On 8/6/2010 1:44 PM, Bob Hinden wrote:
During my IAOC chair plenary talk at IETF78 (slides are in the proceedings) I
asked a question about continuing the current meeting policy (3 in North
...
Bob,
These numbers probably need to be correlated with the venue of each meeting.
One would expect higher Asian attendance at an Asian venue, and so forth.
Controlling for venue could produce a very different interpretation of the numbers.
More substantively I heard someone ask a particularly useful question that is,
unfortunately, challenging to answer: Namely, what is the distribution among
the folks who are doing primary work. That is, what is the distribution among
IETF management, working group chairs and authors? (There are serious workers
who are not among this set and should also be counted, but I've no idea how to
label and include them in this subset analysis.)
Meetings are subject to a substantial spike in local attendance. These folk
are, of course, quite welcome, but they typically do not contribute much to the
actual work of the IETF.
Because the primary goal of an IETF meeting is to get work done, knowing the
distribution of workers might inform efforts to choose venues.
To my knowledge, nothing is recorded that makes this analysis straightforward.
My impression is that perhaps 1/4-1/3 of the attendees are long-term IETF
workers who will go anywhere, with perhaps 1/3-1/2 being much more recent repeat
attendees. Attending multiple meetings is a good indicator of some involvement
-- since that's the criterion for Nomcom participation -- but it's probably only
a moderate predictor.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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