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

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 22 November 2023 21:20 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:19:22 -0800
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To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] New Version Notification for draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00.txt
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:12 PM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> I'm supportive of this draft updating our nomcom selection bcp.
>
> I think doing this as a process experiment for a few years may
> be useful, mostly to see if it affects how people volunteer to
> be on nomcom (e.g. if 90% of people end up choosing pnts then
> the experiment will have produced the result that this wasn't
> that good a plan and needs changing).
>
> I don't think we should extend the scope to include any other
> part of any other processes. If people have good ideas for some
> other thing then they can write another I-D.
>
> On 22/11/2023 19:57, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > Prefer-not-to-say amounts to opting out of gender based selection. That
> > means the candidate would be selected based on random ranking only, and
> > should never be selected based on "reserved for minority" preferences.
>
> I also agree with the above change. Ekr's code probably does that
> though I thought the draft suggested 9 rather than 8 as the limit
> for same-gender selectees but I'd be ok with either.
>

Oops. I plead inattentiveness.

-Ekr


>
> Cheers,
> S.
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