Re: Selection Process

["Barry M. Leiner" <[e-mail]>]

Frank,

It is on this very point that I have great difficulty. The argument made
for a random nominating/selection committee is that it can get help from
others. But starting out with a committee formed from that basis means
that the number of people involved in the selection process grows large.
This raises a very serious problem of maintaining confidentiality.

Having gone through a selection process several times for the IAB, I can
assure you that maintaining confidentiality and assessing consensus
simultaneously is no easy feat.

Barry

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>  > I'm a little less clear on having 2 IAB and 2 IESG act as liaisons.  I
>  > raised this point several times and the initial reaction I got from
>  > several people was that 4 "old boys" could unduly influence the
>  > committee.
> 
> The Nominating Committee could certainly ask for help -- if it deemed it
> necessary -- from other people. This help could be in the form of information
> ("What do you think about so-and-so?") or it could be procedural in nature,
> or it could be of the form "Help us convince so-and-so to be on the IAB".
> 
> These "helpers" would obviously operate under the constraints of the
> nominating committee as a whole. They would not, however, be a part of
> the actual decision -- in effect they would be like the judge, lawyers
> and witnesses in an American trial.
> 
> --
> Frank Kastenholz
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