--On Friday, May 03, 2013 18:10 -0400 Hector Santos <hsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > May I suggest that the IETF produce a web site for gathering > IETF participants profiles and even resumes. It can have a > questionnaire to extract the valuable information that will > help maximize the IETF/IESG efforts. The "Business > Information" (BI) can then be leveraged by ADs, WGs (and other > IETF/IESG leaders) to recruits/invite participants for various > projects, reviews, etc. It will have many win-wins for all. > We should consider there are as much, and perhaps even more > IETF man-years in people that never attended meetings but were > active for many years, nonetheless, in their various IETF > protocol interest areas. > > The structure of this questionnaire will be important to be > successful and beneficial. Hector, I can see the advantages of statements of interests and maybe qualifications. Moving beyond that to profiles and especially resumes would give me fairly serious concerns about privacy for those who supply the information and about inappropriate pressures (even if unintentional) on those who do not. There might even be some analogies to the reasons we keep information flow to the Nomcom confidential. There would be clear advantages to not doing so but, so far, the community has concluded that, on balance, confidentiality is the wiser course. best, john