The question should be asked if participation would pick up if we went to latin
america.
Also given the political situation a trip to Brazil might pre-empt some issues.
If the timing of the approch was right (ie when the olympic bidding round is at
its peak if Rio rebids) the authorities could be very obliging.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Scott W Brim
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; dassa(_at_)dhs(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Meetings in other regions
The IETF should indeed meet where our participants come from.
That was my initial comment (from the mike) on "are we from
Latin America, Africa, or Antarctica?" I think that remains
to be shown.
That said, I'll remind you of the demographics of this
particular meeting, working from memory from the slide Brian
showed Wednesday evening. It looked to me like this meeting
was a tad less than half from North America, perhaps 20% from
Japan and China, and most of the rest from Europe. That
argues for roughly half of our meetings being in North
America, a meeting every other year in Asia, and the rest in
Europe. What Brian then has to ask is "what are the trend
lines". My understanding from his behavior (we haven't
actually had this
conversation) is that he thinks we are trending towards being
roughly equally from those regions, and therefore is trying
to distribute meetings roughly evenly among them.
On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Scott W Brim wrote:
On 07/14/2006 10:01 AM, Fred Baker allegedly wrote:
Once upon a time,
the guideline I followed was that about 1/6 of the IETF was from
Europe, a smattering was from elsewhere, and the lion's share was
from the US, so I scheduled a meeting every other year in
Europe, the
odd one in random places, and the lion's share in the US. Those
statistics are essentially meaningless now.
Why are they meaningless? The IETF should overwhelmingly
meet where
the participants are, wherever that might be. I still like your
algorithm.
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