On more reason to make sure that we make to as many continents as possible,
so we keep the balance among more people being able to participate from
different regions, w/o always needing to travel for two days almost the same
folks.
Regards,
Jordi
De: Russ White <riw(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
Responder a: <riw(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
Fecha: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:05:15 -0400
Para: Pekka Savola <pekkas(_at_)netcore(_dot_)fi>
CC: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi(_dot_)palet(_at_)consulintel(_dot_)es>,
<ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Asunto: Re: Meetings in other regions
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Another point to consider is "reachability." While some folks don't mind
flying two days in each direction to get to some location or another, I
generally consider a good balance between time and cost to be more
important than pure monetary considerations.
For instance, I would consider Latin America, but I generally don't
attend Japan/Korea/etc, just due to time in flight constraints. Someone
in Europe might consider Sand Diego a similar issue (where Africa might
be easier to get to than Sand Diego).
Anyway, just another consideration to think about. It's not always a
pure money issue.
:-)
Russ
Pekka Savola wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
Just to give some extra *valuable* info about my comment in the plenary.
1) Meetings cost money. Doing meetings in Latin America/Caribbean and
Africa, will save a lot of cost to IETF as an organization.
....
5) There have been already some offers to sponsor meetings there (even
if I
believe the sponsorship should be changed from what we have now, but
this is
a different topic).
No doubt some parts of such a meeting cost would be cheaper. Actually
meetings don't "cost" IETF money though, as Ray's slides showed, meeting
revenues are higher expenses. Perhaps the bottom line (facilities cost,
food/beverages, sponsorship, hosting expenses, network connectivity,
etc.) has not been significantly different from a more traditional and
less risky location or logistics haven't worked out.
Personally, I have no particular desire to meet in Africa or Latin
America/Caribbean but if the IAOC feels that makes a significant
difference financially I'd have no problem with it. They've been chosen
to make that call so that we don't need to worry about it.
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