On Jul 9, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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?) > > I don't know the answer to that question, but it's an interesting question. But the reason I reacted to John Klensin's message earlier the way I did is that I think that the question of how biased toward the company's goals a nomcom participant will be has a lot to do with the individual candidate. And large companies do seem to tend to snap up long-time influential IETF participants, so indeed it is likely that over time IETF knowledge will tend to concentrate in one large company or another. > > That being the case, the current two-person rule could as easily be argued to be damaging to the process as beneficial to it. I'm not making a claim either way, but I think that absent statistically valid data, this discussion is completely theoretical. Dear Ted, >From my experience, some projects have been thwarted through actions of a few companies. The direction taken ended up being doomed which may have been the ultimate goal and potentially represents a real fairness issue IMHO. Regards, Douglas Otis