Re: Fwd: NomCom Volunteer List

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>]

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@mindspring.com> writes:

> >From: Richard Draves <richdr@microsoft.com>
> >To: IETF-Announce: ;
> >Subject: NomCom Volunteer List
> >
> >At this time, 2727bis has not yet been approved as an RFC. Hence I will
> >use RFC 2727's eligibility criteria (attended 2 of the last 3 IETF
> >meetings) when performing the random selection.
> 
> 
> 
> >  I will not check the
> >primary affiliation of the volunteers.
> 
> Umm... BULLSHIT!   On this list of 113 volunteers, 16 come from Cisco,
> 19 from nokia and 13 from Nortel.    48 in total or about 42% of the
> total list.    That means it wouldn't be unusual for 6 of the 10 to
> come from this group.  And it wouldn't be all that unusual for 3 or 4
> to come from Nokia or Cisco. (Statistically speaking)
> 
> 
> This was supposed to be fixed and it was the IESGs job to get this
> document through the process prior to this beginning....
> 
> 
> At that, what's in the document still isn't a fix - we could still end
> up with 6 or more from this group...  could we at least keep them from
> all being from one organization - please.

Mike,

I'm trying to figure out what you're looking for here...

While I agree that it's bad that the document hasn't been approved
yet, but it seems to me to be problematic for Rich to try to
enforce these rules prior to the document being approved.

Confused,
-Ekr