Ray Expert as the IETF (and its allied organisations) is in Internet Engineering, I doubt if many of those skills transfer into Social Engineering, which is the field in which I think this question lies. Lacking such expertise, into how to frame a question in order to get the answer which is wanted, how to interpret the results of a self-selecting survey, complying with the legislation relating to the handling of personal information in the countries involved, I think that the IETF should stay out of this.
Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Pelletier" <rpellet...@isoc.org> To: "Ray Pelletier" <rpellet...@isoc.org> Cc: "Discussion IETF" <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:17 PM Subject: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration? And please direct your comments to i...@ietf.org Thanks Ray On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Ray Pelletier wrote: > All > > The IETF is concerned about diversity. As good engineers, we would like > to attempt to measure diversity while working on addressing and increasing > it. To that end, we are considering adding some possibly sensitive > questions to the registration process, for example, gender. Of course, > they need not be answered and would be clearly labeled as optional. > > The IAOC would like to hear from the community on this proposal. It plans to > make a decision on its 18 April call in order to make the changes in time for the > Berlin registration and will consider all input received by 17 April. > > Thanks for your feedback. > > Ray > IAD >
