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Re: [Gendispatch] draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Wed, 22 November 2023 19:19 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Bob Hinden wrote:

> What is the actual data here?   

The nomcom candidate pools over the last few years?

> The reason I am asking, is it seems to me given the random selection of NomCom members, that as long as there is a diverse pool of NomCom volunteers, we
> should get a diverse set of people selected to serve.    

Clearly that is not happening.

> If there isn’t a diverse pool of NomCom volunteers, that is a different problem and isn’t addressed by this proposal.   That is a serious issue for the
> IETF and we would be better off discussing how to fix that.

We have discussed diversity and done various things to try and improve
these. This is one such proposal to improve this.

Your proposal to instead do more discussing won't change anything right
now. This proposal is a stop gap meassure to achieve the bare minimum.

As it applies equally to all genders, it is sufficiently future proof
that there is no reason to wait with this proposal until "we" are
done "discussing how to fix that".

Paul

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