Given how in my understanding, a key concern is really a perceived or real
diversity bias in IETF leadership, if you do add questions about diversity, please also add
the following questions. In fact, i think it would help the nomcom process to ask
these questions whether or not you also ask about diversity.
[Y/N] I understand the job requirements for an IESG member
[Y/N] I understand the job requirements for an IAB member
[Y/N] I consider myself qualified for an IESG/IAB position and I am willing to serve.
[XX] How many hours per week does an IESG member need to spend on average on the job ?
Explanation:
The first three question could allow based on self assessment to evaluate whether
IETF leadership is biased based on diversity stats or not. Without these questions
i am sure somebody would come up with stats that simply map diversity of existing
leadership to the diversity stats of the community responding during registration.
Of course, self-assessment is not ideal, but much better than nothing.
Question number 4 is just a simple checksum question to assess if there was a mistake
in answering the prior three questions.
In addion of course the generic questions i miss on almost every questionaire:
[ ] How much did you like the questions we asked (1=useless ... 5=perfect)
Please tell us what questions we should have asked:
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Thanks
Toerless
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:17:14AM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote:
> And please direct your comments to iaoc@xxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks
>
> Ray
>
> On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Ray Pelletier wrote:
>
> > All
> >
> > The IETF is concerned about diversity. As good engineers, we would like
> > to attempt to measure diversity while working on addressing and increasing
> > it. To that end, we are considering adding some possibly sensitive
> > questions to the registration process, for example, gender. Of course,
> > they need not be answered and would be clearly labeled as optional.
> >
> > The IAOC would like to hear from the community on this proposal. It plans to
> > make a decision on its 18 April call in order to make the changes in time for the
> > Berlin registration and will consider all input received by 17 April.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback.
> >
> > Ray
> > IAD
> >
>
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