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Re: [Diversity] draft-crocker-diversity-conduct-01

Pranesh Prakash <pranesh@cis-india.org> Sat, 30 August 2014 06:21 UTC

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S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> [2014-08-29 00:26:00 -0700]:
>    "Nomcom is itself a potentially diverse group of IETF participants,
>     chosen almost at random."
>
> That should, in theory, prevent the problem(s) mentioned about from
> happening.

How?

> I rephrase the quoted text as:
>
>     Nomcom is itself a potentially diverse group of IETF attendees,
>     chosen almost at random.
>
...
> Rephrasing text again:
>
>     Nomcom is itself a potentially diverse group of corporate IETF
>     attendees, chosen almost at random.
>
> Even though the selection is still random the results would be skewed as
> the population is no longer diverse.  It is unlikely that the selection
> process would encourage varying attributes among members and that is
> what triggered the diversity debate.

Exactly.  I don't understand how you're squaring this with the above. 
position.

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