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