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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Jason.<br>
I looked at the slides, and indeed slide 6 talks about diversity.
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But it relates to the IETF LLC (not sure how many people on the
chapters' list know what this actually is), while in the chapters'
list we are talking about diversity on the ISOC Board of Trustees.
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It would be good, if there was some commitment from ISOC to adapt
some of these, from your presentation:<br>
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</font>"<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improve the
diversity of participants & contributors, including based on
gender,
country, professional & educational background, etc. while
also moving to a
friendlier & more inclusive culture that embraces new
participants."<br>
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best,<br>
v/<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/6/21 10:50, Livingood, Jason via
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The key takeaway is the IETF has failed miserably at solving its diversity problems.
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Diversity & inclusion are difficult problems and they will not be solved quickly or easily - it takes a long-term commitment. The IETF also cannot solve it alone for the whole tech industry. As well, for the IETF, our community is focusing on a very broad definition of diversity which includes things such as country of residence, working in a developing vs. developed economy, education/work background (e.g. comp sci, human rights, privacy, software dev, etc.), and more.
The ISOC board certainly raised this issue during the funding discussions with the IETF last year and we discussed the subject in ISOC board meetings at that time. For example, the IETF presented at the ISOC 2020 AGM (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/meetings/153/">https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/meetings/153/</a>) and spoke about this on Slide 6 of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/10-IETF-LLC-Presentation-to-ISOC-Board-August-2020.pdf">https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/10-IETF-LLC-Presentation-to-ISOC-Board-August-2020.pdf</a>.
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Best regards,
Veni
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