Re: On diversity in the NomCom

[Rob Sayre <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:10 PM Brian E Carpenter <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 15-Jul-20 20:51, Rob Sayre wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:57 PM Brian E Carpenter <
> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Nevertheless, the fact is that big
> >     companies can (and do) send more people, and provide more sponsorship
> >     (such as hosting meetings, and funding Area Directors), than small
> >     companies. If they didn't get something back for that, they would
> >     complain, or simply withdraw their resources.
> >
> >
> > This seems like one of those things that might not "return to normal".
> >
> > IETF work seems to be proceeding fine without people flying long
> distances to sit in a hotel conference room and look at their laptops.
>
> That doesn't change my argument that big companies are more able than
> small companies to donate resources to the IETF. Whether those resources
> come out of the travel budget is a detail.
>

Yes, the point was to consider whether the IETF needs the money. The number
of meetings is a sliding scale. Zero is probably not a good idea, but three
per year seems like too many. I attended a few IETF meetings long ago, and
I can understand why they must happen occasionally.

Area Director and WG chair time is a real cost, and I would advocate
reducing that commitment as well. Perhaps the IETF should no longer publish
Informational or Experimental RFCs. Internet-Drafts are good enough for
that.

thanks,
Rob