On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Should we consider changing it to "not more than one" in view >> of today's data? > > > > On it's face, that sounds like an absolutely Draconian rule. > > However stepping back a bit, it should prompt a simple question: Is the > IETF so reliant on a tiny number of companies that we cannot produce viable > committees if we require each member of a committee to be affiliated with a > different company? > > In other words, are we really incapable of requiring extensive corporate > diversity? Is the great majority of the wisdom in the IETF incorporated into a few megacorporations? (That might reflect market share, in which case, is it a problem?)