Re: [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, Mallory Knodel wrote:

> A short draft to consider in the selection of nomcom voting volunteers to ensure minimum gender representation, available here and copied below:


 	To address gender representation in the IETF nomcom, we need only ensure that all voting members are not of the same gender.

I find the "need only" a bit odd. We need to do a whole lot of things to
address gender representation in the IETF nomcom.

I am a bit considered that the selected member could be tweaked by
discouraging eligble non-male candidates to volunteer. Do we have
any statistics on the past candidate pools to indicate there would
be at least several non-male candidates in the pool ?

Then again, even if that concern, I still think change is okay, and
misuse would still only result in a tiny mindshare change in the nomcom.

Paul