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Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 28 January 2021 00:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood=40comcast.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
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On 27/1/21 20:30, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>     For some reason, these two axis [country and company] are not considered when discussing
>      diversity. Or, to be put in a different way, diversity seems to be
>      discussed only as long as those two axis remain unaffected.
> 
> I think you've been missing a big part of the conversation.

Possibly.



> Almost every time we talk about meeting times, the US conversation comes up.
> 
> Every time we talk about time required to take a leadership (mainly IESG) position, the time commitment and how it biases toward big companies comes up.

Are you arguing that geographic and company diversity is part of the 
diversity the IETF is trying to address?

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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