Re: List of volunteers for the 2021-2022 NomCom

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

On 6/27/2021 9:41 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2021-06-28, at 03:21, John C Klensin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> how
>> much bigger we would need to make the pool to overcome the
>> number of volunteers from that company, i.e., to make their
>> fraction of the volunteers small enough relative to the total to
>> significantly reduce the chances of their ending up with two
>> Nomcom members.
> Easy: randomly (*) select 10 companies (clusters) making up the nomcom, and then randomly select one volunteer from each company.
>
> Let’s see how well this process proposal goes :-)
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
> (*) OK, you get to choose the exact way this randomness works, and that may include weighting by number of volunteers.  So we may still have a way to make sure there is enough big-company representation in the nomcom.
>
As Brian point out in a different message, we probably can't/shouldn't 
do this in the current pass.  But it would be useful to gather a few 
different models and consider them for the next.

Your model has the benefit of simplicity and fixes some structural 
issues of having as many as 4 Nomcom participants (2 voting members, 
liaisons and chair) from a single company.  That said, it means that 
people from large companies are substantially less likely to be selected.

Another possibility is to change the size of the Nomcom while keeping 
the 2 per company limits.  20 Members for example.  That would dilute 
the influence of the larger companies while still allowing for a 
reasonable amount of participation from them. Given that the Nomcom is 
now doing a larger number of selections per year, an increase in size 
might be warranted.  That would require a bit of cat herding on the part 
of the Nomcom chair and might suggest the need for sub chairs for the 
various organizations with vacancies. (e.g. IAB, IESG, Other... ).

There's the other model I've suggested a few times but won't repeat 
here.  And I'm sure we can find a few more...

Mike