On 16/09/2014 09:46, Dave Crocker wrote: > 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. So how would you modify the assertion in quotes, which is already untrue with the 2 per company rule? > Real and substantial diversity is essential. Agreed. That wasn't my point, though. Brian > > 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/ >