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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:24:40 -0400
From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com>
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, Mallory Knodel <mallory.knodel@nyu.edu>, "eligibility-discuss@ietf.org" <eligibility-discuss@ietf.org>
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I agree, I also think the "raise the number when the percentage of org membership reaches certain percentages" logic isn't necessary - when we reach that state, a higher number will be chosen on average automatically. The floor of 3 doesn't force the algorithm to only pick 3.

Bron.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, at 11:40, Salz, Rich wrote:
> I agree with Joel and others and feel that five is an overreach forcing gender parity in NomCom when it doesn’t exist in the overall body.
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