On 3/11/2013 9:23 AM, Ted Hardie wrote: > So, I said this once before on a previous thread, but I still believe that > this analysis is wrong. From an organiational perspective, the aim of fostering > diversity isn't "political correctness", it's enabling a larger pool > of candidates. I tend to think of it as an effort to remove bias from the system, which is probably consistent with the notion of enabling more candidates. I think that right now there's a far narrower set of perspectives being represented among the I* than among the IETF participants. That's necessarily the case when the I* is 30-odd people and there are several thousand participants, but notably lacking among the leadership are people who don't work for large manufacturers and people who have first-hand knowledge of network architectures and management practices in non-western countries. I think that makes us weaker. Melinda