On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:31 AM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > if one wanted to minimize > the odds of organizations trying to game the nomcom selection > process, it would be rational to do a two step draw, first > randomly selecting two volunteers from any organization offering > more than two and then including only those two in the final > selection process. On the other hand, that would give you > around 81 candidates for the final selection this year. If > running the final selection against order 140 people rather than > order 81 causes the community to believe that it has a better > sample, then that option probably would not be appropriate. The sample is better at 140 if individuals represent themselves, but not if they are swayed by their organizational affiliation, and organization is now a significant factor in what we can expect from volunteers -- not all, but even some of those from organizations where the volunteers are long time participants. I support this idea. I think the gain is greater than the loss, and it even fosters diversity.