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

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:19:26 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Two points:


Mallory, having a female chair of the IETF... wasn't a great experience.
Still, there's arguably little concrete to conclude from that single
sample point.


Dan, you're posting from @lounge.org.
https://www.lounge.org/ is not corporate, and is arguably quite sexist.
So much for your disclosure there.


Lloyd Wood 
[email protected]


Mallory said:
>> We need to work on making the IETF as a whole more welcoming
>> to as wide a range of people as practical. I know it's possible 
>> because I've seen it happen at M3AAWG and (for all its faults)
>> ICANN, both of which have way more women in leadership roles than we do.

Harkins replied:

> 1. who is instigating this whole thing? Notice how she doesn't have a 
> corporate funder? (unless there's some connection in the NGO money 
> laundering complex, and please disclose if so).