Tag membership question

Am I right in thinking that all members of the TAG are now residents of North America?

If so, does the TAG feel that this may compromise their ability or credability to architect 
a "World Wide" Web to some degree? Or, as a lesser question, does the TAG feel they
are actively encouraging and perpetuating a centre-periphery divide between dominant 
regions and dominated regions? 

Will the TAG consider altering its membership rules to encourage diversity?

A simple measure might be to reserve one of the voted positions for candidates who
are different from the other candidates. (For example, there could be a list drawn up:
if all TAG members are anglo, native-English-speaking, able-bodied men resident in 
North America and brought up in a Christian (or post-Christian) culture, and educated 
at a Western university, and working for an organization headquartered in North America, 
that one board position should be restricted to people who differ in at least three of these 
qualitities.)

And to provide suitable arrangements for getting to face-to-face meetings, etc.  

Please be assured, I am not raising this issue as any kind of criticism of the current TAG,
nor as a criticism of any specific decisions or issues, and certainly not as some kind of
anti-Americanism in view of the times, nor any criticism of that class of person (I am 
more-or-less in the same category!)  It is just a question of process which I believe
needs to be examined thoughtfully from time-to-time. 

I would not consider this to be an "affirmative action" request, in that conservatives
may consider that anyone can reach the top without special assistance. However, 
birth, residency, education, employment, etc. in the English-speaking West is not necessarily
"the top".

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

Received on Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:30:13 UTC