On 03/17/2013 04:48 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Sunday, March 17, 2013 15:52 -0700 Doug Barton
<dougb(_at_)dougbarton(_dot_)us> wrote:
On 03/17/2013 08:20 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
If the
confirming body knows things about a candidate that were not
available to the Nomcom, then it should apply that knowledge.
And, if the confirming body sees something in whatever the
Nomcom chooses to tell it about qualifications/expectations
that seems wrong (e.g., criteria that would permit selecting
only an incumbent or other single candidate), then it should
respond with vigor.
I agree with you in principle, but if members of the
confirming body have this knowledge, shouldn't they share it
with the nomcom early in the process? Such as when the nomcom
sends out the periodic messages along the lines of, "Here's
who we are considering, please speak your piece about them."
So it seems more a matter of, "Confirming body should act in
those cases where the nomcom chose to disregard negative
information about a candidate already provided to it."
In principle, yes. But the confirming body can't know exactly
what information the nomcom has been given unless it came from
one of its members. And forcing those people to disclose what
they told the Nomcom just because they are members of the
confirming body would seem to violate several other principles.
So, in practice, the cases I used as examples and your
description above may not be much different.
Fair enough.
Doug