<p dir="ltr">Not sure he is forum conveniens for harassment at all. I think we need a separate body</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 18, 2016 1:58 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18-Mar-2016, at 1:32 PM, Padmini <<a href="mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdmnbaruah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Or to just have a pool of five members, standard practice.</span></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Which is of course fine - as a diversity committee. An ombudsman on theo ther hand serves as an ultimate mediation authority - so there is ideally just one such individual, who is expected to be appropriately sensitive to such issues.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>suresh</div></div></blockquote></div>