Hi Stewart, On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Stewart Bryant <stbryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Age > Disability > Gender reassignment > Marriage and civil partnership > Pregnancy and maternity > Race > Religion and belief > Sex > Sexual orientation The U.S. has a similar (although not identical) list, and it may vary a bit state-by-state. > > If we are going to have an itemized list of diversity characteristics, we should not pick and choose, we should include the full list. While I certainly wouldn't suggest we start discriminating based on _any_ of these factors, it is very difficult to measure our results in some of these areas, as we do not collect this information from IETF attendees, nor do we publish the age, disability status, gender status, marital status, religion or sexual orientation of our I* members. I am not suggesting that we start collecting or publishing this information, just saying that it makes it hard to tell whether our leadership is reasonably representative of the community in some of these areas. Also, I think there are some area where diversity is important to the IETF that are not on this list, like geographic location, corporate affiliation and industry segment (vendor, operator, researcher, etc.). Margaret