After some PM encouragement, i opened the following datatracker issue to ask for the datatrackers person page to start showing past roles. Feel free to +1 or discuss further on github if you're interested. https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/6068 Cheers Toerless On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 01:15:42AM +0200, Toerless Eckert wrote: > Really unrelated, but if need be, i'll claim it to be a perk (recognition): > > Could datatracker please start to capture and show also past IETF roles of participants on their > people page ? Past chair , secretary, nomcom, othrer roles, ... etc. > With start/end dates. > > (and no, i don't accept "do it yourself in the bio field" as an acceptable resolution. > after all, we also have th counter discussion of too much accumulation of roles for > few participants and lacking diversity therefore, and that would be good reason for folks > not to try to highlight all their roles in their bio field themselves) > > Cheers > Toerless > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote: > > On 2023-07-27, at 19:15, Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I think that chairs by default should be given free registration. We spend countless hours on IETF/IRTF issues. > > > > At first blush, I'd think so, too (of course :-) > > > > But seriously, I wouldn’t want the deliberation of “who would make the best chairs” to be overlaid by the thought “who needs that support most to be able to participate”. > > > > Oh, and WG/RG document authors need free registration too (of course :-). > > (“Whose document should we adopt so the authors can continue to participate.”) > > Maybe only the first author. > > (“Do we need to split this WG/RG document so another one of the authors can be first on the other one and continue to participate.”) > > > > You see where I think this leads... > > > > Grüße, Carsten > > -- > --- > tte@xxxxxxxxx > -- --- tte@xxxxxxxxx