Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

[Samuel Weiler <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, NomCom Chair wrote:

> I am pleased to report at this time we have 98 qualified individuals 
> who have generously volunteer their time to serve on this year's 
> NomCom.

Sorting that list by affiliation and counting the number of names from 
each affiliation, the volunteer list as of Monday included:

16 Huawai
15 Cisco
13 Ericsson
9 Juniper
5 ZTE
4 Nokia/Siemens (debatable; see details)
3 Alcatel-Lucent
3 BBN
3 China Mobile
3 CNNIC
2 Time Warner Cable
1 (22)
Total: 98

Observations: the top four companies on this list have contributed 
more than half of the NomCom volunteers.  The top three have 
contributed twice as many (44) as all of the entities that 
contributed only one (22).

Opinion: the NomCom would benefit from having many "independent" 
members.  While that could happen (yay, randomness), the odds here 
don't look great.

-- Sam


Footnote: I wasn't entirely sure which of the Nokia and Seimens 
entries (below) to combine.  I erred on the side of combining all of 
them, knowing that there's likely a strong argument to be made for 
some other treatment.  In any case, I don't think it will make much of 
a difference to the analysis.
Teemu Savolainen, Nokia
Jouni Korhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks
Mehmet Ersue, Nokia Siemens Networks
Andrew Hutton, Siemens Enterprise Communications