On 09/28/2018 05:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Ole, > > Yes, although the sample is biased, I think that diversity along the > technical, commercial and geographical axes hasn't been lacking. Based on the stats at tools.ietf.org, there doe not seem to be a lot of geographical diversity (or.. well, that depends on how we "count"). > The bias > is economic - people from larger, richer, more successful organzations > can get time and funding to participate. Agreed. > But lack of diversity along the human axis is a problem. > > Some data points (to consider in relation to Alissa's gender data): > > In 2018, we have 5 women out of 27 IAB+IESG seats (*not* counting the IETF Chair twice). > > In 2008, it was 1 out of 27. > > In 1998, it was 2 out of 24. And that is one axis. Consider also academia vs private vs government sector, geographical diversity, and others... Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492
