Re: List of volunteers for the 2020-2021 NomCom

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 6/29/20 2:10 PM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Sure some come to IETF to represent and market their sponsor's solutions
> but those should be treated as incidents and controlled as early as
> possible. 

It's natural and desirable that people bring their companies'
technologies to the IETF, I think, if for no other reason that
we'd like to incentivize, I think, open technology/standards
and interoperability.

What we *don't* want is companies successfully gaming the
leadership selection process in a way that compromises the
quality of the IETF's output, or that favors a particular
technology on the basis of something other than technical merit.
IETF process needs to be as open as it can be without damaging
the organization itself, and this seems like a reasonable
and low-impact defense mechanism.  It's still the case that nomcom
members can and will be fierce advocates for appointing someone
from their own company, but by balancing nomcom membership there is, at
least, a builtin defense against appointing someone completely
unsuitable.

> So if I may I would recommend that if at all required - such limit is to
> be imposed to vendors only and never applied to operators or research
> organizations or academia. 

Oh, if only we had the problem of too many participants or volunteers
from operators or research organizations or academia ...

Melinda


-- 
Melinda Shore
[e-mail]

Software longa, hardware brevis