[NCSG-Discuss] On Diversity and Discrimination

[Dan Krimm]

Since ICANN policy making is about *user* stakeholders among others, and
NCSG started out as NCUC (user constituency), and even NPOC is an
institutional user constituency, while there is certainly a technical
focus of policy making here due to the inherent subject matter and
jurisdiction, is it not at all limited to developers or platforms.

Users have all sorts of various experiences and needs that may interface
with technical issues but are not limited to them.  This is why
non-technical aspects of user experience are important, and diversity of
that experience is important.  It's not platform diversity that is at
stake, it's usage diversity, which may extend to different usage
experiences among different demographics.

Dan


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On Fri, February 1, 2013 7:20 am, Marc Perkel wrote:
> In the tech world I always though diversity meant Apple vs. Windows vs.
> Linux. Firefox vs. Explorer. Nano vs. VI.
>
> As to religion - I'm a Realist. I believe in everything that is real and
> disbelieve everything that isn't real. In fact I own a registered
> trademark on the word "REALITY". And yes - we Atheist/Humanist/Realists
> are the oppressed minority and therefore we add diversity.
>
> On 1/31/2013 11:26 PM, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
>> Marc,
>>
>> Diversity is indeed a difficult subject but the difficulty of getting it
>> perfect should not prevent us from making efforts where it is feasible.
>>
>> The questions of religion and political viewpoint are some of the
>> thorniest
>> ones, since there is dispute about how much religion and political
>> viewpoint
>> are "inherited" and how much are "by choice". Of course race is also
>> socially
>> defined and dependent on geography and time period (there was a recent
>> article on how "Latinos" in the USA may soon come to be viewed as
>> "White" in
>> much the same way that Jews are now mostly so-regarded despite
>> historically
>> being a significantly oppressed group.
>>
>> As we're both variants of atheist/humanist, I'm not sure how productive
>> a
>> discussion between us on the status of religion could be.
>>
>>
>