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Re: [Gendispatch] IETF transparency and diversity

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 08 April 2021 06:06 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 23:05:56 -0700
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To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: Tony Rutkowski <rutkowski.tony@gmail.com>, "gendispatch@ietf.org" <gendispatch@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] IETF transparency and diversity
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:02 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> > On 8 Apr 2021, at 2:35 am, Tony Rutkowski <rutkowski.tony@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Having watched dozens of standards bodies like the IETF try to assess
> themselves for the past forty plus years - generally not well - this list
> seems to follow the norm.  There are a relative handful of people on this
> list, and the participation is highly skewed.  3/4 of the posts are from
> just 21 people who are almost all insiders perpetuating status.
>
> If you want to make a claim like 'insiders perpetuating status', please
> support it; on the face, it seems more rhetorical than factual.
>

Seems like a strange claim, indeed. I don't even know what that "status"
would be. For my part, I just have my email client ignore anyone that is a
pain, and I don't work for anyone. :)

thanks,
Rob

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