Re: [ietf-nomcom] Confidentiality and information from former NomCom members

[John C Klensin <john at jck.com>]

--On Wednesday, June 03, 2009 09:01 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern"
<jmh at joelhalpern.com> wrote:

> I don't read things the same way you do.
> I don't think someone who was on nomcom A and is now on nomcom
> B can tell B "nomcom A, in discussing person X, found major
> problem Y."  Nor, in fact, can they relay any other aspects of
> the discussion within nomcom A to nomcom B.
> They can say "Personally, I have problem Y with person X."
> There are of course multiple gray areas in between.
> 
> Assuming that my reading is accurate, I would also prefer not
> to change that.  (To take an extreme example, I have a fairly
> good archive of last year's nomcom.  As far as I am concerned
> I can not, and should not be allowed to, forward that archive
> to Mary, or to her committee, even though I am an advisor to
> that committee and presumably allowed to provide personally
> known factual information to that committee.)

+1.

I think that previous nomcom chairs and participants can share
information about the general criteria and processes that
previous Nomcoms used to inform their decisions --as long as
that is done factually and without implication that the
new/current Nomcom is obligated to do things the same way-- but
not any information about candidates or candidate evaluations.

    john