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On 7 Jun 2017, at 9:48 AM, William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 11:00 AM, John Curran <span dir="ltr" class="">
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<div class="">Diversity relates to the variety of experiences, history, and backgrounds</div>
<div class="">who will serve on the Board (or the AC, or any other body for that matter)</div>
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<div class="">Respectfully, this is an impossibly subjective standard on which to hang a credible decision making process. Pending an objective standard of diversity accepted by the existing board, I believe the question of enlarging the board should halt.
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<div> To some extent, the Board has ramped up its discussion of diversity as a result</div>
<div> of community-expressed interest in the topic (e.g. as raised from the floor at the</div>
<div> recent ARIN meetings...) I do not recall any objective standard of diversity having</div>
<div> been suggested, but given that the Board is trying to be responsive to community </div>
<div> input, perhaps the Board should hear more from the community on what objective </div>
<div> standard of diversity it feels would be appropriate. Do you have a specific standard </div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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