Brian,
Unfortunately, that won't help us broaden IETF participation to bring
in people from countries that currently don't have many participants.
On the
contrary, it will tend to freeze our participation profile where it is
today. On a long term basis, that would not be good for the IETF, IMHO.
Worrying about expanding the diversity of participation in IETF meetings
made quite a lot of sense when the IETF was initially expanding, along
with global adoption of the Internet's technology.
It is far less clear why that is a significant factor in current venue
choices.
Productivity of working groups would seem to be far, far more important.
An implication of this is that a venue which gets lots of local
participation, but which winds up getting LESS participation among the
primary contributors to working groups, would be a poor choice.
Statistics about attendance seem to focus on total numbers, rather than
participation by primary contributors.
d/
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