Re: Updating BCP 10 -- NomCom ELEGIBILITY

On this topic, I asked the secretariat:

> Putting aside the problems of different emails used to register,  is it a
> simple query against the registration database (which I think is not in
> anyway connected to the datatracker), to determine how many people are
> nomcom eligible at a given time?  (I don't care who they are)
> Can this run from a historical point of view?
> Regardless, if we can run this, could we run it three times a year (after
> each meeting), and capture that data?


Michael StJohns <mstjohns(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net> wrote:
    > At 10:43 AM 2/11/2015, Loa Andersson wrote:
    >>> The operation of each nomcom are pretty opaque to those who are not on 
it.   For those who have interacted with a nomcom as candidates, such an 
impression might exist.   It's possible that nomcom liaisons or chairs could 
speak to this.   However, since nomcom proceedings are supposed to be 
confidential, I don't know how much they could really say.   Because these 
properties of the nomcom are intentional and useful, it does make sense to be 
particularly careful about how nomcom eligibility is determined and not just 
trust to peoples' good natures.
    >>
    >> Sorry I was not talking about the operations of the NomCom, but how
    >> many drones we have in the pool. Looking at a few of the last pools
    >> (the +100) I dare say that the figure is low, if we regardless of that
    >> have problems in the NomCom operations no rule whatsoever will help.


    > It would be interesting to take a look at the "large company" pool 
volunteers over say the past 20 years and figure out a way of giving them an 
activity factor (e.g. attendee vs contributor) - but finding an objective scale 
that we could all agree with to assign such activity factor would be difficult.

    > I say large company because about 55-60% (rough number - just from 
scanning) or so of the voting members of the Nomcoms over the last 20 years 
appear have come from companies with large numbers of attendees at the IETF - 
said companies tending to be what I think of as "big".

    > The other number to look at might be the number of attendees (percentage 
wise) per company per meeting vs number of volunteers (percentage wise) per 
company per nomcom.  All things being equal I would expect those percentages to 
be close to identical.  I would expect where the nomcom volunteer percentage 
exceeds the attendee percentage to maybe be indicative of a desire by the 
company to place members on the Nomcom.

    > Later, Mike




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