If I look around me, I see young people developing PHP, AJAX, … almost all of this is not handled in IETF. If I look at company valuations recently, there are at the same "level" in the stack: i.e. web apps. So I guess the plumbers are getting old, but the designers are younger and not here.
Marc. Le 2012-04-27 à 11:08, Mary Barnes a écrit : > Personally, I think that may depend upon the Area in which you are active. > The RAI area from my perspective has a bunch of youngsters - mid-late 20s & > 30s. And, I'm not as old as some of you all ;) > > Personally, I think IETF has far more of an issue when it comes to cultural > and gender diversity than it does with not having enough younger folks. This > is particularly visible in the leadership. > > Regards, > Mary. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > A question arose on the RFC-interest list, I observed that 20 years > ago I was one of the youngest IETF participants and 20 years later > that still seems to be the case. > > I see some grad students and some postdocs in their 20s but not as > many as I think there should be. By now at least a third of the > organization should be younger than me, preferably half. That is > certainly not what I see when I attend IETFs. And yes, the lack of > women is also highly noticeable. > > If this is the case it should worry us greatly. But first I think we > need to determine if it is the case or not. I suggest an optional > demographic survey of participants in the next IETF meeting to be > repeated at regular intervals (no more than 5 years apart). > > People can argue about process, RFC formats and governance but it > should be beyond argument that any institution that cannot recruit > younger members is going to die. > > -- > Website: http://hallambaker.com/ >
