On 13 Jul 2020, at 8:01, Bron Gondwana wrote:
I'd say of the many types of diversity - geographic location, primary
language, personal identity, age, length of time involved with IETF,
etc... that primary area affiliation would be a valuable thing to have
diversity of within the nomcom - particularly since it handles
nominations for the directors of these areas - having experience
within multiple areas on the committee is valuable.
Just a few quick reminders:
a) We have an email list that is discussing NomCom eligibility more
broadly: eligibility-discuss@xxxxxxxx. Right now, it's discussing the
topic of pre-selection volunteer eligibility (because of the outstanding
issue of who is eligible now that we're having online-only plenary
meetings), but selection criteria might be an interesting future topic.
b) Brian Carpenter has a draft on possible criteria changes:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-eligibility-expand/
(the HTML version is most useful).
c) Brian's document is on the agenda for the gendispatch at IETF 108
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/108/session/gendispatch. If
selection criteria is a plausible future topic, that might be
interesting input on how to dispatch the work. (Or not: We might decide
that Brian's document needs separate handling from other NomCom related
topics, but it's worth knowing that other topics are floating around in
the community.)
FWIW: I like the idea of area diversity among NomCom members, and while
I think we do have quite a few "tribes", we also have quite a good
amount of cross-area work too, and that's a good value for the NomCom to
embody and be thinking about.
pr
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