Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

On 24 Jul 2020, at 4:50, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> To be practical: the draft was proposed two years ago on HRPC and even 
> there it could not reach consensus. Given how sensitive the subject 
> is, I would suggest that we would dispatch it to a specific working 
> group with the task of working out a general mechanism that can apply 
> to any past and future case of offensive language. The specific terms 
> to avoid, and how to deal with them, should then emerge as an initial 
> application of that mechanism.
>
> It would however be much better if the group were also tasked with 
> developing a strategy to increase the overall diversity of 
> participation in the IETF and in its leadership roles.

This is good input into the gendispatch discussion that is going to 
happen next week. If other think that this work should go to a working 
group, or to a different sort of group (the RFC Editor; the IAB), or not 
be worked on at all, your presence at the gendispatch meeting next week, 
or input to the gendispatch list, would be greatly appreciated.

pr
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