At 05:15 PM 10/10/2014, Barry Leiba wrote:
Just a point of fact:
You need to read it all. Regular candidates serve a 2 or 3 year
appointment. Mid-term vacancy fillers serve between 1 to three years
depending on when the vacancy occurs. AFAIK we've never made a normal
vacancy 1 year appointment.
We did it on the IESG when we created the RAI area in 2006: Jon
Peterson was appointed RAI AD for a one-year term, and Lars Eggert was
give a one-year term in TSV to fill the mid-term vacancy.
We did it on the IAB when we appointed Eliot Lear for a second
one-year term in 2014 (his first one-year term was to fill the
mid-term vacancy created when Jari became IETF Chair in 2013).
Barry
Interesting... I didn't catch that last one at the time. I'm not quite sure
why the Nomcom didn't follow the rules and appoint someone to a three year
catch up term instead of just giving Eliot a 1 year term. Actually, I'm not
sure why the previous Nomcom didn't give Eliot a 2 year term in the first place
- that would have solved the rebalancing thing then. (Hmm... ok, maybe the
rule about poaching IAB members needs clarification again - it doesn't exactly
fit the mid-term vacancy rules)
All of this is water under the bridge, but I do remember the topic of short
terms being hotly debated during 3777's creation and soundly rejected resulting
in the rule as written.
No worries - Mike