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Hi all, The diversity design team is working on mechanisms to increase the range of perspectives within the IETF, while maintaining high standards of quality. Our goal is to help improve the composition and dynamic of the IETF, by finding ways to incorporate a wide range of perspectives within the IETF, and specifically in the IETF management teams. One way of achieving this is to ensure that participants differ along many different personal, social, and professional attributes. The expectation is that the greater range of perspectives leads to considering issues more deeply and with more sensitivity. Community feedback is the most important input that helps us determine the aspects are currently working well in the IETF in this regard and those that are not. We cannot properly execute the task of proposing new mechanisms or modifying existing mechanisms to further these goals without **your** participation and feedback. We would like to help the IETF management make choices that maximize the IETF's ability to include and encourage all interested participants, and maximize their contributions to IETF work. On that basis, we are seeking input from people based on their personal experiences about * actions and activities that have worked well to improve the inclusiveness of the IETF process * actions and activitiets that have not worked well to improve the inclusiveness of the IETF process * actions and activities that have worked *against* inclusiveness of the IETF process If you have experience with other technology based organisations that have broad consultation practices, we would also like to hear about examples of actions taken that work well to include participation from diverse communities Please provide us your input by sending an email to the diversity design team at diversity-dt@xxxxxxxx . You can provide **anonymous** feedback by contacting either of the design team leads Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> and Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty@xxxxxxx> who will anonymize it for the rest of the members. Thanks Suresh Krishnan & Kathleen Moriarty for the diversity design team Design team members =================== Narelle Clark Dave Crocker Aaron Yi Ding Lars Eggert SM Monique Morrow Hugo Salgado Arturo Servin Margaret Wasserman Scott Weeks |