Hi Stewart,
On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Stewart Bryant <stbryant(_at_)cisco(_dot_)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.
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.
I am not suggesting that we start collecting or publishing this information,
just saying that it makes it hard to tell whether our leadership is reasonably
representative of the community in some of these areas.
Also, I think there are some area where diversity is important to the IETF that
are not on this list, like geographic location, corporate affiliation and
industry segment (vendor, operator, researcher, etc.).
Margaret