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Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-11 11:32:17
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:34:08AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The idea that we would not want to return to the current system sounds
like an argument against the status quo, rather than in favor of it.

Again, I don't have an opinion on the draft one way or the other, but
the above strikes me as relying on an equivocation.  That "we" does
not obviously pick out the same group across the time we're talking
about.  If some people who would otherwise be engaged stop
participating because of discomfort with a more political
campaign-style leadership process, then the people who will make the
rules in the later stage are not the same ones as those who will be
adopting this change.  Moreover, those who dislike those political
campaign-style processes are unlikely to participate in one when it is
required in order to change the rules, so even if they stick around
they're unlikely to have much influence in an effort to undo the
change we're contemplating.

A

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