Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

[t.p. <[e-mail]>]

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From: "Samuel Weiler" <[e-mail]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:59 PM
>
> 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).

Looks like a fairly accurate reflection of the driving force behind most
of the I-Ds I see, in Areas such as Routing and Ops.

Whether NomCom should reflect the forces behind those I-Ds I am less
clear about.

Tom Petch

> 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