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Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

2012-08-02 03:37:14
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From: "Samuel Weiler" <weiler(_at_)watson(_dot_)org>
To: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:59 PM

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).

Looks like a fairly accurate reflection of the driving force behind most
of the I-Ds I see, in Areas such as Routing and Ops.

Whether NomCom should reflect the forces behind those I-Ds I am less
clear about.

Tom Petch

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