--On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 13:49 +0000 Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I find the presumption that IETF attendees employed by > companies that send large number of attendees are robots to be > somewhat distasteful. It also doesn't match my experience. > I am sure that _some_ attendees from large companies are just > as partisan as you fear, but some are not. So I am not > convinced that your proposal would have a good outcome. It was _not_ a proposal, merely an analysis of the numbers and an exploration of alternatives. I also didn't say "robots" or anything that could be reasonably construed as robots. I don't even have any experience that would lead to expect that a company would expect any selected Nomcom members to march in lockstep. I do note that the "no more than two people with the same primary affiliation" rule is part of RFC 3777 (BCP 10) and take that as an indication that the community was unhappy with at least the appearances of one company having more than 1/5 of Nomcom voting membership. That limit is not part of any proposal I or, to my knowledge, others have made recently. With regard to that limit, my analysis is merely an exploration of how the intent of that rule might best be satisfied. I'd welcome a discussion of whether the analysis is correct or not. You might reasonably believe that it is irrelevant. But, as far as disagreeing with a proposal or not, please wait until someone makes one (fwiw, it won't be me). john