RE: Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Hi Fernando,

I just took a quick look at the document and I missed one point that increasingly worries me working in the IETF, namely the increasing number of participants who are not interested to write any code*.
I would include this aspect under diversity, particularly when talking about the new leadership election cycles.

Participating in some working groups I more and more get the impression to sit in a document writing class rather than in an Internet engineering organization.

Ciao
Hannes

*: I am also including authors of protocol specifications that do not implement their own specifications.

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From: ietf <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Fernando Gont
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Subject: Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF

Folks,

We have submitted a new I-D, entitled "Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF".

The I-D is available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gont-diversity-analysis-00.txt

We expect that our document be discussed in the gendispatch wg (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/gendispatch/about/). But given the breadth of the topic and possible views, we'll be glad to discuss it where necessary/applicable/desired.

As explicitly noted in our I-D, we're probably only scratching the surface here -- but we believe that our document is probably a good start to discuss many aspects of diversity that deserve discussion.

Thanks!

Regards,
--
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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