On 10/7/21 1:56 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
Ron, I am not sure that I agree with you or Stewart here. We are discussing the lack of candidates for leadership positions. If I look at the roster of the IAB and IESG, I find plenty of members working for those large companies that develop Internet technologies, and that tells me that we are not exactly suffering from lack of participation from big companies. In fact, if we loaded committees with even more participation of these big companies, the complaint would not be that they "do not invest" -- most probably, we would hear the opposite complaint, that they invest too much.
The question is, are those Big Companies "investing" or are they "exploiting"? Or some of each?
Even though I think that's the question, I suspect we can't really answer that question definitively here, or maybe anywhere.
But I'd love to see more I* candidates who are NOT from Big Companies. IETF needs more diversity in its leadership.
Keith
