Re: guidance on avoiding too many people from one company/group

[Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>]

On Monday, November 11, 2002 8:23 AM -0500,
Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> allegedly wrote:

> All too complicated. The simple proposal we got to last time
> around was:
>
> -each volunteer is required to state, when volunteering, who
>  his or her principal employer is;
> -when making the random selection, as soon as two people stating
>  the same principal employer have been picked, all others with
>  that principal employer are removed from the pool.
>
> In other words don't require judgement by the IETF about who
> the employer is, and don't waste cycles on corner cases such as
> subsidiaries or changes of employer. Let's just do something simple
> and algorithmic, to avoid major gaming of the process.

Keep the algorithm simple by leaving the corner cases to the discretion
of the NomCom chair, with accountability through sending a unicast
message to anyone rejected by this method.  "We took you off the list
because there were already two from X and your principal employer is a
wholly owned subsidiary of X."