Jari, Peter Thanks for the article. It is really welcomed to see that "diversity" is something that the IETF is taking really seriously. Now, something general related to the blog. Perhaps it would be good to enable comments, isn't it? I think that it would be good to interact there instead of here. One of the values of this list is to have important topics, In general blog-comments do not reach that level of importance, although it is important to comment about the topic somewhere. Thanks, as On 7/30/13 3:53 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: > We have discussed diversity at the IETF at length. Yesterday, Pete Resnick and I wrote an article about what we think the goal for the IETF should be, as well as listing some of the early activities that we have taken at the IETF. Our goal is making the IETF more inclusive for everyone who needs to be working on Internet standards. We are at the beginning, however, and a lot of work remains ahead. Here's the article: > > http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/07/a-diverse-ietf/ > > Also, I wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow in the Administrative Plenary, Kathleen Moriarty and Suresh Krishnan will be talking about what they have uncovered so far in their efforts in the diversity design team. I'm looking very much forward to their report. Their efforts will help us understand where we have room to improve - often by much :-) - and what kinds of actions we can take to improve our inclusiveness. > > Jari >