Thanks, Mary.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Barnes [mailto:mary(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:40 AM
To: Eric Gray
Cc: John C Klensin; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD
Importance: High
Eric,
You are describing the process of IAB selection as opposed to IESG selection
for ensuring there is someone that is a potential chair.
The IAB voting members select the IAB chair. The IESG members do not select
the IETF chair.
Regards,
Mary.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Eric Gray
<eric(_dot_)gray(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com> wrote:
John,
I considered this before making my reply, especially in light
of a number of recent events with which I am intimately familiar.
To become the Chair of the IESG involves a second level of
selection that is much more political. You have to be selected - I believe -
for the role by your peers on the IESG.
This then is a matter for the IESG, more than the NomCom, or the IETF as a
whole.
This is - I feel sure - one of the things that a NomCom has to
consider in picking folks for IESG membership: there needs to be at
least one AD on the IESG that is both willing and able to take on this role.
But - let's face it - this should be obvious to any reasonably
competent NomCom that is having to replace an outgoing Chair.
But it is most definitely NOT something that every AD has to be
prepared to do...
--
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:22 AM
To: Eric Gray
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD
Importance: High
--On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 14:16 +0000 Eric Gray
<eric(_dot_)gray(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com> wrote:
...
So far, it has not been any part of the normal duties of an
IESG member or AD to hold press conferences, glad-handing with the
masses, baby kissing, etc.
...
I can't speak to baby kissing but the above statement is true only if you
exclude the IETF Chair from "IESG member or AD".
Perhaps we could change it if we really wanted to, but we should face the
fact --and I hope that Nomcoms understand-- that the IETF Chair role has
expanded to include a great deal of public representation of the IETF and,
indeed, public politics.
john