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

> Il 08/07/2026 06:10 CEST S Moonesamy <[email protected]> ha scritto:
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> Hi Brian,
> At 04:55 PM 07-07-2026, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >Huh? The IESG and IAB positions require great technical competence.
> >They _also_ require various managerial and social skills
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>    1. The above requirement favours incumbents.  I have not looked into
>       whether, over time, it decreases the number of applicants for a
>       position.

This is why I did not say that you should always prefer the most competent and expert candidates, but rather that you need to set a minimum threshold of competence and experience, somewhere mid-way between "at their first IETF meeting" and "been here 20 years".

Also, in past Nomcoms I was part of in other organizations, this was often seen as an aggregate assessment, e.g. you had to select three people for the same board and you strived to pick a mix of insiders and outsiders, engineers and business people, Western and Southern, etc. It was rare to achieve balance under all dimensions, but you tried to get as many as possible.

This is also why I think that high level principles plus cultural commitment work better than hard quotas.

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