On 9/26/18 2:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > owever, we'd better face an ugly truth, which is that if the > composition of the IETF as a whole isn't diverse, the NomCom will > not be able to do much with that guidance. So IMHO a serious approach > to diversity has to start at the input (who participates in the IETF), > not at the output (who is nominated for the leadership). Right, but the slide said that the way to get diverse leadership is to have a diverse participant base. That's necessary but by no means sufficient (the statistics on this are very clear). Melinda