On 7/30/10 9:46 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Mary Barnes wrote: > >> Just to add my two cents to this discussion from a (past) noncom chair >> perpsective, having more experienced IETF participants on the Nomcom helps >> tremendously. It makes it far easier for the noncom chair and non-voting >> members (previous nomcom chair and liaisons) to stick to the roles as >> specified in RFC 3777 in terms of facilitatng and ensuring the integrity of >> the process and not influencing the decisions of the nomcom. In the end, >> each voting member gets one vote (using a methodology agreed by the voting >> members), so the positives of ensuring the nomcom has experienced members >> far outweigh any perceived negatives in my experience. >> > > I was discussing this with various people yesterday - maybe it would be > useful to have a "moving average" NOMCOM, with a two year term, and 50% > replacement each year. Once that was set up, I think that the need for > experienced hands would diminish - one year on the NOMCOM seems to be quite a > bit of experience.
I don't think Mary is talking about members with previous nomcom experience but rather more IETF experience. I agree. In fact, why should we have nomcom members with little IETF experience picking our leadership? --aaron _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
