Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 04:53:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What > > does the review of the PC hope to accomplish, anyways? > > Make sure it is not a marketing presentation or sales pitch. > Make sure that slides are reasonably clear and understandable. > Make sure that the topic h

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-28 Thread Sean Figgins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the review of the PC hope to accomplish, anyways? Make sure it is not a marketing presentation or sales pitch. Make sure that slides are reasonably clear and understandable. Make sure that the topic has not been thrashed to death. Make sure that the topic is r

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-28 Thread michael.dillon
> What > does the review of the PC hope to accomplish, anyways? Make sure it is not a marketing presentation or sales pitch. Make sure that slides are reasonably clear and understandable. Make sure that the topic has not been thrashed to death. Make sure that the topic is relevant to network op

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-28 Thread Sean Figgins
William B. Norton wrote: 2) people tend to specialize; they may be perfect to provide insightful data into a discussion on Network Planning, but not understand the Security futures issues enough to rank a slide deck. This is the reality of the situation and some PC members have dealt with that b

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Steve Gibbard wrote: So, in that vein, it seems to me that that the vagueness in the Program Committee member-removal text is ok. The Steering Committee is in charge, and if there's a desire to remove a member of the Program Committee, the procedure ought to be whatever t

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Proposal 2: Shall program committee members be permitted to skip rating presentation proposals that do not fall into their areas of expertise? Wording: Change the third paragraph of Section 8.3.2 as follows: Old version: "Each member o

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Feldman
On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In any case, I would think the committee should be able to remove its own members by voting them out for cause. If the cause is in the bylaws, then the process doesn't need to be there in every detail. And if a c

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
> The original intent seems to have been to provide a mandatory > participation bar, which would explain why it is coupled with the > 'meet too many meetings and you're out' portion. i believe all this is because, in the past, there was a problem with deadwood on the pc. i think the attempt to rel

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:22:10PM -0700, William B. Norton wrote: [snip] > I think the PC has a simple (but not necessarily easy) charge: > put together the content/agenda for NANOG. A charter doesn't > need to specify the how. I agree that micromanagement of the PC is a bad thing. The original

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote: The issue that arises from it is that there ought to be a requirement that if you are going to make a proposal, claim that you have support, etc. that we have names instead of broad statements like the one above. To clarify, the NANOG Charter says th

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: My comments are in line below. Regards, Mike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Abley > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:14 PM > To: nanog-futures Futures > Subject: proposed NANOG

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Lucy Lynch
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >by whom? pc chair? sc (which appointed them)? michael dillon? I think michael dillon is a fine choice. Vijay, it is rude to make fun of people who are showing their senility. Stop picking on Randy. In any case, I would think th

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread michael.dillon
> Each member of the Program Committee must review all > presentations submitted for each meeting. It doesn't say in what detail they must review it. Seems to be a good idea for every member to give every presentation a cursory review. Also seems to be a good idea for the committee to have d

RE: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread michael.dillon
> > by whom? pc chair? sc (which appointed them)? michael dillon? > I think michael dillon is a fine choice. Vijay, it is rude to make fun of people who are showing their senility. Stop picking on Randy. In any case, I would think the committee should be able to re

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
> The issue that arises from it is that there ought to be a requirement > that if you are going to make a proposal, claim that you have support, > etc. that we have names instead of broad statements like the one > above. not sure i have what you're getting at, not even sure which of the two propos

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 9/27/07, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Openness and transparency is what I hope to achieve by having this > > conversation here. I'm not withholding answers; I'm just not > > understanding the question :-) > > perhaps we need a charter amendment that says there will always be > someo

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
> Openness and transparency is what I hope to achieve by having this > conversation here. I'm not withholding answers; I'm just not > understanding the question :-) perhaps we need a charter amendment that says there will always be someone to blame. the actual problem/proposal itself is uninterest

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 27-Sep-2007, at 1719, Martin Hannigan wrote: On 9/27/07, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 27-Sep-2007, at 1716, Martin Hannigan wrote: The authors of these things should be identified in case we want to vote them out of whatever they were voted into. Could you be more specific?

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread William B. Norton
On 9/27/07, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It has also been suggested (as you allude) that this level of detail > is unnecessary micromanagement, and that a better approach is just to > strike the whole paragraph, and leave the PC to organise themselves > as they see fit. > > Opinions from

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 9/27/07, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27-Sep-2007, at 1716, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > The authors of these things should be identified in case we want to > > vote them out of whatever they were voted into. > > Could you be more specific? I'm not sure what "these things" means,

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
>> It has also been suggested (as you allude) that this level of detail >> is unnecessary micromanagement, and that a better approach is just to >> strike the whole paragraph, and leave the PC to organise themselves >> as they see fit. > The authors of these things should be identified in case we w

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 27-Sep-2007, at 1716, Martin Hannigan wrote: The authors of these things should be identified in case we want to vote them out of whatever they were voted into. Could you be more specific? I'm not sure what "these things" means, in this context. Joe

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 9/27/07, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27-Sep-2007, at 1618, Randy Bush wrote: > > > if we need this level of detail, then > > Thanks, Randy. > > It has also been suggested (as you allude) that this level of detail > is unnecessary micromanagement, and that a better approach is jus

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread vijay gill
On 9/27/07, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if we need this level of detail, then > > > New version: "Each member of the Program Committee must review all > > presentations submitted for each meeting and rate those presentations > > which fall into their areas of expertise. The Chair may

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 27-Sep-2007, at 1618, Randy Bush wrote: if we need this level of detail, then Thanks, Randy. It has also been suggested (as you allude) that this level of detail is unnecessary micromanagement, and that a better approach is just to strike the whole paragraph, and leave the PC to organ

Re: proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
if we need this level of detail, then > New version: "Each member of the Program Committee must review all > presentations submitted for each meeting and rate those presentations > which fall into their areas of expertise. The Chair may excuse a ^ and for

proposed NANOG charter amendments

2007-09-27 Thread Joe Abley
Hi all, The NANOG SC is considering two proposals to modify the NANOG charter. The SC would like to hear feedback from the community on these, to help us form the precise text that will appear on the ballot for people to vote on in New Mexico. The following were kindly collated and drafte