Re: On diversity in the NomCom

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

On 13 Jul 2020, at 8:01, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> I'd say of the many types of diversity - geographic location, primary 
> language, personal identity, age, length of time involved with IETF, 
> etc... that primary area affiliation would be a valuable thing to have 
> diversity of within the nomcom - particularly since it handles 
> nominations for the directors of these areas - having experience 
> within multiple areas on the committee is valuable.

Just a few quick reminders:

a) We have an email list that is discussing NomCom eligibility more 
broadly: [e-mail]. Right now, it's discussing the 
topic of pre-selection volunteer eligibility (because of the outstanding 
issue of who is eligible now that we're having online-only plenary 
meetings), but selection criteria might be an interesting future topic.

b) Brian Carpenter has a draft on possible criteria changes: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-eligibility-expand/ 
(the HTML version is most useful).

c) Brian's document is on the agenda for the gendispatch at IETF 108 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/108/session/gendispatch. If 
selection criteria is a plausible future topic, that might be 
interesting input on how to dispatch the work. (Or not: We might decide 
that Brian's document needs separate handling from other NomCom related 
topics, but it's worth knowing that other topics are floating around in 
the community.)

FWIW: I like the idea of area diversity among NomCom members, and while 
I think we do have quite a few "tribes", we also have quite a good 
amount of cross-area work too, and that's a good value for the NomCom to 
embody and be thinking about.

pr
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