Re: List of volunteers for the 2020-2021 NomCom

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

My take on the affiliation rule is substantially different. I see it more
as a protection for the members of the NOMCON.

To have three employees appointed to NOMCON, it is overwhelmingly likely
that a company had a large number of people volunteer which means that they
have a large number attending IETFs. So either they are an entryist faction
(see Sick Puppies / Worldcon) or they are doing a lot of IETF work in which
case they likely have a lot of employees being considered for IESG and IAB.

Now consider the case in which the X-co dominated NOMCON chooses the X-co
employee over someone else in a contentious position. They are going to be
accused of doing it because they are biased. Or maybe they decide not to
out of concern that they are accused of bias.

A preponderance of members from one company creates a no win position for
all the NOMCON members and it should therefore be avoided.