[Eligibility-discuss] Re: draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-05

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Hi SM,

I'll focus on just this point:

>> And to get those people to volunteer we have two separate problems: 
>> getting people to participate in the IETF in the first place and 
>> getting their employers to support them in leadership.  We need to 
>> work on all of that too.
>
> The last sentence could be read as: we need employers to support 
> people who participate; we need employers to support some of those 
> people if there are interested in being selected for a position.
>
> The disadvantage of the employer support approach is that the 
> volunteer will not stick around when the employer support withers or 
> if the participation is not aligned with the employer's objectives.


I agree, and my comment was addressing a practical reality.  I don't 
think the IETF is in a position to pay people to hold these positions.  
There are of course both positives and negatives to employing decision 
makers.

Eliot