At 7:00 PM -0400 6/22/07, John C Klensin wrote:
I believe that we should be selecting IESG and IAB members who
can and will exhibit very high levels of technical maturity and
breath, and consistent good judgment. I believe that being
sufficiently mature and self-aware to avoid either substituting
one's own judgment for that of the community or imposing one's
personal preferences as a blocking requirement is a corollary of
that selection criterion. If we cannot find enough people like
that, we should shrink the relevant bodies and, if necessary,
the amount of work the IETF tries to do, rather than trying to
get by on third-rate people.
I agree with John here, but I see problems with this in practice. In
particular, what to one person is clearly substituting one's own
judgement or preference, is to another just showing good judgement.
So it is hard to truly select such mature people, because the same
person will appear to some as mature and to others as inappropriate.
One thing we can try to do is to have more clear criteria for
exercise of discretion. Not in the form of hard rules, but simply as
more detailed guidance that we can hopefully update with experience.
That makes it easier to determine if someone is abusing discretion.
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of
them to choose from. --Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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