Re: PROPOSED GUIDELINE: balance

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

No, we're talking about balance on the IAB in particular.

   Brian

Matt Holdrege wrote:
> 
> At 12:11 AM 4/4/2002, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm sorry Brian, I missed something. What is the international question
> > that
> > > some NomComs have overlooked?
> >
> >Having a reasonable number of people from outside North America on board.
> 
> But the random process of selection insures that no country will be
> favored. Of course if the majority of volunteers is from North America...
> 
> I understand the problem and dearly sympathize with it, but any change to
> the random nature of selection would not be good. Heck, maybe someday we'll
> have a randomly picked nomcom with the majority from outside the U.S.