Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

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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


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