RE: [Fwd: Re: guidance on avoiding too many people from one compa ny/group] (fwd) (fwd)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

The lawyer not only thinks it's unproblematic to limit nomcom membership, 
he thinks it's a good idea.

                Harald


---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: torsdag, november 14, 2002 08:37:34 +0000
From: Contreras@bhd.com
To: harald@alvestrand.no
Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: guidance on avoiding too many people from one compa 
	ny/group] (fwd)

Harald and Scott,

I think that limiting nomcom membership to "no more than 2 from any company"
is very appropriate, and is beneficial from a legal standpoint.  Such a
limitation prevents any single company from gaining undue influence over the
standards process, through random selection or otherwise (i.e., if a random
process resulted in 100% of nomcom members being from Vendor X, it would
look bad, no matter how random the selection process was).  Many
organizations limit committee/board membership to ONE from any given
company, so the limitation to 2 per company is even more generous.

Please let me know if you would like a more detailed follow-up.

Regards,
Jorge