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

[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

At 10:24 PM 11/11/2002 -0500, Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote:
> But the only perceived problem, the only thing these
> is a consensus on, is to fix the
> too-many-nomcom-members-from-the-same-organization problem.

dumb question, for which there must be an obvious answer. I have seen 
several recent nomcoms with more than one participant from the same 
company, and I haven't noticed in the outcomes of those nomcoms anything 
that smacked of corporate bias.

In this discussion, we're getting into some pretty microscopic cases, 
presuming for example that everyone who sent in their name now looks at the 
list coming out, notices that they were the third from their organization, 
and opts back out, etc. To accomplish that, we need timestamps in the list 
and some interesting controls.

Are we solving a real problem, or one that is merely worried about? If the 
latter, can we avoid a difficult and complex process to manage it?