> On Oct 9, 2021, at 5:58 PM, Scott Leibrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Has ARIN disclosed anything about why the NomCom chose to exclude two > obviously-qualified candidates from the ballot when they didn’t yet have 2 > candidates per open seat, and the 3 candidates they did include are all less > well-known to the community than both the ones they excluded? > I can hypothesize some possible reasons, but none of them would reflect well > on the NomCom, so I am reluctant to do so without learning their stated > reason(s).
Well, that’s the thing about a black-box process. The good thing is that it’s
more insulated from public pressure; the bad thing is that you don’t get to
attack their reasoning if you don’t like the result, since that’s inside the
black box. So I don’t think it makes sense to try to hypothesize about their
reasons, just as I don’t think you’re going to wind up hearing what their
reasons were.
It’s perfectly sufficient to disagree with the outcome, and that’s why we have
a petition process: so that a black-box nomcom won’t be the final word on what
happens. So, go participate in the petition process. The “why” of it doesn’t
matter, just what you do matters.
-Bill
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