John,
In my more recent RFCs, I only use my name, current affiliation, and a personal email address since the other information (physical address, phone number, company email) changes so often that it would be useless for anyone to try to use it to contact me, and that's really the point of contact information.
Cheers,
Andy
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:31 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
--On Friday, September 28, 2018 14:15 -0400 Alissa Cooper
<alissa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> How is country of origin determined? I'm guessing it has to
>> be by the authors' addresses on their RFCs.
>
> Yes, I believe. That is why I think "country of residence"
> is the better approximate descriptor.
Noting that a significant number of RFCs and I-Ds seem to be
published these days with no author "address" information other
than an email address (especially because many email addresses
these day give no information about country locations at all),
is that information only about people who volunteer country
information?
Would you and the IESG recommend that the RFC Editor tighten up
enforcement of what was historically a rule requiring at least
some location-related information?
That said, as Eliot and others have argued, what we really need
is diversity of perspectives. Some of the discussion seems to
be trending toward diversity among those factors that can easily
be measured and assessed quantitatively. I suggest that the
latter cluster of attributes are not a good surrogate for the
former.
If we think it is appropriately applied to the IETF, Kevin's
observation about "being open to help from all walks of life" my
be especially interesting in this regard because, for example,
there may be fewer differences along a variety of scales among
people who are practicing Internet engineering as a professional
career than between most of them and what would be called,
statistically, the general population. In some respects, that
may be another problem -- I've heard the argument that, to
succeed in engineering fields, women need to behave more like
men. Having not had the experience, I don't know whether that
is true. I've fairly sure that, as requirements go, it is
undesirable to interpret "try to be sure there are women" into
"it is ok to satisfy that criterion exclusively with women who
have behaved "like men" (whatever that means) all of their
careers.
best,
john
