On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Brim <scott(_dot_)brim(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Is the great majority of the wisdom in the IETF incorporated into a
few megacorporations?
(That might reflect market share, in which case, is it a problem?)
I don't know the answer to that question, but it's an interesting question.
But the reason I reacted to John Klensin's message earlier the way I did is
that I think that the question of how biased toward the company's goals a
nomcom participant will be has a lot to do with the individual candidate. And
large companies do seem to tend to snap up long-time influential IETF
participants, so indeed it is likely that over time IETF knowledge will tend to
concentrate in one large company or another.
That being the case, the current two-person rule could as easily be argued to
be damaging to the process as beneficial to it. I'm not making a claim either
way, but I think that absent statistically valid data, this discussion is
completely theoretical.