Re: draft-ietf-poised-nomcomm-00.txt
Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com> Thu, 21 April 1994 17:54 UTC
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From: Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com>
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I have 2 comments on the draft: > 2. Overview of the Process > > Members of the IAB and IESG serve two year terms. Each year, one half > of these positions expire, This could be interpreted many ways. One possible interpretation is that interim appointments would be less than 2 years in length. I recall that any appointment would always be for two years, regardless of when in the cycle you actually get appointed and not to fill the 'unexpired' term of the person you replace. For example, John Klensin got appointed to the IESG last summer (if I recall right). His term would then be up two years later, in the summer of 95. The idea was that bringing in new people, and the load on the nom. committees would be smeared out over the course of the year, eliminating large discontinuities and impulse loads. Section 3.2 and section 4 indicate that the NOMCOM takes a vote on the people whom it nominates, and that the 'confirmation bodies' (ISOC, IAB) also vote on the nominees (with simple majorities being needed for approval). I believe that when we put this system together, we discussed these matters and decided to leave it up to the various bodies as to how they would go about fulfilling their assigned roles. (aside: in general, I believe that we quite often wanted to put as little an amount of 'system' in place as we could lest we turn ourselves into lawyers, citing rules and subrules and all that). Neither of these are 'critical' matters and ought not be considered as 'negative' comments on the draft but rather, that my recollections of two years ago don't completely agree with what is in the draft. -- Frank Kastenholz FTP Software 2 High Street North Andover, Mass. USA 01845 (508)685-4000
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