Re: Now there seems to be lack of communicaiton here...

On Thursday, August 31, 2006 06:43:53 AM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:
> Furthermore the absence of a complaint makes things worse not better.
Phill, I can assure you from personal knowledge that at least one complaint 
_was_ made.  As Brian noted, Andrew took action to correct the issue before 
the formal dispute resolution process was invoked.  And before you ask, no, 
I will not tell you who made the complaint, but I will say that I was not 
consulted on the issue of how to fix the problem, and that I don't believe 
the complaintant I know about was consulted either.

Given the nature of the complaint (that a volunteer was ineligible), I 
believe there were two reasonable courses of action.  One is to remove the 
name from the list before running the random process, and the other is to 
run the process with the name, but discard any selection of that name.
If the error had been discovered before the random data became available, 
the first choice would have been the obvious one.  However, it was not, and 
the situation is complicated by the fact that the list of volunteers did 
not become available in time for anyone to challenge eligibility prior to 
the random data becoming available.  Even before the error in the list was 
discovered, I considered complaining about the timing issue and suggesting 
the remedy of running the process with new random data that would not 
become available before people had a chance to object (in other words, the 
same remedy that Andrew ended up applying).

If you or anyone else feels that there is a problem, the correct course of 
action as described by RFC 3777 is to bring the issue to the nomcom chair 
and then, if the situation is not resolved to your satisfaction, take it to 
the ISOC President as a formal dispute.  Nowhere does RFC 3777 suggest that 
a suitable remedy is to complain on a public mailing list that you were not 
personally consulted.
-- Jeff

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