Below....
At 07:44 PM 8/17/2012, Michael StJohns wrote:
Read section 10, 3rd paragraph of RFC3777.
The prior year's Chair may select a designee from a pool composed
of the voting
volunteers of the prior year's committee and all
prior Chairs if the Chair is unavailable.
If the prior year's
Chair is unavailable or is unable or unwilling to make such a
designation in a timely fashion, the Chair of the current year's
committee may select a
designee in consultation with the Internet
Society President.
So it's actually, the prior chair (first choice), any member of the prior
committee, or
any other prior chair.
Mike
Sorry - while I love the iPad, at times its painful to edit things correctly.
The original reference to "advisor" in the collection of members in the
original text is as above - the past chair or the chair's alternate selected as
above.
The other reference to the "any other advisors" you mention below is elsewhere
in 3777. So we were both fondling different parts of the same elephant....
With respect to the current edit of the text I'd make one more change to make
this clear:
The nominating committee is comprised of a Chair, ten
voting volunteers, the immediate past nominating
committee Chair
[or their alternate]
in an advisory capacity, plus liaisons
and optional additional advisor(s) as described in
Section 4 of RFC 3777.
Mike
On Aug 17, 2012, at 15:36, John C Klensin
<<mailto:john(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>john(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
--On Friday, August 17, 2012 15:30 -0400 Michael StJohns
<<mailto:mstjohns(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net>mstjohns(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net>
wrote:
The advisor is the Immediately previous chair, or a member of
the previous noncom designated by that chair if he/she
declines to serve or is otherwise unavailable.
That was what I thought until I reread 3777. It says that the
immediately previous chair serves as an advisor but also says
that the Nomcom can appoint any other advisors it feels like. I
assume that combination is part of where "at least" came from.
But Barry's new text gets rid of that odd and possibly confusing
way of stating things and is, IMO, a considerable improvement.
john