Re: draft-ietf-poised-nomcomm-00.txt

[Frank Kastenholz <[e-mail]>]

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.

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