Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

[Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm.com>]

At 7:00 PM -0400 6/22/07, John C Klensin wrote:

>  I believe that we should be selecting IESG and IAB members who
>  can and will exhibit very high levels of technical maturity and
>  breath, and consistent good judgment.   I believe that being
>  sufficiently mature and self-aware to avoid either substituting
>  one's own judgment for that of the community or imposing one's
>  personal preferences as a blocking requirement is a corollary of
>  that selection criterion.   If we cannot find enough people like
>  that, we should shrink the relevant bodies and, if necessary,
>  the amount of work the IETF tries to do, rather than trying to
>  get by on third-rate people.

I agree with John here, but I see problems with this in practice.  In 
particular, what to one person is clearly substituting one's own 
judgement or preference, is to another just showing good judgement. 
So it is hard to truly select such mature people, because the same 
person will appear to some as mature and to others as inappropriate.

One thing we can try to do is to have more clear criteria for 
exercise of discretion.  Not in the form of hard rules, but simply as 
more detailed guidance that we can hopefully update with experience. 
That makes it easier to determine if someone is abusing discretion.
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal;    facts are suspect;    I speak for myself only
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of
them to choose from.                  --Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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