Re: [Gendispatch] Exhausted pool [draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00]

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 26 November 2023 23:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] Exhausted pool [draft-knodel-nomcom-gender-representation-00]
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It appears that Brian E Carpenter  <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> said:
>More fundamentally, since liaisons and advisors (including the
>past Chair) do not vote on candidates, IMHO their presence has very
>limited relevance to diversity.

Beyond that, to be on our nomcom you have to be an active IETF
participant, viz the 3 out of 5 meeting rule. The diversity issues on
the nomcom are an effect of the diversity issues in the IETF as a
whole, and we're not going to solve either by dropping in outside
people whose only qualification is that they check some distribution
box.

R's,
John