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

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 13:22 Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> On 07-Jul-26 14:42, Joel Halpern wrote:
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> > In some sense, the structured part of the interview presumably starts
> with the common questionnaire.  I am not asking or suggesting that the
> questionnaire be tuned to the individual candidate.   But that is only the
> starting point.
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> I can certainly see why a common set of opening questions help to level
> the playing field. In fact it seems like the obvious thing to do anyway.
> However, the follow-up questions inevitably depend on the answers to the
> initial questions; anything else is a nonsense.
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Pertinent to the original questions and candidate response, yes of course.


> One other point while I'm here. The draft says:
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> >>> However it is best practice to resolve any doubt by directly asking
> the volunteer whether they identify as a member of the dominant gender.
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> Why? I would have thought it was best practice to *not* ask that question,
> ever, because it's irrelevant.
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Nomcom, not candidate.

-M

Brian
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