Polling for feedback (Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again)))

[Lakshminath Dondeti <ldondeti at qualcomm.com>]

Hi,

In the current Nomcom, a few of us compiled lists of all WG contributors 
(chairs, advisers, current I-D editors and authors) within each area; 
and our Nomcom chair used a script to randomly select a subset from 
those lists, and then used a 2-step process to seek feedback.  The first 
was to ask each potential feedback provider whether he/she would agree 
to keep the list of candidates confidential, and the second to ask for 
feedback, with the option of providing it anonymously.

Sure the above process could be tweaked, but as it is does not result in 
Nomcoms going "only to IETF management people" for feedback.  Does it 
possibly exclude folks who are enthusiastic about providing feedback?  
Yes, but I think overall, it is quite fair.

I do think sending the candidate lists to ietf at ietf.org for feedback has 
the downside potential of everyone commenting on a few of the candidates 
or lists (i.e., areas).  That, if/when happens, is practically useless 
for 2 reasons: Nomcom doesn't get feedback on all lists, and a huge 
amount of feedback might be impossible to parse and compile for humans :-).

best regards,
Lakshminath

Dave Crocker wrote:

> In spite of the fact the nomcoms are diligent in doing polling for 
> information, there are significant biasing aspects to their sampling 
> method.  They pretty much go only to IETF management people.
>
>
>  

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