Selecting leadership for process issues

[RJ Atkinson]

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 15:35 America/Montreal, Harald Tveit 
Alvestrand wrote:
> --On mandag, desember 02, 2002 13:07:39 -0500 RJ Atkinson 
> <rja@extremenetworks.com> wrote:
>> It seems to me that because of its critical importance, this might be 
>> a
>> good topic for even broader community input (broader than the set of
>> folks on this list).
>>
> so are you suggesting a call for nominations, or a more wide-ranging 
> discussion of how we should pick the leader(s) of the effort?

I think the community should be fully informed about and have an 
opportunity
to object to the proposed approach for selecting the leader of the 
effort.

Separately, I think that opening the leader selection process to public
nominations would be healthy.

In detail, I think that one good approach is the one gih has mentioned,
where Nomcom, who are already collecting a lot of community input
(including input on perceived issues with the way IAB/IESG handle 
things),
make the choice based on usual open nominations -- but even for that 
approach,
the community should be asked for input and given a chance to object to 
the
approach, before picking that approach.  Other good approaches might 
also
exist.

Ran