On Apr 18, 2013, at 17:17, "Dan Harkins" <dharkins(_at_)lounge(_dot_)org> wrote:
Why is this a problem?
I think you are more likely to ask this question if you think that if it is a
"problem", then we *have* to "solve" it, e.g. by shooting enough of the white
male people in the IETF that the numbers balance.
It is not that kind of "problem". It is, however, a situation that a sizable
part of the community have experience with. The experience that, if you find
ways to improve diversity where the cure is *not* worse than the ailment, the
quality of the work actually improves from that.
You may simply not have that experience -- it wouldn't surprise me, as
differences in personal experience are usually the most important reason why
people incessantly argue.
Grüße, Carsten