On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Margaret Wasserman <mrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would strongly recommend that legal counsel be consulted before any such "list" is produced or used by IETF/IESG/Nomcom. (FYI, this is totally outside my own area of legal expertise, so IAOC would need to incur some expense to hire competent counsel in this area)
What records *do* exist regarding the identify of IETF leadership? Is there a central repository of at least names/companies of IESG members and/or WG leaders?
Hi Stewart,
The U.S. has a similar (although not identical) list, and it may vary a bit state-by-state.
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
>
> If we are going to have an itemized list of diversity characteristics, we should not pick and choose, we should include the full list.
I would strongly recommend that legal counsel be consulted before any such "list" is produced or used by IETF/IESG/Nomcom. (FYI, this is totally outside my own area of legal expertise, so IAOC would need to incur some expense to hire competent counsel in this area)
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.
What records *do* exist regarding the identify of IETF leadership? Is there a central repository of at least names/companies of IESG members and/or WG leaders?