<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Veni<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I fully agree with your analysis. Diversity is crucial for ensuring that there is an international set of inputs, that the Foundation not be American-centric. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Requiring diversity is not some sort of “forced” policy. It is a basic value. I note the benefits of the ChAC’s having a group of members from the regions and three at-large.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other the assumptions expressed by some in this set of emails that somehow the Foundation being a US non-profit makes it incapable of fulfilling its purposes shows only that there is a lot of misinformation about what the restrictions are and the freedom it has to act internationally.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John More</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" class="">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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in another list, maintained by ISOC, and dedicated to ISOC's
"governance reform", when I raised a question about diversity, was
confronted with questions that diversity should not be "forced"
(not sure who's forcing it, since none of us, chapter leaders, has
any power to "force" anything on ISOC?!), but people should be
taken by their experience, expertise, skills, etc. This, of course
is true, the only problem is that it's not the entire truth, as
there are experienced and skilled experts around the world; and
the org members, and the IETF have enough experts among their
members/employees/volunteers, who are not necessarily only from
North America... <br class="">
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It seems that lack of diversity is one problem, and not
understanding that it is a problem, is... another problem.<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/5/21 09:18, Tom Fredrik Blenning
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02.10.2021 15:40, skrev Gihan Dias via Chapter-delegates:
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On 01/10/2021 14:58, Ted Hardie via
Chapter-delegates wrote:
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We recently updated
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/">https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/"><https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/></a> to
include contact information for the board chair, so that the
chair can forward information received to the Trustees.
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WOW!
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10 people from US (1 moving to Canada), another from North
America, 1 from Asia and 1 from Africa.
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I reacted to the same myself, and I think it's something that is
worth looking into. I would like to draw attention to those
trustee members appointed by IETF, every single one is from the
United States.
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In am not looking for a perfect demographic composition of the
board, it is however important to have different perspectives. I
am reluctant to believe that the current board of trustees
represents such diversity.
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