At 12:37 PM 9/5/2006, Jari Arkko wrote:
Phillip,
>Consider the following situation, imagine that there is a vacancy
for a security area director, consider further that I wish for
nefarious reasons to secure the nomination of a particular
candidate which left to its own devices the NOMCON would be
unlikely to choose. The first step in such a campaign would be to
draw up a matrix of the members of the NOMCON, the people who they
are most likely to respond to etc. It is unlikely that I need more
than four people prominent in the Security world to make a
concerted recommendation in favor of my candidate. I could do this
without speaking to any member of the NOMCON myself.
>
>If you were a member of the NOMCON trying to fill a hard to fill
post such as Security or Routing and you had a series of people
prominent in the area come to you recommending a particular
candidate the chances are that you would follow the recommendation.
>
>
I'm not saying there is nothing in the Nomcom process that couldn't
be improved, but in the above you are not giving enough credit for
the folks in Nomcom. Remember that they are working hard to
get a lot of input. (According to the slides from IETF-65 plenary,
the last Nomcom sent out 1850 requests for feedback.) I'm sure
What might also be interesting to note was that the return rate was
very low. I don't recall the exact numbers, but after ruling out
variants of "I don't know the person" and single-word or single-line
responses, there were cases where I was left with only a handful of
opinions to go by. In some cases, a single negative opinion weighed
heavily in the discussions.
Perhaps if the feedback portal is open to all, future nomcoms might
get more useful feedback?
Lakshminath
they will also evaluate the input based on context, e.g.,
recommendations by colleagues from the same company vs.
others, very different recommendations from different people,
people who have worked with the candidate in the IETF vs.
others, etc.
--Jari
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