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

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Sat, 23 October 2021 18:23 UTC

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:23:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-rsalz-termlimits-00.txt
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:33 PM Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, this is a bad idea that was repeatedly rejected in the past.
>
> Why? Because it's always hard to fill all the positions, and this would
> make it harder.
>
> If someone is incompetent, NomCom will not reappoint them even once, let
> alone twice.
>

The problem with tenure isn't competence. Nobody objected to FDR's
competence.

The problem is concentration of power and the ossification of particular
points of view
which are not necessarily as well founded as the holder imagines.

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