On Jul 9, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Brim <scott.b...@gmail.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
