to serve in these
> roles as is IMHO.  This will only make that problem worse.  And,
> personally, I think we had two  great IETF chairs that each served 3
> terms.  So, it's not clear to me we're solving a real problem with these
> proposals.
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> On the IESG->IAB path, I’ll offer the observation that it has been such a
> common migration path that many in the community may actually have come to
> believe that it’s how one qualifies for the IAB, as if the IAB were in
> effect the IESG Emeritus.    I know that is not the case but that doesn’t
> mean people don’t perceive it that way.
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[MB] So, current IAB is 25% ex-IESG and I did a rough count of IAB members
over the past 20 years and it's been about 30% overall.  And, that number
would be a smaller fraction of the overall number of folks that have been
ADs.  [/MB]

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> It’s not unlikely that we’ve lost many good prospective IAB candidates to
> self-pruning because they have observed the IESG->IAB flow and believe that
> it’s a requirement and they don’t meet it since they haven’t been an AD.
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[MB] We don't have all the past list of nominees to see how many have been
ex-ADs over time, but you can look at this year's list and see that only 3
of the 14 nominees are ex-ADs.  And, we'd love to get feedback on these
nominees  ;)  https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2021/feedback/    [/MB]

> -glenn
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