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

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Brian,

> On Feb 16, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On 17-Feb-22 06:10, Donald Eastlake wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:06 PM Michael Richardson
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>     > Unless I missed it, I think there is no prohibition in this against
>>>     > picking a former NomCom Chair. I'm pretty sure that has never been
>>>     > done and I think it should be prohibited.
>>> 
>>> Why should we prohibit this?
>>> We have 23+ experienced nomcom chairs, some of whom might be retired now and
>>> available.   It's not like it's a voting position.
>> So you would be fine with someone being NomCom chair for 3 or 4 years
>> in a row? Should we just find someone good at it and make them
>> permanent NomCom Chair?
>> I think having fresh eyes, having the Chair and previous Chair be
>> different people, etc., is a good thing. I've been a NomCom Chair and
>> have been a voting member multiple times. In my opinion, the Chair has
>> a lot of subtle influence. Maybe prohibiting anyone from serving in
>> that position twice is too harsh but it should be a good long while
>> before they could be Chair again, like maybe 10 years.
> 
> Ten years is a long time, unnecessarily long IMHO. I think a two year
> stand down would be enough; and it seems implausible that anybody would
> be willing to repeat so soon anyway.

I think two years isn’t enough, given current practice is that the previous years chair in usually on the NOMCOM as an advisor for the next year.

I do agree that it is implausible that anyone would want to serve again so soon.

Bob