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

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

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:12 PM -0500,
Christian Huitema <huitema@windows.microsoft.com> allegedly wrote:
>> Or, from another point of view, you can consider the string
>> comparison on the affiliations, as posted, to be part of the
>> algorithm.
>
> The system, to a large extent, is based on trust. We trust nomcom
> volunteers to exercise their best judgment and select the next batch
> of area directors and IAB members. So, I suggest that we simply ask
> selected nomcom members to decline selection if there are already two
> members selected with the same affiliation. In the case they would
> not, we have checks, e.g. publication of the nomcom member list to
> the IETF, approval of the selections by IAB & ISOC.

Let the NomCom chair do an initial vetting, and let the selected members
decline if they discover that the NomCom chair has missed an
affiliation.