On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, NomCom Chair wrote:
I am pleased to report at this time we have 98 qualified individuals
who have generously volunteer their time to serve on this year's
NomCom.
Sorting that list by affiliation and counting the number of names from
each affiliation, the volunteer list as of Monday included:
16 Huawai
15 Cisco
13 Ericsson
9 Juniper
5 ZTE
4 Nokia/Siemens (debatable; see details)
3 Alcatel-Lucent
3 BBN
3 China Mobile
3 CNNIC
2 Time Warner Cable
1 (22)
Total: 98
Observations: the top four companies on this list have contributed
more than half of the NomCom volunteers. The top three have
contributed twice as many (44) as all of the entities that
contributed only one (22).
Opinion: the NomCom would benefit from having many "independent"
members. While that could happen (yay, randomness), the odds here
don't look great.
-- Sam
Footnote: I wasn't entirely sure which of the Nokia and Seimens
entries (below) to combine. I erred on the side of combining all of
them, knowing that there's likely a strong argument to be made for
some other treatment. In any case, I don't think it will make much of
a difference to the analysis.
Teemu Savolainen, Nokia
Jouni Korhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks
Mehmet Ersue, Nokia Siemens Networks
Andrew Hutton, Siemens Enterprise Communications