Re: Comments on Composition and Comportment of the IETF Nominating Committee draft

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 01:11 S Moonesamy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mallory,
> At 05:13 AM 06-07-2026, Mallory Knodel wrote:
>
>
> >I'm not sure I remember. Could you elaborate this comment please?
>
> It's in RFC 7704 (Page 4).
>

Incredible. Thanks a lot for sharing this. I’ll cite it in the next
version.


> >Disclosure of interest to the chair, who then decides if there's a
> >conflict. Simple recusal.
>
> It could be a bit more complicated than that.
>

Certainly but I don’t know if the document can or should try to encompass
the complexity or simply describe a process for addressing it.

I am open to text suggestions that better elaborate this and any of the
comportment sections.


> >It's here. I've edited the main copy.
> ><
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hbr.org_2016_04_how-2Dto-2Dtake-2Dthe-2Dbias-2Dout-2Dof-2Dinterviews&d=DwIBAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=krANNudPSfUTEf2kXiduBUqRjXhDsKNCASr1kibHLfs&m=YIrtQwrRtb_e31ldkUQjV6tcWTEcpf5fCSgJN5EFLRkjqZ3pHWlqlpLKxKQuPKb-&s=MBhR2Q0q-JMD3j71Sm58-ZD61u61e_r2AQAlRgDPkEI&e=
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hbr.org_2016_04_how-2Dto-2Dtake-2Dthe-2Dbias-2Dout-2Dof-2Dinterviews&d=DwIBAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=krANNudPSfUTEf2kXiduBUqRjXhDsKNCASr1kibHLfs&m=YIrtQwrRtb_e31ldkUQjV6tcWTEcpf5fCSgJN5EFLRkjqZ3pHWlqlpLKxKQuPKb-&s=MBhR2Q0q-JMD3j71Sm58-ZD61u61e_r2AQAlRgDPkEI&e=
>
> Thanks.  The answers to the questions would not be relevant in my opinion.
>

Fair. My thinking was to provide some authoritative example of how industry
thinks about this. I’m open to citing a better and more relevant
publication.

Thanks,
-Mallory