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Re: Separate ADs roles from IESG - draft-klensin-stds-review-panel-00

2013-10-21 11:14:50
Hi Phillip,
At 04:08 21-10-2013, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The three questions of power:

1 How did you get it?

The persons are selected by NomCom.

2 For whose benefit do you use it?

Each person has his/her own motivation. A person can do it for money. A person can do it to look important. A person can do it for other reasons.

3 How do we get rid of you?

It could be through a Recall petition.

Unless there are satisfactory answers to 1 and 3, the answer to 2 is going to always be unacceptable. Concentrating decision making power in yet another unelected, unaccountable body is not viable.

An election is a popularity contest. It is possible to have accountability without resorting to popularity contests.

Regards,
-sm