ISOC is doing a great job with the fellowship program. There is just a few people each meeting but it is a good start. Now, we need to figure out how to bring more people and prepare them to write RFCs and being leaders. Not easy at all as Keith said. Regards, as On 11/03/2013 14:25, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > On 3/11/2013 1:03 PM, Keith Moore wrote: >> On 03/11/2013 01:43 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: >>> My opinion is that we agree we have a situation that we should >>> improve, >>> but also we shouldn't focus on the nomcom process, the problem is not >>> about how we select people (it may help but it is not the root problem). >>> The problem is to bring new people (younger people, women, from more >>> countries, different languages, etc.) to write RFCs, to participate/be >>> interested in the IETF and how we involve/prepare these people to become >>> our leaders and not just participants. If we do that, then we will have >>> more diversity in our leadership. >> Agree. And I suspect that a large part of the answer is "make effective >> participation in IETF substantially less expensive than it is now" >> >> (I didn't say it was an easy problem to solve.) >> >> Keith > > Arturo and Keith, > > Thank you both for these thoughts. > > I've self-funded a couple of IETF meetings, but still think primarily > about "expensive" in terms of time. > > Spencer