On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Margaret Wasserman <m...@lilacglade.org>wrote:
> > Hi Stewart, > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Stewart Bryant <stbry...@cisco.com> wrote: > > Age > > Disability > > Gender reassignment > > Marriage and civil partnership > > Pregnancy and maternity > > Race > > Religion and belief > > Sex > > Sexual orientation > > The U.S. has a similar (although not identical) list, and it may vary a > bit state-by-state. > > > > If we are going to have an itemized list of diversity characteristics, > we should not pick and choose, we should include the full list. > I would strongly recommend that legal counsel be consulted before any such "list" is produced or used by IETF/IESG/Nomcom. (FYI, this is totally outside my own area of legal expertise, so IAOC would need to incur some expense to hire competent counsel in this area) > > While I certainly wouldn't suggest we start discriminating based on _any_ > of these factors, it is very difficult to measure our results in some of > these areas, as we do not collect this information from IETF attendees, nor > do we publish the age, disability status, gender status, marital status, > religion or sexual orientation of our I* members. > What records *do* exist regarding the identify of IETF leadership? Is there a central repository of at least names/companies of IESG members and/or WG leaders?
