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Re: On diversity in the NomCom

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Wed, 15 July 2020 15:58 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:57:55 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: On diversity in the NomCom
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I disagree. The absence of in-person meeting is quite disruptive IMHO.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:51:01AM -0700, Rob Sayre wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:57 PM Brian E Carpenter <
> brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nevertheless, the fact is that big
> > companies can (and do) send more people, and provide more sponsorship
> > (such as hosting meetings, and funding Area Directors), than small
> > companies. If they didn't get something back for that, they would
> > complain, or simply withdraw their resources.
> >
> 
> This seems like one of those things that might not "return to normal".
> 
> IETF work seems to be proceeding fine without people flying long distances
> to sit in a hotel conference room and look at their laptops.
> 
> thanks,
> Rob

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