Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 24 July 2020 14:39 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:19:43PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> > The IETF was US-dominated
> 
> It was but isn't.

Check out what percentage of people in any role other than individual contributor
are neither US citizens, live in the US or do not draw money from a US company/organization.

If that iss not a good definition for IETF being a US-dominated organization, then please tell me yours.

Toerless

> 							Masataka Ohta