Re: Want to be on the IESG?

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 10/7/21 1:56 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:

> Ron, I am not sure that I agree with you or Stewart here. We are 
> discussing the lack of candidates for leadership positions. If I look 
> at the roster of the IAB and IESG, I find plenty of members working 
> for those large companies that develop Internet technologies, and that 
> tells me that we are not exactly suffering from lack of participation 
> from big companies. In fact, if we loaded committees with even more 
> participation of these big companies, the complaint would not be that 
> they "do not invest" -- most probably, we would hear the opposite 
> complaint, that they invest too much. 

The question is, are those Big Companies "investing" or are they 
"exploiting"?  Or some of each?

Even though I think that's the question, I suspect we can't really 
answer that question definitively here, or maybe anywhere.

But I'd love to see more I* candidates who are NOT from Big Companies.  
IETF needs more diversity in its leadership.

Keith