I've been saying something similiar for some years: lack of diversity in
chairs => lack of diversity in AD candidates.
Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I also want the Area Directors to look through their working groups and
> consider asking some experienced people to step down so that their
> position can be filled by someone new to the role. I am sure that in
> some cases it will be a difficult, perhaps even unpleasant,
> conversation to have.
Not necessarily difficult.
I think that many experienced people understand the need to train new people,
and most will welcome help.
Turn the experienced people into WG secretaries: that lets them push all the
buttons if they need to, helping new chairs along.
This is also why I want the contributor section encoded better into the XML,
and I'd like the WG chairs and shepherd for a WG document always listed, so that in the
future, the DT can more clearly acknowledge this.
> I know that sometimes we used a WG chair position
> to help a long-time contributor justify their involvement to their
> employer. For the long-term health of the organization, we must stop
> doing that, if only because it goes against our declaration that people
> participate as individuals.
> Sent to both the ietf@ and iesg@ mailing list; please be careful about replies.
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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