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RE: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-11 08:25:37

=> With all due respect to those people, I think it's a shame
they feel like that. It seems like the selection decision 
is perceived
as a personal judgement by those people. Good people may not 
get selected for a million reasons. I hate making blanket 
judgements
but this kind of attitude is probably not a healthy attitude for 
an AD-to-be. 

But there is another issue. When someone asks their employer for
agreement to be a candidate, the employer may worry about the PR
impact. Imagine:

    "Flarion employee passed over for prestigious IETF job; major
     competitor chosen instead"

So the candidate's personal attitude may not come into it at all.

=> I thought we were all participating as people not on behalf of 
our companies :) 
You're right of course, some companies can be embarrased by this. Not
that it will result in a drop in share price (we're far from being
that important). There is a worse outcome too, a company might react
to the above incident by trying to influence (one way or another) to
get its employee in this position next time. So there is some cultural
improvements that will need to go with our process. And just as importantly,
we'll need objective behaviour from all parties involved. 
But in the absence of all that, no process will be useful IMO. The difference
is, in one case (today) it's a secret, and in the other it's out in the 
open. 

Hesham



     Brian



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