Hi Padma,
At 02:04 AM 27-09-2018, Padma Pillay-Esnault wrote:
My open question was actually to poll the thoughts of the community
on creating more diversity on NomCom and other levels in IETF.
Several years ago there were discussions on this mailing list about
the above. There were a few Area Directors who responded positively.
There is a plethora of articles/blogs... out there about diverse
interview panels being key to achieving diversity.
I read some articles about the topic.
Today, AFAIK (I may be wrong or unaware of unwritten rules) it
seems that company affiliation is the main diversity factor.
Affiliation is part of the (written) selection criteria.
Undoubtedly, this is a good start but surely it can be augmented for
other diversity considerations as well such as gender parity...
There are issues on which I would have to seek advice from a
person(s) who has a better perspective; gender might be a consideration.
If we are committed on diversity and enlarging the pool of
candidates then possible starting points could be
1. More diversity on the interview panels and other levels
contributing to key selection criteria
2. Mentorship to build a pool of future candidates
3. Rotations to create more opportunities to qualify for key
selection criteria
The first point would be challenging. There is an existing
mentorship programme (point 2). As for point 3, please see
draft-klensin-nomcom-incumbents-first-00.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
