FWIW, +1 On the one hand, I'm pleased that several organizations will give multiple of their employees the time and, where relevant, resource to participate. On the other, the alternative to broadening the diversity of the pool would be to create a new rule, e.g., that anyone on the Nomcom from a given company must be completely isolated from the process of considering any candidate from the same company (or, perhaps, its close affiliates). john --On Saturday, June 26, 2021 08:05 +0100 Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This has provided a statistical basis for my conclusion on > initially seeing this list. I imagine I am not alone. > > This Nomcom volunteer pool is insufficiently diverse. > > I think the chair needs to extend the time to volunteer and > encourage a more diverse pool. > > Normally the timeline is set by a need to physically meet at > the summer IETF, but that does not apply this year so there is > more time to make the selection.