At 08:50 AM 3/6/2013, Jari Arkko wrote:
I didn't want to imply that we necessarily couple the actions we take.
I agree of course that right now we have an issue to solve. I agree that we
should do whatever to complete the current process, and that waiting for a
reorganisation would be a bad idea.
However, given that I feel that I've been through varying levels of similar
issues for last couple of years, I would also like to ensure that we do
something more permanent.
Once upon a time we contemplated allowing the Nomcom - in rare circumstances -
to nominate someone for a short term of 1 year (e.g. probation). This was part
of the discussion some 13-16 years ago when we were expanding the IESG and
dealing with some term imbalances and trying to figure out whether giving
someone a 3 year term to even out the number of nominees per year was what we
should be doing.
Unfortunately, while the 3 year term stuff made it into 3777, the 1 year term
stuff didn't. It's too bad as it may have been a useful option here (or not -
I haven't reviewed the list of transport AD candidates).
I would suggest that it's probably time to re-convene the "how do we select
people" working group. Given the number of issues - recall, IAOC, this,
ineligible others - we've encountered lately, I don't think just cutting and
pasting a new RFC over 3777 to patch holes makes sense.
Mike