Sorry for the missing subtext:
If the nominations themselves ended up being more diverse, a more diverse set of people might care to help select them.
Joe
Joe Touch wrote:
Lars Eggert wrote:
Danny McPherson wrote:
Only one week left until the cutoff to volunteer for the 2004/05 IETF Nominations Committee. The NomCom is the IETF's way of selecting it's leadership, your participation is integral to it's success.
A list of volunteers as of 9/27/2004 is available here: http://www.ietf.org/nomcom/msg09.27.04.txt
More applicants may help to even out the distribution a bit:
Many of the positions require a letter of support from your employer. Many employers outside the top-10 below - e.g., universities, university labs, etc. - don't have the resources to cover 20-50% of a person's time as a contribution to the IETF.
If we want the system to be more diverse, we need to find a way to allow participation at lower levels, such that support letters aren't a prerequisite.
Joe
# wget -O- -q http://www.ietf.org/nomcom/msg09.27.04.txt | perl -n -e 's/.*[@.](.*)\..*>/\1/ and print' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
15 cisco 12 nokia 7 nortelnetworks 5 ericsson 4 lucent 4 alcatel 3 siemens 2 verisign 2 microsoft 2 mcsr-labs 2 francetelecom 1 yahoo 1 vpnc 1 ucla 1 uc3m 1 tislabs 1 teliasonera 1 switch 1 sun 1 stevecrocker 1 sonusnet 1 shockey 1 samsung 1 rr 1 ripe 1 registro 1 qualcomm 1 pp 1 packetdesign 1 on 1 ogud 1 nex 1 netcore 1 navy 1 motorola 1 liljenstolpe 1 kniveton 1 juniper 1 jhuapl 1 jabber 1 isode 1 internet2 1 il 1 convedia 1 columbia 1 cisc 1 calient 1 brooktrout 1 brianrosen 1 brandenburg 1 bbn 1 avici 1 avaya 1 OpenLDAP
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