Suggesting that simply diversity stats across all IETF participants can help to deduce anything about leadership diversity bias is ignoring qualification and availability of candidates. Thats why i proposed the questions i would like to see in a questionaire. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:14:59PM +0000, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:10 PM, David Meyer <dmm@xxxxxxxxx> > > Yes, but that is a different question. --dmm > > > IOW, you are suggesting that the percentages among non-attending participants may be substantially different than the percentages among attending participants? That's a point worth studying, but wouldn't likely be addressed by the proposed survey, unless some way were added to include non-attending participants. > -- --- Toerless Eckert, eckert@xxxxxxxxx Cisco NSSTG Systems & Technology Architecture SDN: Let me play with the network, mommy!