----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Weiler" <weiler@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:59 PM > > 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). Looks like a fairly accurate reflection of the driving force behind most of the I-Ds I see, in Areas such as Routing and Ops. Whether NomCom should reflect the forces behind those I-Ds I am less clear about. Tom Petch > Opinion: the NomCom would benefit from having many "independent" > members. While that could happen (yay, randomness), the odds here > don't look great. > > -- Sam > > Footnote: I wasn't entirely sure which of the Nokia and Seimens > entries (below) to combine. I erred on the side of combining all of > them, knowing that there's likely a strong argument to be made for > some other treatment. In any case, I don't think it will make much of > a difference to the analysis. > Teemu Savolainen, Nokia > Jouni Korhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks > Mehmet Ersue, Nokia Siemens Networks > Andrew Hutton, Siemens Enterprise Communications