Re: [Gendispatch] Re: Comments on Composition and Comportment of the IETF Nominating Committee draft

Dan Harkins <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:31:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
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   You know, I wrote an April Fools I-D suggesting this sort of thing
to ensure diversity and I got in trouble!

   Oh the irony.

   Dan.

On 7/22/26 11:45 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> I wanted to follow up on the discussion we had during the meeting
> about the impact proposed rule in S 2.1 for the selection process.
> The text states that:
>
>    The “two-per-organisation limit” of Section 4.17 of [RFC8713] can
>    easily be extended to ensure a nomcom consisting of no more than n-1
>    members from any one gender (where n is the number of available
>    volunteer slots), requiring skips for the nth slot until a gender
>    minority volunteer is chosen.

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