[Chapter-delegates] more diversity, was On funding dedicated to chapters

[Dave Burstein]

The key takeaway is the IETF has failed miserably at solving its diversity
problems.

The Internet Society clearly doesn't have the skills to help IETF on this.
Our ex-chair, Gonzalo, tried unsuccessfully to persuade IETF to do better,
but did not succeed.

If our new board Chair, Ted Hardie, wants to raise ISOC from its
current state, he should use his considerable personal respect to demand
the IETF find a way to do better.

This is even more important in the case of the organizational members. 7 of
the 9 top organizational members are from the US & Europe. An eighth,
Ericsson, is the European sponsor of our ex-board Chair. All 4 board
nominees from organizations are white men from the US.

The only feasible way to make the board more representative of the Internet
is to persuade some of the current members to resign and nominating people
aligned with the global South.

I know many of the board members to be honorable who do not believe
the Internet Society should appear biased. Let's support new board chair
Ted Hardie in his efforts to restore credibility to ISOC.

Meanwhile, we should immediately remove "our global community" from our
home page until it's true.

The Global South is now almost 3/4ths of the Internet.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 6:47 PM John Levine via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> It appears that Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <veni at veni.com> said:
> >John,
> >While he might look back, that won't solve the issue we are discussing,
> >which aims at the future.
>
> Why do you imagine that the IAB and IETF are only looking backwards at
> diversity issues?
>
> R's,
> John
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