On Jul 9, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com>
wrote:
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.
Dear Ted,
From my experience, some projects have been thwarted through actions of a few
companies. The direction taken ended up being doomed which may have been the
ultimate goal and potentially represents a real fairness issue IMHO.
Regards,
Douglas Otis