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

[Scott W Brim <sbrim@cisco.com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 09:58:13AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o allegedly wrote:
> This may be overkill, but the following text comes from the bylaws of
> the Free Standards Group, and covers the case that someone brought up
> about treatment of wholely-owned subsidaries (such as Iris being owned
> by IBM after the Lotus Development Corporation acquisition).
> 
> Personally, I consider this to be far more complex than is or should
> be necessary, but the Free Standard Group burned lawyer time to get
> this legalese just right, so if people really want us to be anal about
> treatment of subsidaries, I offer this text.
> 
> But yes, limiting membership of boards, nomcom's, etc., by corporate
> ownership can certainly be done, and has been done by other
> organizations in the past.

I like having the Control Group definition in our back pocket.  It's a
good definition of what we've been talking about, and we will have to
define it someday.  Stick this definition under NomCom on the IETF site,
along with the "no more than 2 per control group" rule, and refer to it
in the call for nominees.

..Scott