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

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

Scott W Brim wrote:
> 
> 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."

As long as our lawyer is happy with any liability that might create, sure.

   Brian