Re: How to get diversity of nominees was Re: Diversity of candidates was Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections

[Joel Halpern <[e-mail]>]

There is one easy tool that I think we should use more in appointing WG 
chairs.
ADs could publicly ask for volunteers.

I was very pleasantly surprised a number of years ago when I and another 
IAB member had to appoint a person to a position.  We knew who we 
wanted.  We decided we should put out a public call anyway.  And got a 
volunteer we had not thought of who was even better.

Yours,
Joel

PS: As mentioned by others, I think the practice of pairing experienced 
chairs with new chairs is both a good idea and very effective.

On 1/26/2021 2:03 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 1/26/21 1:26 PM, STARK, BARBARA H wrote:
> 
>> IIRC, all the nominees were WG Chairs. This is generally considered an 
>> intermediary step towards the NomCom-appointed leadership positions. I 
>> strongly suspect (but don't feel incented to get real statistics) that 
>> the nominee pool diversity reasonably resembled WG Chair diversity, 
>> but that WG Chair diversity does not reflect attendee diversity.
> 
> If WG chairs tend to be people who have attended many in-person meetings 
> and/or have actively participated in IETF for a few years, I wonder how 
> much the diversity of WG chairs is affected by attendee churn which 
> seems to be larger today than in the past. It's hardly surprising if ADs 
> who appoint chairs want people experienced with IETF process (and 
> consensus-based decision making in particular, since we rely on chairs 
> to gauge consensus and sometimes to help build consensus within their 
> WGs).  It would also not be surprising if participants would like to 
> experience IETF before taking on the responsibility of chair.
> 
> So one thing I'm curious about is: how does IETF encourage more 
> participants to be engaged in IETF in general, instead of only in the 
> context of specific WGs?
> 
> Or to put it another way: how does IETF encourage more participation by 
> people with broad and/or long-term interests in the Internet?
> 
> I wonder if the fee waivers can continue indefinitely even for in-person 
> attendance, or if there can be fee reductions for f2f meetings.   Even 
> if it's not feasible to reduce fees for everyone who cannot pay for 
> in-person meetings, perhaps there could be reductions in fees from 
> under-represented parts of the world? Perhaps other means of lowering 
> the cost of attendance can be found?
> 
> Keith
> 
>