Subject: [IRTF-Announce] Fwd: RFC 7704 on An IETF with Much Diversity and Professional Conduct

From: "Eggert, Lars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 08:17:21 +0000

Of course this is relevant to the IRTF as well.

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> Date: December 1, 2015 at 2:53:33 GMT+1
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> Subject: RFC 7704 on An IETF with Much Diversity and Professional Conduct
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>       RFC 7704
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>       Title:      An IETF with Much Diversity
>                   and Professional Conduct
>       Author:     D. Crocker, N. Clark
>       Status:     Informational
>       Stream:     Independent
>       Date:       November 2015
>       Mailbox:    [email-masked],
>                   [email-masked]
>       Pages:      18
>       Characters: 41359
>       Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
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>       I-D Tag:    draft-crocker-diversity-conduct-06.txt
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>       URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7704
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>       DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7704
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> The process of producing today's Internet technologies through a
> culture of open participation and diverse collaboration has proved
> strikingly efficient and effective, and it is distinctive among
> standards organizations.  During the early years of the IETF and its
> antecedent, participation was almost entirely composed of a small
> group of well-funded, American, white, male technicians,
> demonstrating a distinctive and challenging group dynamic, both in
> management and in personal interactions.  In the case of the IETF,
> interaction style can often contain singularly aggressive behavior,
> often including singularly hostile tone and content.  Groups with
> greater diversity make better decisions.  Obtaining meaningful
> diversity requires more than generic good will and statements of
> principle.  Many different behaviors can serve to reduce participant
> diversity or participation diversity.  This document discusses IETF
> participation in terms of the nature of diversity and practical
> issues that can increase or decrease it.  The document represents the
> authors' assessments and recommendations, following general
> discussions of the issues in the IETF.
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