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On 7/25/19 10:09 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I am extremely concerned about a lack of employer diversity among authors/editors. Anyone who has authored or edited an RFC knows that that role carries with it tremendous power to influence the output, to word things in such a way that you like the result. (Yes, the author has to earn rough consensus, but the author still gets to choose the words.) In a sense, this is the very job of an author or editor. But when the authors or editors of RFCs are mostly from a small number of large companies, those RFCs are likely to represent the interests of those companies much more than the interests of the wider IETF community or the Internet as a whole.That's all true, of course, but it's a fact of life that larger companies can afford to pay some employees to do substantial amounts of IETF work, and smaller companies can't. My comment was based on the assumption that there's no point in being concerned about something that can't be changed. I guess I think there is some potential for positive change there
if, for example, we can reduce the cost of effective
participation. Keith
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