- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:23:45 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Sergey Konstantinov <twirl@yandex-team.ru>
- CC: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
I think the rule was put in without a lot of thought. The rationale, that no matter how well-intentioned employees are imbued with their employers' viewpoint, is normally a reason for avoiding "packing the slate". However, two factors mitigate: 1) Someone switching jobs to a new company is LEAST likely to steep in their employer's mindset in their first six months or year. So the conflict argument makes least sense. 2) The real needs for diversity would be better met if there were more diversity of industry or product-type.
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