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Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Sat, 17 July 2010 15:48 UTC

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Folks,

Nomcom has been an integral part of the IETF for nearly 20 years.

A number of us have been developing a set of recommendations designed to adapt 
the Nomcom process to better match current realities of the IETF community.  The 
draft has progressed far enough to call for public consideration.

Some of the proposal's recommendations require no changes in formal rules.  They
can be adopted immediately, possibly by the current Nomcom, should it so choose.
Others require a formal development and approval cycle.

At:

      <http://www.bbiw.net/recent.html#nomcom2010>

there is a copy of the Full Proposal, and a Summary which primarily contains 
just the recommendations.


The proposal's Abstract is:

> Every year the IETF's Nominating Committee (Nomcom) reviews and selects half
> of the IETF's leadership on the IESG, IAB and IAOC/Trust. In the 18 years
> since the inception of the Nomcom process, the Internet industry and the IETF
> have gone through many changes in funding, participation and focus, but not
> in the basic formation, structure or operation of Nomcom. This paper explores
> challenges that have emerged in the conduct of Nomcom activities,
> particularly due to changing IETF demographics. The paper reviews the nature,
> causes and consequences of these challenges, and proposes a number of
> specific changes. The changes provide better communication of Nomcom
> institutional memory, enhance Nomcom membership expertise, and produce
> stronger confidentiality and etiquette practices among Nomcom participants.
> Some changes require formal modification to Nomcom rules; others can be
> adopted immediately.


Please feel free to discuss the proposal with any of the authors or folks listed
in the Acknowledgments section, or on this list.


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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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