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Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-15 08:47:11
On 15-jul-2006, at 17:00, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:

In terms of image, I tend to think that it would indeed help the IETF to have meetings outside the Northern America and European regions. It is not so much about spreading the Internet gospel - others do it better -
although it would help.  It is more in terms of interacting with the
local community  to find out  what they expect to come out  of a
standardization process.

I don't see how some 1300 engineers running around who are more than busy enough with technical work and the endless IETF process stuff (was it just me or was the difference between the "administrative" and "technical" plenaries especially hard to determine this time?) helps a community found out what to expect from a standardization process. A much, MUCH smaller number of engineers taking the time to do this specific job would be much more effective and efficient than having all IETF attendees incur extra travel time/costs and other inconveniences.

The hypothesis by which whatever is good for
the Northern hemisphere is automatically fine for the rest of the world
seems slightly colonialist to me.

If you remove the northern hemisphere there isn't much inhabited world left.

I don't think the problems of the developing world can be solved through protocol standardization... Being able to reuse protocols designed and standardized elsewhere allows these parts of the world to focus on other problems.

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