Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

[SM <[e-mail]>]

Hi Sam,
At 03:59 PM 8/1/2012, Samuel Weiler wrote:
>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.

Cisco has more authors than Huawei.  It's interesting to see four 
companies making up more than 44% of the volunteer list.  It was 
pointed out that there cannot be more than two NomCom members with 
the same affiliation.  There isn't anyone with a Google or Microsoft 
affiliation.  There is a person with an ICANN affiliation and one 
with an Internet Society affiliation (see discussion about 
draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility).

The odds of volunteers from companies at the top of the list being 
selected as a NomCom member is not that low.  One could look at 
NomCom as an exercise in randomness or one could look at it as an 
exercise in "let the market decide".

Regards,
-sm