--On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 17:46 -0500 Ralph Droms
<rdroms(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:
Bob - depends on the meaning of "straw poll". Any vote that
results in an action should be restricted to the 10 voting
members. My understanding of "straw poll" is an opinion poll
that results in no direct action.
Ralph, had you said "...results in no action (direct or
indirect)", I would have completely agreed. But there are
lots of ways in which straw polls can be used to limit the range
of further discussions or selections, and, for those, I share
Bob's nervousness.
To be explicit about my concern here, rather than having it
sound like a lot of theory, while I have every reason to believe
that most, if not all, liaisons have behaved in an exemplary
fashion, a liaison from body X, to a nominating committee that
is selecting members of X, will have a tendency to either make
suggestions about job requirements that results in cloning of
the members of X or will have a tendency to axe-grind based on
personal experiences within X. Those two tendencies are
somewhat in tension with each other, maybe that is enough.
But, because we would like the nomcom process to be above
suspicion, being clear about the appropriate boundaries of
liaison behavior seems worth a little effort.
john
_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf