On 9/15/2014 2:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > The worst case, which is not a fantasy, is that 5 large companies encourage > their staff to volunteer, so we end up with 5 pairs of large-company > staff and nobody from the rest of the community. But (as Mike seems to > imply) if we put in rules to make this impossible, we'd be even further > from "each eligible volunteer is equally likely to be selected." > So this does need clarity of intent, one way or the other. Make it max 1 per company. Real and substantial diversity is essential. If we cannot get an adequate nomcom on that basis, we've got bigger problems and nomcom selection isn't the place to try to solve it. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net