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Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 15:11:14
On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
On 30 aug 2010, at 21.57, Olaf Kolkman wrote:

If you want to be fair to the individual participants you have to optimize 
in such a way that attending 6 meetings costs the same for every individual 
that regularly attends the IETF. Obviously one can only approximate that by 
putting fairly large error bars on the costs but isn't the X-Y-Z 
distribution where X= approx Y= approx Z  the closest optimum? (or finding 
one place that sucks equally for everybody)

I agree with this finding.

It seems to me that a process like that would tend to lead
to incorrect results.  There's already bias in the population
of meeting attendees - do you, and, if so, how do you account
for people who are already not attending because of costs?  
And "region" can be tricky and misleading, and it's hard to
know how to account for corner cases.  I'm in the United States
but travel from interior Alaska has very little in common with
travel from NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.

I think it's very difficult to find really great meeting 
facilities as it is, and it seems to me that that should be
the primary focus.

Melinda

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