Christian,
Keith has captured thee nuance of my comment. I really don't care where candidates come from, so long as they come to promote the common good of the Internet community and not their corporate interests.
Ron
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From: Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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
