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Re: Diversity of candidates was Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 25 January 2021 19:14 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Diversity of candidates was Re: NomCom 2020 Announcement of Selections
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Many of your ideas are good ones worth examining closer.

>    One of the main drivers of our "diversity" problem is the input set of 
    people from which we draw our candidates - it lacks diversity on a 
    number of axes.  We've noted this before - that GIGO  or rather 
    Conformity In is Conformity Out.

I strongly disagree with this.  Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the better.  

I looked at the 2020 and 2019 candidates, neither were homogeneous.  (I could not look earlier as the website just says "closed" and I couldn't think of an easy mail archive search query to find the list of names.)  There was diversity, even if it didn't really show up in the selections.

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