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

[Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>]

Or, from another point of view, you can consider the string comparison 
on the affiliations, as posted, to be part of the algorithm.

Thanks,
Donald

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Robert Elz wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:57:01 +1100
> From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
> To: Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
> Cc: ietf-nomcom <ietf-nomcom@lists.elistx.com>
> Subject: Re: guidance on avoiding too many people from one company/group
> 
>     Date:        Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:42:10 -0500 (EST)
>     From:        Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
>     Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211112230460.7667-100000@netbusters.com>
> 
>   | I guess it can't hurt to tell someone they were skipped due to two
>   | persons already having been chosen with their affiliation
> 
> It is actually necessary (or perhaps too obvious to need to be said?)
> 
> That is, the algorithm is supposed to be announced, the data upon which it
> is based is public, so anyone can run the algorithm and validate the output.
> 
> Doing that, everyone can see that X should have been chosen, and wasn't.
> 
> Then, you can either read that as "obvious, just look at the affiliations,
> and you'll see why", or as needing a statement "X was skipped because...".
> 
> kre
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