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

Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> Tue, 26 January 2021 19:22 UTC

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> On 26/01/2021, at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> I think that "the appropriate people" was meant to refer to the managers
> that approve travel+time to attend/contribute to the IETF, not the people
> actually doing the contributing.  So the conversation might go something
> like "hi, we see you send a lot of smart people to the IETF; thank you!
> However, the IETF is looking at its diversity numbers, and it seems that
> the distribution of people you send to the IETF is different from your
> overall distribution of staff.  Can you think of ways to make the
> distribution of people you send to IETF more closely match your overall
> staff distribtion, so that the IETF in turn can more closely match the
> overall population?"

That is exactly how I would do it.

Jay

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Jay Daley
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