I think the criteria will need to be extended to include primary authors of active internet-drafts. If you care enough about the IETF to have actively submitted a draft in the last six months (and I do!), then you care about nomcom. Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx > On 27 Jun 2021, at 07:12, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This year we have 112 volunteers, under the experimental criteria of RFC8989. Those are > > a) registered attendance at 3 of IETFs 106, 107, 108, 109, and 110. > OR > b) being a recent WG Chair or Secretary or RFC author. > > Thus, we got fewer volunteers despite substantially broadening the criteria to include many more people.