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RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process

2006-09-15 05:12:09
    > From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s(_at_)rad(_dot_)com>

    > I am somewhat surprised that no-one has actually answered the question
    > why DO we use a noncom rather than open elections?

Acually, several people have. Fred Baker recently (13 Sep 2006 04:26:30) made
a post which made a very good analysis of this point, and one of mine
discussed it as well, early in the thread (5 Sep 2006 11:34:43).

There are a variety of reasons, above the one you cited (packing); my personal
favourite is one several people mentioned (less politics), but I think perhaps
the most useful one in practise is another one which I mentioned earlier:

    >> Rather than having everyone spend ten minutes on deciding who to
    >> select, a subset (which the random draw hopefully makes reasonably
    >> representative of the group as a whole) does a more in-depth and
    >> thought-through selection.

        Noel

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